54 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



house on the Downs worthy of being called a mansion 

 till at least after the time of Queen Elizabeth. 



In 1440 Sir Henry Hussey's trustees leased to 

 Robert Legge, of London, draper (20 Nov., 19 Hen. 

 VI.), Up Parke and Down Parke, but there is no 

 mention of any messuage of note at the former place. 

 (West Harting Leager.) Up Park and Lady Holt 

 were farmed as ordinary separate sheep-farms to near 

 1600. See Special Commissions of Sussex. 33 Elizae. 

 (1591), No. 2321 : "John Smyth, farmer of Up Park, 

 for p te - of his rent, which he deteyneth by order given 

 to him by the Officers of her Ma ties - Courte of Wardes 

 and Liveryes (during the nonage of Sir Wm. Ford, 

 then 17 years of age), to be there answered to her 

 Highnes' use, vi 1 - xiii s - viii d - Stephen Hayward, for 

 the half-yere's rent of certain land pcell. of the Lady 

 Holt, late in his occupation, due Michaelmas last, 

 xxxiii 5 - iiii d -" So also in 1624, "Wm. Broman, the 

 sonne of John and Dorithy Broman, dwelling at *Up 

 Park, bapt. Aug. 5, 1624." (Harting Register.) 



On the other hand, Sir William Ford, 1643, as we 

 shall see, inhabited Up Park, and Ford Lord Grey, in 

 his " Secret History of the Rye House Plot," 1685, 

 speaks about his house in Sussex, evidently Up Park, 

 where the Duke of Monmouth was " to be privately a 

 week before the rising;" and, in 1682, Lady Berkeley 

 gives evidence at the Court of Queen's Bench : " My 

 Lord Grey's wife, my daughter Grey coming down to 

 Durdant's (Lord Berkeley's house near Epsom), he (i.e. 

 Lord Grey) was to go to his own house at Up Park 

 in Sussex, and thence to call at Durdant's again, 

 believing that he was not able to go to Up Park in one 

 day from London." The present Up Park was built 

 in 1686. My conclusion is, that between 1624 and 

 1643 the chief branch of the Ford family went and 

 lived at Up Park. There is a deed at Up Park, Mr. 

 Weaver tells me, dated 1654, signed by Sir Edward 

 Ford and Ralph Grey, of East Harting, his son-in-law, 



