CHAPTER VI. 



JOHN CARYLL OF HARTING III., THE SQUIRE ; 

 AND FRIEND OF POPE. 



JOHN CARYLL III. was the son of Richard Caryll, 

 Esquire, of Harting, and afterwards of West Grinstead, 

 and was born about 1666. 



As we have seen, he was his uncle's agent from the 

 time that the latter was called to high affairs of state, 

 his successor to the West Harting estates in 1696, and 

 subsequently, in 1711, his uncle's heir. 



His married life, of which he had a jubilee or golden 

 wedding in 1735, was spent, with one brief interval of 

 six years, at Lady Holt. 



It is singular that large as is the collection of Caryll 

 Papers and Accounts (numbering 30 volumes, and 

 some of them very bulky collections), there seems to 

 be no direct evidence of the exact date of the building 

 of Lady Holt mansion. For six years the Caryll 

 Papers have been at the British Museum, and as yet 

 they are unindexed, nor is any information, beyond 

 the mere numerical title of each volume, to be obtained 

 by the student. One is thus at great disadvantage, 

 and as the task of search becomes laborious on the 

 one hand, so, on the other hand, the risk of incomplete 

 survey is enhanced. With some diffidence, therefore, 

 I set before the reader the only data that I have found 

 for an approximation of the exact date of Lady Holt. 



There is a document which is headed " Inquisition 

 for outlawry of Jo : Caryll, Esq., who is outlawed 

 Monday next after Lady Day, 1695." 



It shows that the Secretary's whole estates in Sussex, 

 including the Castle of Winchelsea, Higham Manor, 

 Sontinge, Drayton, Oving, Merston, &c., as well as 



