Anne Tree, Thomas Dunngate and John Forman were burned as Martyrs on 18 July 1556 because they would not renounce the Protestant Faith.

The inscribed slabs in the churchyard of St. Swithuns are in fact only memorial stones and the ashes of the Martys do not lie beneath.

It is a mystery as to where the actual remains are, although it is thought that they are somewhere in the churchyard.

There are some ashes under the slabs, but these were in fact dug up in the High Street early this century.

People had been finding ashes as far back as the beginning of the 19th Century and each find gave rise to the claim that these were the remains of the martyrs.

Clearly this was not so, and Lady Musgrave, who was somewhat more pious, arranged for the memorial slabs to be laid and inscribed.

Anne Tree, Thomas Dungate and John Forman were burned as heretics and not witches.

There is no doubt that the the exact spot of the burning was in the High Street, outside of what is now Broadley Brothers, and that there were three separate stakes.

The Latin inscription on the Memorial in St. Swithun's Churchyard records that they were "Faithful unto death".

Anne Tree's granddaughter of the same name resided in East Grinstead and married Mr. Edmund Ellis.

There were Dungates in East Grinstead 100 years later, as shown by the records of special marriage licenses granted in the Lewes registry.

In a deed dated April 16th 1609, Stephen Dungate appears as owner of land near Saint Hill, and as late as 1800 "Dungates Fields" were held with Hollybush and Standen on the Saint Hill Estate.