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the two great families of Ford and Caryll. Their son 

 was Sir Edward Ford, who, according to Camden and 

 Coxe, was born at Up Park, but this seems doubtful. 



Sir Francis Fortescue died 1586, the same year as 

 Sir Philip Sidney ; and this coincidence seems to have 

 given rise to Dalloway's mistake that the illustrious 

 hero of Zutphen died possessed of the manors of South 

 and West Harting, which I have corrected in the 

 "Athenaeum " of July 22, 1876. Ample as the Sussex 

 possessions of Sidney were, they did not extend so far 

 west as our Ultima Thule of the county. The nearest 

 approach that Harting ever made to the great Sir 

 Philip Sidney was when one Henry Burch christened 

 his daughter " Walsingambe " in honour, perhaps of 

 Sidney's wife, 5th June, 1608. The three sons of 

 Francis Fortescue's large but sickly family having died 

 without issue,* the West Harting estate was sold to 

 Sir Edward Caryll (son of John Caryll of Warnham, 

 the attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster to Queen 

 Elizabeth, noted by Fuller as a worthy of Sussex, and 

 knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Cowdray in 1584). 

 Sir Edward Caryll was resident in Harting in the 

 spring of 1596, as the registers show. 



Thus the noble but unfortunate family of Carylls 

 came here,f lasting from about the accession of James I. 

 to the accession of George III. (in fact, not long after 

 Culloden), coeval with and ruined by the Stuarts and 

 Pretenders. It is remarkable that the second quotation 

 of the name of Caryll in the Harting Registers contains 

 a clue to the friendship, almost like a feudal tie 

 between lord and dependant, which existed between 

 one of this family in after times and Alexander Pope, 

 the poet. Year 1597. " Item, Mercie Pope, servant to 

 Edward Carell, of Hartinge, Esquiar, was buried the 



* Burrell MSS. 



t Sir Edward and John Carylls, grantees of West Harting, in 

 cap. 7, Jas. I. Carylls, grantees of Harting, circa 29 Eliz. 

 Tanner MSS. 



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