Wakehurst Place in the mid-Sussex Weald, associated with the recusant Royalist Culpeper family, served as a refuge for Royalist sympathisers in Sussex during the Civil War. The Parliamentary county committee moved against recusant landowners whose houses sheltered Royalists and collected sequestration revenues.
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