82 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



and his kinsman, Captain Ford, were taken in arms 

 and marched off " in the bitter snow " to London 

 House. Poor John Caryll of Harting, "a Popish re- 

 cusant," was taken, together with two little land owners 

 of West Harting, Crasswell, or Crassweller, and Pay 

 of Upperton, among the " gentlemen that bore not 

 armes." Thus five luckless sons of Harting (including 

 the three squires) got into the clutches of the Parliament 

 as prisoners at the fall of Arundel. John Caryll paid 

 Sir William Waller at once 600 " for his peace," and 

 afterwards lent 500 to the Parliament towards sup- 

 pressing the rebellion in Ireland. He had to plead hard, 

 and at length (his petitions extend over 100 pages of 

 the Records) to be allowed these deductions in the fine 

 of 2980 that the Parliament set him in 1649. There is 

 evidence that Sir William Waller stood his friend and 

 acknowledged the receipt of the ,600 at Arundel. 

 Caryll pleaded that he was forced by Sir Ralph Hopton 

 to accompany him to Arundel, and yet that he had 

 been sequestered and imprisoned, that his estate at 

 Harting was entailed, and worth, after deductions, only 

 732 a year, and that " he had resolved to reconcile 

 himself unto the Protestant religion, which sithence he 

 hath really performed." He was allowed to pay his 

 fine in two parts, and discharged at once .1322 : 10 : o. 

 His voluminous petitions extend to December 2, 1651, 

 when he pleads, " Y r petitioner, by husbandry of 

 watering many grounds, hath very much improved the 

 sayd manor of Hartinge since his composition, and 

 desires the value of his estate to be certified as it was 

 at the date of composition." By this policy of delay 

 he would almost seem to have tided matters over till 

 the Restoration. His father, Sir John Caryll, did not 

 die till 1654. Nevertheless the fine actually paid 

 doubtless impoverished his estate. 



Parson Caryll, though a Protestant, seems to have 

 fared no better than his relations the squires. His 

 living was sequestered by Parliament, and he too had 



