HISTORY OF HARTING. 1 09 



mark of royal favour, James created the exile Secretary 

 a Baron, by the style of Lord Durford. It is probable 

 that John Caryll chose this title partly as not clashing 

 with the pretensions of the other Harting manor, and 

 partly from veneration for the old monastery of Dur- 

 ford and its saints. It is curious that at Durford 

 House at the present time, there is the only local 

 record of a member of the Caryll family now in ex- 

 istence, the Portrait of Peter ("Father Alexis") Caryll,* 

 younger brother of the Secretary. 



In 1696 William III. discovered that John Lord 

 Caryll was plotting his life, and as this fact cancelled 

 all former lenity, the West Harting estates were at 

 once confiscated and given to Lord Cutts, a soldier of 

 distinction and high command at the Boyne and 

 Steinkirk (1693), whence "he hobbled home on crutches 

 to his rich and pining wife." He was nicknamed Jack 

 Cutts "the Salamander," and was the soul of every 

 forlorn hope. His greatest distinctions were gained at 

 the head of the British Grenadiers at Namur and 

 Venloo, and when he led the cavalry and opened the 

 Battle of Blenheim.! 



Luttrell, under date 23rd May, 1696, writes: "On 

 Monday Lord Cutts goes to take possession of Mr. 

 Caryll's estate in Sussex (Secretary to the late Queen), 

 which his Majesty permitted him to enjoy, tho' beyond 



Baptized at Harting, 28th October, 1631. 



t (Wyon's " Queen Anne.") At Venloo the Guards, headed by 

 Cutts, who had been the soul of every forlorn hope during ten 

 years, rushed up the glacis, nth Sep., 1702. 



The division under Lord Cutts first crossed the Nebel at Blen- 

 heim, when Lord Rowe was killed, 1704. Lumley, to whom Cutts 

 appealed for succour, sent across the Nebel help ; but the contest 

 was too unequal, and the Allied horse fell back to edge of a 

 rivulet (p. 262). 



In a debate in Parliament against occasional nonconformity 

 "A division between our two houses at this moment," urged Cutts, 

 who had returned from abroad with a halo of glory surrounding 

 him only inferior to Marlborough's, "would be as great an ad- 

 vantage to the French king as we won from him at Blenheim." 



