It was on Henfield common that Mr.Borrer once saw fourteen Golden Orioles on a thorn bush.

Adventures are to the adventurous, birds to the ornithologist; most of us have never succeeded in seeing even one Oriole.
[Sidenote: STAPLETON'S MERITS] William Borrer, the botanist, uncle of the ornithologist, was born in Henfield and is buried there.

In his Henfield garden, in 1860, as many as 6,600 varieties of plants were growing.

Beyond a small memoir on Lichens, written in conjunction with Dawson Turner, he left no book.
Another illustrious son of Henfield was Dr.Thomas Stapleton, once Canon of Chichester and one of the founders of the Catholic College of Douay, of whom it was written, somewhat ambiguously, that he "was a man of mild demeanour and unsuspected integrity." Fuller has him characteristically touched off in the _Worthies_:--"He was bred in New Colledge in Oxford, and then by the Bishop (Christopherson, as I take it) made Cannon of Chichester, which he quickly quitted in the first of Queen _Elizabeth_.
Flying beyond the Seas, he first fixed at _Douay_, and there commendably performed the office of _Catechist_, which he discharged to his commendation.
"Reader, pardon an Excursion caused by just _Grief_ and _Anger_.

Many, counting themselves Protestants in England, do slight and neglect that _Ordinance_ of _God_, by which their Religion was _set up_, and _gave Credit_ to it in the first _Reformation_; I mean, CATECHISING.