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two and twenty day of September, 1597." To show 

 that this was a person of no ordinary mark as a 

 servant, there is a colophon of a hand to point the 

 spot in the vermillioned parchment, though there is no 

 such embellishment to denote the burial of a fellow- 

 servant, Raphe Woolven, who died in 1 596. So much 

 has been written about the ancestry of Pope that it is 

 hazardous to say more than that his grandfather 

 appears to have been a clergyman in Hampshire,* 

 who would be glad, doubtless (as a Vicar of Harting, 

 John Newlyn, a century after), to place his daughter 

 in the service of so distinguished a family as the 

 Carylls, and that this domestic bond of fealty between 

 lord and servant, the strength of which we cannot in 

 these days measure, would account for the mutual 

 accounts of debtor and creditor which existed between 

 Pope and John Caryll and their fathers before them.f 

 The family of Caryll (Carrell, Carrill, Caryl, monu- 

 ment of Forde, Harting Church) came here frojn 

 Warnham. I am in this particular much indebted to 

 the patient research of the late William Tanner, Esq., 

 of Rye, whose marriage with Anna, second daughter 

 of William Curtis, Esq., of Harting, connected him, 

 during his short but active life, with our village. Mr. 

 Tanner, at my request, made the origin of the Caryll 

 family his particular study ; and, fortunately, from a 

 paper found amongst his detached MSS., which cover a 

 very interesting and wide field of observation, I am able 

 to quote what seems to be his conclusion. Noting that 



* "Athenaeum," 1857, p. 145 1. Mr. Potenger, M.P. for Reading, 

 who claimed kindred with Pope, said, " Mr. Pope's grandfather 

 was a clergyman of the Church of England in Hampshire." 

 Register of Thruxton, near Andover, Hants, Feb. 21, 1645 : 

 "Alexander Pope, minister of Thruxton, was buried." Hunter, too, 

 says that the Rev. A Pope of Thruxton was Pope's grandfather. 



f The servants of Sir Edward Caryll usually bore good names. 

 Thus, " Tutcher Charleton and Martha Chiverell, servants to Sir 

 Edward Carrell, knight of Hartinge ; they were married 6 Aug., 

 1609." Another is Thomas Apslye, servant to Sir Thomas 

 Carrell, 1610. 



