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s - d - 

 Stock cost .... 12 17 6 



Caridge of stock 



4 years' Rent had y e 



Pond been lett w* 1 - 



have been .... 40 o o 

 Charge of Fishing 



By all which allowances it appears that I gained 

 above fifty pounds by keeping the Pond in my hands. 



J. C."* 



Sometimes he paid a prodigious price for stock carp 

 thus : 



" March I, 1730. I bought 50 carps of 20 inches 

 and upward for six pounds of Mr. Biddulph of Burton, 

 and putt 'em into the stews at Harting." Each carp, 

 therefore, before it reached the Harting waters cost 

 2s. 4d., or about seven shillings in our money ; but 

 they were very big fish. The running streams were 

 stocked with trout. 



The Squire had in Harting and Rogate thirty-six 

 tenants. Two of them were of the family of Collins, 

 and, as Mr. Moy Thomas says, were probably related 

 to William Collins the poet. Their name still survives 

 at West Harting in " Collins' Lane." f One of the 

 West Harting tenants supplies the Squire with wool, 

 and an anker of wine at 2 : 1 5 : o suspicious items, 

 as wool was smuggled out of England, and wine in 

 return into it : and hence the farmers as well as the 

 squires were much compromised with the smugglers. 

 One Widow Gaile pays her rent in part by a hogshead 

 of beer at 4 : o : o in 1733, for which in 1610 nine 

 shillings only would have been charged so much had 

 the price risen. In 1733 hay is a guinea a ton ; wether 



* Account Book of Jo : Caryll, Esq., of Lady Holt, Add 1 - 

 28,245 Flyleaf. 



t A name as old as 1635. 



