Fuller's Christmas Generousity

In keeping with the tradition that the local landed gentry and squires share their abundance with the poor at Christmas, Jack Fuller made the following acts of charity: 

Sussex Advertiser - December 25, 1815

               LEWES, DEC. 25, 1815.

This being the day on which the Nativity of

our blessed Saviour is celebrated we hope the

deserving poor, throughout the United King-

dom, will be made partakers of the grand Fes-

tival, through the bounty of their more fortu-

nate neighbours

One day last week, two fat oxen were slaugh-

tered, by order of Sir Godfrey Webster, and,

with a proportionate quantity of bread, distribu-

ted to the poor of Battle, that they might enjoy,

in plentitude, the comfort of a Christmas din-

ner.

John Fuller, Esq. of Rosehill, has also dis-

pensed his Christmas bounty in beef and bread,

to the poor of the parish of Brightling; to

which the principal inhabitants added a very

liberal subscription.

Sussex Advertiser - December 29, 1823

Last Thursday, being Christmas-day, the same

was observed here with all the solemnity of the

Sabbath.  In the afternoon the tables of hospi-

tality were smoaking (sic)with the good old English

fare - Roast Beef and Plum-pudding.

     John Fuller, Esq.  of Rose-Hill, and the prin-

cipal inhabitants of Brightling; gave beef and

bread on Wednesday last, to their poorer neigh-

bours for Christmas-day's dinner; and at the same

time distributed the following rewards:                 

	£  s  d
To William Russell for having in 1823 supported his family with the smallest proportionate assistance from the Over-seer	2  0  0
To Thomas Perry, as the next person who had received the smallest assistance	1   0   0
To George Freeland, for having lived ten years in one service	1   0   0
To Thomas Veness, for living nine years in one service	0  10  0
To Judith Clapson, for having lived fifteen years in one service	1   0  0
To Susanna Pitt, for living nine years in one service	0  10  0

Rewards like the above, cannot fail of giving

a stimulus to the industry and morality, and we feel

pleasure in noticing the circumstances, as an exam-

ple worthy of imitation.

Sussex Advertiser - December 29, 1828

John Fuller, Esq. we are happy to learn, is in

excellent health, enjoying his Christmas at Rose-

Hill; and with is accustomed liberality ordered

a hundred stones of good beef to be distributed

among the poor of the parish of Brightling, for

their dinner on Christmas-day.

Sussex Advertiser - January 28 1833

John Fuller, Esq., of Rose Hill, in addition to his cus-

tomary donation of Christmas beef to the poor of Bright-

ling, is now distributing amongst them the very seasonable

and acceptable present of a large quantity of blankets.