HISTORY OF HARTING. IOI 



fine, he was able to build. In 1685 the present Up 

 Park was built from the designs of Talmar, a pupil of 

 Inigo Jones. Its builder seemed as if he almost 

 wished to crown himself on Sussex soil, and to show 

 the Sussex militia that their prisoner had suffered little 

 at their hands. But whence came all the wealth for 

 such building ? Had it accrued during the absence of 

 the great Lord ? Did his wife's portion help him ? 



Under William III. Ford Lord Grey's tarnished 

 name was exchanged for the style of Earl of Tankerville 

 and Viscount Glendale. In 1696 the House of Lords 

 listened to his eloquence as he pleaded that William 

 was " rightful and lawful King of England : " the stress 

 of the debate being upon the word "lawful ;" and on 

 another occasion he spoke with his usual ability in 

 favour of disbanding the army. In 1696, when "his 

 constitution was so broken that he was fitter for flannel 

 and cushions than for a laborious office at Whitehall," 

 he was made Lord Privy Seal in Lord Godolphin's 

 ministry.* Macaulay shows that though there was 

 left upon the moral character of Lord Grey a stain at 

 which even libertines looked grave, so capricious was 

 public opinion, and so low the standard of morality in 

 those days, that no allusion was made to the vices and 

 misfortunes of the new Cabinet minister. " It is pro- 

 bable that his infirm health and his isolated position 

 were his protection. The chiefs of the opposition did 

 not fear him enough to hate him" says the historian, 

 adopting Martial's famous epigram, sometime applied 

 to Louis Napoleon when in power : 



" Vis quantum facias mali videre ? 

 Vir Justus, probus, innocens, timeris." 



" Would you the cause of all this hatred know ? 

 O spotless saint ! The dread of you's your woe." 



* Macaulay styles Lord Tankerville First " Lord of the 

 Treasury," but " Lord Privy Seal " is on his coffin, and so says 

 Smollett. Probably the two offices were held together. 



