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the same age as Lady Mary's son, the Squire's heir. 

 Probably little Mary Newlin may have been needed 

 as an English child, a playfellow for the last cadet 

 of the house of Caryll, who might keep up the boy's 

 English. Lady Mary passes on Mr. Newlin's piteous 

 letter to Mr. Caryll, one of the Shipley family, a 

 cousin of the Squire's, now in France, who answers in 

 a tone of scorn and cruelty that contrasts much with 

 the dignity and good feeling of the Parson of Harting. 



" I4th March, 1726-7. A copie of a letter from a 

 Parson in England to Lady Mary Caryll at Paris, who 

 was so good and charitable as to take one of his nine 

 daughters off his hands to breed her up and provide 

 for her."* 



"Chalton,f March y e 14 th 1726, O. S. 



" Honoured Madam, 



" I have just now rec d - a letter from Mr. Caryll 

 from Dunkerke (Phillip Caryll) with part of another 

 inclos'd subscribed Mary Anne Caryll, in w ch - are 

 these words " M y - (Mary) Newlin is to make her 

 first communion next Easter." I have been often 

 reproch'd for letting of her go, and as often told 

 that she was only decoyed away and sent to Bruges 

 in order to be perverted ; but I depended most 

 assuredly upon your Ladyship's honour, that nothing 

 of that kind wou'd be attempted without my consent, 

 and sure a child of ten year old is in no way capable 

 of determining for herself in so weighty a busieness as 

 is y l - (that) of her soul. 



" Madam, I am a clergyman, and therefore ought to 

 be presumed to know y e foundation of my relligion, 

 and as I don't think it good manners to reflect upon 



* Heading in Philip CarylFs handwriting, 

 f Caryll Correspondence II., 194. Like Dr. Bramston who 

 succeeded him at Harting, John Newlin was Incumbent of 

 Harting and Chalton. 



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