1 64 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



I have been fortunate enough, through the kindness 

 of Professor Bell, of Selborne, to obtain an engraving 

 of his noble picture of Oliver Whitby, as he was 

 approaching his manhood. The picture itself, a model 

 of grace, is, with the other heirlooms, in the house of 

 Gilbert White, and is much in the style of Sir Peter 

 Lely. Oliver Whitby, through Ann Holt his niece, 

 was a great uncle of Gilbert White, and like that illus- 

 trious naturalist, had possession of land in Harting, at 

 Nyewood, and kinship with the East Harting Squires. 

 Mr. Weaver remarks "Oliver Whitby was at one 

 time possessed of certain lands at Nyewoods, these he 

 .willed to his sister, Ann Holt (wife of Rev. Holt, 

 of Streatham), she left them to her daughter, Anne 

 White, of Selborne, who was the mother of Gilbert 

 White." The derivation of "Nyewoods" is uncertain. 

 Along it passes the present road to Rogate, main- 

 tained by the Longstock charity. It is said that a 

 poor traveller once found hospitable shelter here at, 

 the Parish Receiving House, at Champs, and in his 

 will remembered the place, and out of some 500 

 bequests, appropriated 20 a year for ever to the 

 maintenance of the hospitable road. (Smith's charity.) 

 To us residents in Harting, Oliver Whitby is best 

 known as the donor of the handsome and capacious 

 silver chalice used to this day in Harting Church.* 



Lord Ossulston, in right of his wife Mary, suc- 

 ceeded to Uppark and the East Harting Manor in 

 1702. In 1706, just when John Caryll, "the Squire," 

 was negotiating for the purchase of the East Harting 

 Tithes, Lord Ossultone, so far as can be decyphered 

 from a slovenly and ill-spelt note, full of broad pro- 

 vincialisms, in the Caryll Correspondence, was in some 

 trouble about his estate, and on the point of going to 

 law. He writes to Caryll : 



" London, Nov. y e 6 th 1708. S r - I am pleaged 

 (plagued) again w th - Ford, and I am to ha" a tryall att 



* The inscription is " Harting. Donum Oliver Whitby." 



