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their devotion to their unfortunate king. Father and 

 son at Up Park, Sir William and Sir Edward Ford ; the 

 Carylls, father and son, at Harting Place, near the 

 Church ; and Major Cowper (who, according to Dallo- 

 way, fell afterwards fighting for the King when Crom- 

 well took Winchester Castle) at Ditcham, were our five 

 loyal squires, securing our east and west, and above all 

 the heights at Up Park on the south, for the king: and 

 Colonel Norton's dragoons would have had a hard 

 day's work before them, before they could have reached 

 the summit of the Harting hills. 



Before the month of December, 1643, was over, 

 however, the soldiers of Sir William Waller, " William 

 the Conqueror" he was now called, were successful 

 here as elsewhere. 



In the Caryll Correspondence it is expressly said 

 that the Rebels sacked Harting Place, the old man- 

 sion near the Church, and we learn from John Caryll's 

 pleading when he compounded and paid his fine to 

 Parliament at the end of the war, that South Harting 

 was made by Lord Hopton " a garrison for the king."* 

 There was a similar garrison for the king at Peters- 

 field,! probably at the Castle House. The Royalist 

 line of communication with Arundel had for its basis 

 Oxford and Winchester: Petersfield and Harting were 

 thus essential posts, that were fortified for the time. 

 Caryll's plea at the close of the civil war, already 

 quoted, shews this. He pleads, " That y r - Petitioner 

 being at his father s house, called Harting, in Sussex, 

 itf*- is in the midway direct from Winchester to A rundell, 

 and y e Kings forces having made a garrison in the said 

 house about December 1643, Sir Ralph Hopton coming 

 thither w th - part of his A rmye commanded yo r - pet r - to 

 attend him to Arundell, where he deteyned yo r - pet r - 

 untill y e castell was taken by Sir William Waller." J 



Royalist Compositions, Vol. II., p. 240. Record Office. 



t " Perfect Diurnall," Saturday, Dec. 16, 1643. 

 % Hopton hung six persons at Salisbury for not joining him. 



