HISTORY OF HARTING. /I 



Such were the palmy days of the Carylls. 



But the sky was soon overcast ; and (as if to throw 

 a shadow of coming sorrow over the village) in 1601, 

 about Michaelmas, a murder is recorded as having 

 taken place in the wildest part of the parish, the scene 

 a century afterwards of another murder, the memory 

 of which is still fresh. " 1601. Item this yeare about 

 the Feast day of St. Michaell th'archangell or shortly 

 after, the bones and apparell of John Roche of Est- 

 meane (East Meon), was founde in Hale wood (near 

 Lady Holt), within the parishe of Hartinge, which 

 John Roche was suspected to have been kylled there 

 by William Torner, who was hanged at the next 

 Assyse (assize) at Estgrinstead for the same facte, 

 and other roberyes. Also, the sayd bones weare 

 buryed in the place where they weare founde by the 

 appoyntment of the Crowner (Coroner)." (Harting 

 Register No. I.) 



In the troubles of Charles I. heavy times swept over 

 the lords of both East and West Harting. Cousins 

 as they were, Sir Edward Ford's mother being Anna 

 Caryll, they seem to have held together in politics. 



Parson Ralphe Deare, whose prim and puritanic 

 handwriting* is a marked feature of the venerable 

 register quoted above, dates the baptism of " Edward 

 the sonne of William Ford, of Harting, Esquiar," on 

 April 22, 1605. This was the future Sir Edward Ford, 

 whose eventful and honourable life lasted 65 years. 



He entered Trinity College, Oxford, as a Gentleman 

 Commoner about the year 1620, the year in which the 

 famous William Chillingworth obtained his scholarship 

 at that College. f Edward Ford did not take a degree, 



Examples of his precision : " Thomas Harding and Godly 

 Somer were joyned together in matrimonye the sixe and twenty 

 day of January, 1588 ; the man of Esborne, the woman of Hart- 

 inge." His own marriage " Item, Raphe Deare, of Hartinge, 

 and Alice Packe, of Rogat, were joyned together in the estate of 

 holy matrimony the twentie-seventh day of Januarie, 1604." 



t ChillingNvorth the divine, born at Oxford : Scholar of Trinity 



