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(2 Elizas.) he gave Thomas and Constance Ryche (n6e 

 Windsor) and Sir John Hussey 1,320 f r their shares 

 in the manors of Harting and Nutborne. The document 

 in which this appears is at the Record Office, and the 

 transcriber, H. Goldsmith, Esq., assures me that he 

 never copied one of greater interest. The three several 

 sums paid by Edmond Forde amount to a total of 

 3,400, which, if adjusted to its present value by a 

 multiple of 15, would represent 48,000 of our money. 

 Not less than 40,000 of this would seem to have 

 been paid for the manors of West, South, and East 

 Harting : and at the same time the purchaser pleads 

 that with Nutborne they are one and the same estate, 

 held under John Appesley, Esq., as of his manor of 

 Walderton, and are distinct from the manor of Durford, 

 granted by the Crown on the suppression of monas- 

 teries to Lord Fitzwilliam. The latter manor was 

 transmitted by Lord Fitzwilliam to the Mervyns, and 

 thence to the families of Bettsworth and Ridge. In 

 the grant to Lord Fitzwilliam, 29 Hen. VIII., and in 

 the court rolls of Queen Mary's reign, Durford and 

 Rogate are loosely styled as " Harting manor ; " and 

 hence, probably, Ford was glad to use Nutborne as a 

 screen to show that he was the real possessor of the 

 ancient manors of Harting. 



The sums paid by Edmond Forde for the Harting 

 lands certainly seem to have been exceptionally high. 

 He would purchase first the chief interest, the demesne 

 and mansion of Harting Place, which was the capital 

 seat of the West Harting manor, from Henry and 

 Elinor Windsor, the eldest representatives of the 

 Hussey, and then would have to buy up collateral 

 interests in the neighbourhood at a still higher rate. 

 At this time the chief house connected with East 

 Harting was at East Harting itself: for though there 

 was an ancient park at Up Park, as we have seen, so 

 early as the I4th Century (and there must have been a 

 considerable house there), yet there can have been no 



