Join us at Cowdray Hall for a talk by Dr Caroline Adams on Elizabeth I’s only visit to West Sussex. In 1591 Elizabeth I’s summer progress brought her south through Surrey into West Sussex, stopping at Cowdray for a week and the City of Chichester for several days. What happened, and what was it like for her hosts and the people on her progress?

Dr Caroline Adams is a freelance archivist, palaeographer and historian. She teaches palaeography online, and runs a research business, Key to the Past, regularly carrying out house histories and local history research for clients and architects. She holds a PhD on the significance of Elizabeth I’s progress in Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey in 1591. Until 2014 she was Senior Archivist at West Sussex Record Office. Teas and coffee will be available before the talk. Please be as prompt as possible as the talk will begin shortly after 7pm.

Doors Open: 6:30pm

Location: Cowdray Hall, Park Way, Easebourne, Midhurst  (GU29 0AW)

The Cowdray Heritage Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales (1071069) and a Limited Company (03472093) Registered office address: Cowdray Estate Office, Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 0AQ

R4X6X5 The great court at Cowdray. Grimm’s Sussex Drawings. 1782. A watercolour view of the west side of the great court at Cowdray in (West) Sussex drawn by S.H. Grimm Image taken from Grimm’s Sussex Drawings. Originally published/produced in 1782. . Source: Add. 5675, f.13. (19). Language: English. Author: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus.

P5XJXW English: Cowdray f. 9 (no. 15) . View of the west front of Cowdray in West Sussex . 1782. Samuel Hieronymus Grimm  (1733?1794)   Description Swiss painter and poet Date of birth/death 18 January 1733 14 April 1794 Location of birth/death Burgdorf London Work location Bern; France;  United Kingdom Authority control : Q2218363 VIAF:15042022 ISNI:0000 0000 6660 5644 ULAN:500022698 LCCN:nr2002011693 Oxford Dict.:11635 WorldCat 387 Cowdray by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm 1782