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the state of the Squire of Lady Holt's fortunes, and 

 the cheerfulness with which he struggled, spite of dis- 

 honest servants, a burdened estate, and a large and 

 sickly family flanked by poor relations on either side 

 to complete and furnish a new mansion. Would he 

 not have done better in the old home at Harting 

 Place ? But probably sickness and the insecurity of 

 the times drove him to his hill fortress of Lady Holt, 

 where, peace loving and religious as he was, he might 

 be safe in moments of suspicion from espionage, and 

 have his private chapel and resident priest. Beside 

 borrowing from others, in 1710, the year of the fore- 

 going letter, he borrowed .200 at 5^ per cent, from 

 his friend Alexander Pope's father. 



The two next events of his life eased his shoulders 

 from burthen, at all events for the time : viz., the death 

 of his uncle, 1711, and the marriage of his son Jack 

 (John Caryll of Harting No. IV.) in the following year 

 to Lady Mary, daughter of Kenneth, fourth Earl 

 Seaforth, of Salterns, Devon. 



The Secretary left " little Jack " the " rents in the 

 Town House of this place," Hotel de Ville, Paris ; his 

 will also contained bequests to several members of the 

 Caryll family, to the Jacobite Scot College in Paris, and 

 to several charities. The Squire, as Legetaire Universal, 

 or Residuary Legatee, found .18,000 in cash, and a 

 rental of ,12,966 : 10 : o. No doubt these sums re- 

 presented the liberality of James II. and Queen Mary, 

 and the thrift of the old (bachelor ?) man. Mrs. Ann 

 Cope was left 300 a-year out of the estate for her life.* 



Add 1 - 28, 227, p. 103. In Caryll (" Squire's") writing. 

 LEGACIES. 



Ready Cash ^18,000 Burial .400 



8,500 Others 8,100 



,9,500 abt- ,8,500 

 June 2, 1712. 



