80 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



provisions, and plundered the cottages of the villages 

 far and wide for bread. The enemy, having taken 

 their 300 prisoners at South Harting, proceeded to 

 sack Harting Place and the Church. 



John Caryll, Pope's friend, writes, Oct. 29, 1709, 

 that his father thought that their title-deeds were lost 

 in the time of the civil wars, when ' Harting House 

 (Harting Place) was plundered several times.'* Most 

 probably the ancient Church was denuded and ran- 

 sacked on these occasions, and turned into a stable 

 or hospital as the case might be. The Caryll monu- 

 ments could scarcely have escaped their first dese- 

 cration at this time. There are still local traces of 

 the fights. A cutting which crosses the two roads at 

 the foot of the warren near South Gardens is due in 

 popular belief to " Oliver," i.e. Waller's cavalry officer, 

 Colonel Norton. It is probable that this escarpment 

 formed part of the hasty intrenchments of Harting on 

 the north side, the shallow depth of which in most t 

 places was doubtless owing to the extreme rigour of' 

 the frost, which, according to Lord Clarendon, set in 

 early and held on for a long time. Traces of these 

 scratches in the ground to form lines may be traced 

 on the north side of Tarberry, on the western slope of 

 Bohemia Hill, at Upperton meadow, on the summit 

 of West Harting Down, and on the north side of 

 Up Park, under the Tower. The raised road between 

 Hemner and Tarberry is probably due to this time. 

 The "White Road" towards Chilgrove is trenched 

 at intervals of the ascent where it faces the north, 

 and small bastions for the use of such small cannon 

 as the " saker drakes " and " murderers " of the day. 

 At the summit of the " White Road " where it reaches 

 the downs, the trenches are more perceptible, and 

 close by, three mounds immediately facing the Up 

 Park palings, near the Two Beech Gate, are un- 



* Caryll Correspondence, Add 1 - 28, 227. Vol. I., p. 82. 



