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because their deaths had been largely forgotten and high churchmen were referring to the
Reformation and the deaths of these people as a mistake. Following the publications "anti-popish" demonstrations took place each year around 5 November. In 1868 a figure dressed as the "Bishop of Lewes" warned
132:. Although Lower is credited with publicising the Sussex Martyrs, he does not appear to have started the Bonfire Societies. His biography credits him with writing a note complaining of the excesses of the "Bonfire Boys", and he had himself been an active member of the Lewes New Temperance Society.
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A compendious history of Sussex: topographical, archæological & anecdotical. Containing an index to the first twenty volumes of the "Sussex archæological collections"
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Whittick, 'Hurdis, James Henry (1800–1857)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
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propagandist, Lower is believed to have started the "cult of the Sussex
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in 1865. Mercy Lower died in 1867. The widower married Sarah Scrase three years later after moving to
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