132 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



Before his death in Paris, the old Secretary seems 

 to have heard with distress that his nephew "the 

 Squire" at Lady Holt was in debt. There are two 

 drafts of the critical letter, in which the Squire makes 

 a statement of his affairs to his uncle. The most 

 perfect copy is marked June 15, 1718, but cannot have 

 been later than 1711, the year of the Secretary's 

 death, and probably the real date is 1710.* 



" I have received a letter from worthy Mr. Jones, 

 wherein he tells me y r - Lordship seemed surprised I 

 sh d - be in debt. Wherefore, my Lord, I think myself 

 obliged in duty, to give you in as short a manner as 

 the thing will bare, an account of the present state of 

 my affairs, w*- I will faithfully include under two 

 heads, one, as shewing how I came to be in debt; and 

 the other, what means I thank God I have still in my 

 hands of clearing myself one time or other. 



"As to the first, your Lordship may please to 

 remember that by the compision with Lord Cutts, we 

 were to pay him down 6,000, that then you were so 

 generous to give the thousand p ds - morgage you had 

 on Marchell's land, and about eleven hundred pounds 

 of cash of y* 5 - there was in my hands, to which were 

 added about 1,200, raised by y r - order for sale of 

 timber from Har. (Harehurst or Harris Wood, near 

 Lady Holt),f towards discharging itt. The remainder 

 was forced to be charged upon y r - estate. After that, 

 to skreen itt the better from Trouble Times, Worledge, 

 a Protestant attorney, was put in by my father to re- 

 ceive the rents of itt ; but before I could gett him to 

 deliver up his acc ts - he was run 1,100 and odd pounds 

 in our debt ; for which, however, I got from him a land 

 security, but 'tis in reversion after an old woman's 

 death. After that, the next thing that followed was 

 an expensive lawsuit with y e Parson, which there was 



* Add 1 - 28, 227, p. 492. 



f Perhaps " Har." is "Harting," but Caryll's usual abbreviation 

 for this is " Hart? 



