HISTORY OF HARTING. I2/ 



Bishop. To his honour the Squire here gallantly 

 interposed, though in a friendly letter Bishop Thos. 

 Manningham remarks that " y e paying of debts is not 

 the use that spiritual benefices were designed for." 

 Caryll's part in this matter shews how completely his 

 sweet disposition had forgiven old scores. But the 

 parsons of Harting were hardly worth preserving in 

 their cures till they were men of a different stamp. 

 There is a letter in the Caryll correspondence which 

 states that Tench's predecessor as Vicar of Harting, 

 named Francis Salisbury, ''suffered death for coining."* 

 I have not been able to verify this, but it is certainly 

 remarkable that the only break in the Registers of 

 Harting, occurs between the years 1681 1692, the 

 entries of the former years being in Francis Salisbury's 

 handwriting, and Mr. Tench succeeding probably as 

 Curate at first in 1692. The Bishop's Register at 

 Chichester, shews " Thomas Tench, Rector of Harting, 

 Oct. 28, 1695 Patron, John Caryll. Thomas Tench, 

 Vicar of Harting, 1697 Patron, pro ilia vice tantumfi 

 Archdeacon Oliver Whitby, on the death of Francis 

 Salisbury." As the vicarage of Harting was in the 

 gift of the sinecure Rector, the object of Tench was to 

 procure his own appointment to the vicarage through 

 the Archdeacon, and he is quoted (in the next 

 generation, 1739) as having written to Oliver Whitby, 

 Sen r -' that he "had placed so much confidence in him as 

 to convey to him his right of presenting to the vicarage 

 when it should be next void which it will be soon," 

 he adds, " by the deserved punishment of the present 

 Vicar (who suffered death for coining), assuring himself 

 that the Arch dn - w d - use that right for his (Tench's) 

 advantage only." J 



It is right to say that this statement about the capital 

 punishment for coining, rests only on the authority 



* Caryll Correspondence, Ad 1 - 28, 229, p. 358. 



f " For that turn only." 

 % Caryll Correspondence, Ad 1 - 28, 229, p. 358. 



