HO HISTORY OF HARTING. 



the sea, till 'twas discovered he gave Sir Geo. Barclay 

 ;8oo to buy horses and arms, &c., in order to assassinate 

 him." (i.e., William III.)* Luttrell, who represents the 

 gossip of London at the time, adds in another place f 

 that the West Harting estate was valued at 2000 

 a-year, but this puts it four times too high. Six years 

 before this the Secretary's nephew and heir, John 

 Caryll, from West Grinstead, had settled, apparently 

 as his uncle's agent and receiver, at Lady Holt in 

 1689. The accounts of the year 1694 are in his own 

 handwriting, and the sum of all his accounts for the 

 year is ,366 : 2 : o. In 1720, when he had improved 

 the property, we have the following return : 



1720. How my lands were rated to the Land 

 Tax : 



Lady Holt Park and Harehurst (now Harris 



Wood 



Harting Pond 9 



West Harting Tythes 107 



Luff's Farm 175, and Foxcombe 30, in all 205 



3781 



Further, to show that Luttrell's valuation of West 

 Harting at .2000 a-year is beside the mark, the most 

 authentic document must be quoted : 



" The King (William III.) on the 29th July, 1696, 

 grants to John Lord Cutts, Baron of Gowran, Ireland, 

 the manor of West Harting, county Sussex. Capital 

 messuage called ' Harting Place,' of annual value of 

 40 shillings ; a dovecote, garden, and orchard thereto 

 pertaining in co. Sussex, annual value 20 shillings. 

 Capital messuage called ' Lady Holt ; ' a stable, 

 orchard, pasture, or park, called Lady Holt Park, con- 

 taining 150 acres, value 1$ per annum ; 120 acres of 



6 Narcissus Luttrell, " State Affairs," iv., 62. f Ib., iv. 51. 

 \ Account Book of Jo. Caryll, Esq., of Lady Holt, and lord 

 of the manor of West Harting, 1694 1716. 



