1759 HIS MOTHEE'S SETTLEMENT 105 



Miss Anne Holt shows that no property at all was 

 thereby settled by the former. 



The property which Gilbert White, the naturalist, 

 now (very partially, as will appear) inherited, came, 

 therefore, through his mother, who, subject to her 

 mother's (Mrs. Holt's) life interest therein, brought 

 into settlement 



1. A house and lands at Rogate, Surrey. 



2. Meadow land at Harting, Sussex, mortgaged 

 for £1,000. 



3. Other houses and lands at Harting. 



The above three properties were (besides the 

 mortgage for £1,000 secured on the second) subject 

 to charges amounting to £530, and an annuity for 

 life of £5. 



4. A messuage, lands, etc., containing sixty acres 

 in Harting. 



5. A house and land at Hawkley, Hants.* 



The fourth of these properties was settled (as 

 pin-money) on Miss Holt and her devisees or ap- 

 pointees, and in default of any devise or appointment, 

 on her heirs in fee-simple. Not many years after her 

 marriage she joined with her husband and mother in 

 selling this property, called the Nyewood (or New 

 Wood) fields, to her relation, the Earl of Tankerville, 



• It is impossible now to say what all these farms were let for, but the rent 

 produced by agricultural land in the eighteenth century was, until the long 

 war with France, very small indeed. One of them, " Woodhouse Farm," at 

 Harting, was let for £34 at this time. This seems to have been the only 

 farm which became Gilbert White's property, the others being sold to pay 

 the younger children's portions. 



