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during the time L d - C. had ye Estate, 12:0: o." 

 This was in the Squire's own liberal vein. ' Lord Cutts 

 had the estate for a few months only, and his memory 

 has gone like that of the guest that tarrieth but a day. 

 No Harting peasant, I will venture to assert, has ever 

 heard his name. But, though the composition was 

 made with Lord Cutts, the outlawry still remained 

 for nearly twenty-five years after; and it is not till 

 2 ist Nov., 1724,* that John Caryll receives con- 

 gratulations on its removal that day, by order of 

 George I. 



As he has ceased to have any longer connection 

 with Harting, I shall now take my humble leave of 

 Mr. Secretary Caryll ; but, before I do so, it may not 

 be amiss to give the reader some extracts from the 

 interesting letters received by him from James II. and 

 his Queen during their exile at St. Germains,f on the 

 strength of which I have already remarked that it was 

 quite possible at one time that the trio might have 

 lived together at Lady Holt instead of St. Germain?. 



In these letters the royal handwriting is coarse and 

 somewhat vague, the only exception being the looped 

 initials of J. R., which long practice had evidently 

 made perfect, and which it would have been hard in 

 those days to forge. The spelling is scarcely that of 

 the third standard in our present schools " fower " 

 for " four," " hether " for " hither," and a capital C for 

 a capital Q in " Queen," occur in our extracts but it 

 must be remembered that those were days in which 

 Marlborough was so poor a scribe, that he wrote to 

 his wife of whom he was passionately fond, " Of all 

 things, I do not love writing " : to plan a campaign, it 

 has been said, being far easier to him than to pen a 

 despatch. 



The first letter from King James II. to John, Lord 



Caryll Correspondence II., 160. 



t Twenty-three letters of James II. and his Queen to John, 

 Lord Caryll, 16921710. Add 1 - 28, 224. 



