left them was soon spent; after which Leonard paid off his servants, and took to work diligently at his father's trade.

Saving a little money, he determined to go down into Sussex, where we shortly find him working the St.

Leonard's Forge, and afterwards the Tensley Forge near Crawley, and the Cowden Iron-works, which then bore a high reputation.
After forty years' labour, he accumulated a good fortune, which he left to his son of the same name, who went on iron-forging, and eventually became a county gentleman, owner of the house and estate of Crabbett near Worth, and Member of Parliament for East Grinstead.
Several of the new families, however, after occupying a high position in the county, again subsided into the labouring class, illustrating the Lancashire proverb of "Twice clogs, once boots," the sons squandering what the father's had gathered, and falling back into the ranks again.

Thus the great Fowles family of Riverhall disappeared altogether from Sussex.

One of them built the fine mansion of Riverhall, noble even in decay.