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the August of that year he together with Pope visited 

 Bp. Atterbury, who was imprisoned in the Tower 

 for conspiring to bring in the Pretender. The con- 

 spirators in Atterbury's Plot intended to bring the 

 Foreign Legion to the shores of Sussex, King George 

 being abroad. Caryll, as a Sussex Jacobite Squire, 

 therefore, shewed some spirit in visiting Atterbury, 

 when in disgrace. But Caryll knew well enough what 

 it was to be in gaol. 



In 1726, after the death of Mr. 'Roper, Caryll is 

 again at Lady Holt. " I really long," writes Pope, 

 " to see a true patriarch, the lappet of whose shoes I 

 am not worthy to unloose (alluding to the Squire's 

 gout), and to observe once more before I die, the 

 increase of all your herds, flocks, and plantations at 

 Lady Holt." The Squire was now farming on a large 

 scale for those times. He had planted his belts of 

 trees from the house at Lady Holt, and avenues 

 across West Harting Down and Foxcombe, reaching 

 nearly to Harting Church itself. He had 300 red 

 deer in his park, the produce of which, " Mrs. 

 Patty," Duke of Richmond, and three succeeding 

 orthodox Protestant Bishops of Chichester, the latter 

 not seldom guests at Lady Holt, pronounced to be 

 the best venison in the world. Nor were his two parks 

 at Lady Holt and East Grinsted unremunerative. In 

 one of his Account Books he has entered the following : 



" Copy of the note I sent Mr. Bentley to sign. 



" Ap., 1730. I doe promise to take of Mr. Caryll 

 twenty brace of fatt Bucks in this next ensuing season, 

 viz., thirteen brace of Grinsted, and seven brace from 

 Lady Holt, at the rate of five guineas (now about 16) 

 per Buck : and to stand to y e whole caredge (carriage) 

 of those from Grinsted, w*- I am to take upp at the 

 Lodge there, and to allow 55. per Buck towards the 

 caredge of those from Lady Holt. 



" Witness my hand, 



