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ground floor, Down Park ; on its first story, the " Old 

 Park" near the Church, and Mr. Lever would add a 

 Park at East Harting near Turkey Island ; on its 

 second story, on the Downs, Lady Holt Park and 

 Up Park. 



It seems most probable that Lady Holt was built 

 by John, Lord Caryll, the Secretary, and that, though 

 he may never have taken possession of it, it was built 

 by his money in the reign of King James his patron. 

 The Secretary's accounts for the estate, and also for 

 the widows of Dame Puckering's (a Caryll) charity, 

 in which it appears that he apprenticed, among other 

 orphans, a girl* at a premium of 2 : o : o, to one 

 Thomas Russell, 1674, show that he was an active 

 resident landlord at Harting. Among the curious lists 

 of affidavits of burial in woollen of the year i68i,f is 

 an entry which shows that he buried his mother at 

 Harting. " Sep. 13. Al : Cotton and Arthur Phillips 

 for Jo : Caryll, Sen., Esq." We shall see that Mr. 

 Arthur Phillips was his steward at Harting, and as he 

 is called " Jo : Caryll, Sen." it would seem as if his 

 nephew the Squire, then "Jo : Caryll, Jun.," must have 

 been upon Harting soil even in 1681. 



In 1683, a total inventory of goods at Harting Place, 

 with directions for their removal to different houses in 

 London was made, and shows 14 furnished rooms in 

 the mansion. % In 1696, the Squire was, as we have 



* Add 1 - 28, 240, p. 52. Household accounts of Caryll family. 



j~ Harting Register No. I., End. A curious entry of burial in 

 woollen of the Rector of Terwick, is made by his successor 

 S. Wormell : " 1687. ' Ubi desinit -N. Love I B I Incipit S. 

 Wormell, Rect r - Indignissimus.' Mem d - that my predecessor, 

 Mr. Love, receiving hurt by the fall of a loose lidd of a chest into 

 which he, y e said Mr. Love, unfortunately (then, on i$th April) 

 looked for his spectacles, he soon after dyed of a gangrene and 

 feaver. ' Nigro carbone notetur ille dies.' Of his burial in 

 woollen (viz., of Mr. Love), affidavit was made and dated the 

 2nd day of May, in the 31 year of our sovereign Lord King 

 Charles y e 2nd, 1679." (Register of Terwick.) 

 | Add'- 28, 240, year 1683. 



