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and lying by the side of the corpse. Was this the 

 pipe with which he had consoled himself in the garret 

 at Amsterdam, and in the marshy wastes of Sedge- 

 moor ? 



CHAPTER V. 



THE CARYLLS OF WEST HARTING AND LADY HOLT. 

 JOHN, LORD CARYLL, SECRETARY. 



WHAT, in the mean time, was going on the other side 

 of the way, on the opposite side of the street of South 

 Harting, or, in other words, in the West Harting 

 Manor ? Full of historical interest as the eastern and 

 Protestant segment of the parish was in the latter 

 part of the sixteenth century, the western hemisphere, 

 which included the Church, and which, was under 

 Roman Catholic sway, could well match it in every 

 particular. One of its rulers was in high favour at 

 the Court of James II., both in England and in exile. 

 West Harting was confiscated by William III. ; it 

 was restored again to its owners ; when its captivity 

 was turned, it saw a great mansion, almost the rival 

 and twin sister of Up Park, sacred to the English 

 muse, rising in a new park of its own on the southern- 

 most point of its extensive range from Harting Coombe 

 and the intervening iron lands to the slopes of sunny 

 Lady Holt 



Few places are so rich in the highest literary asso- 

 ciations as West Harting. The whole estate was 

 handled at one time by Sir Richard Steele. In the 

 early part of the last century Lady Holt was the 

 country home of Alexander Pope, the summer retreat 

 of Gay ; while the Parsonage connected it with James 

 Bramston, and later still with William Collins. Nor 



