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y 6 Queen's Bench barr. on Munday, y 6 sis th inst, and 

 if it suited w th - y r - conveniency, I should be very glad 

 to speak w th - you before. Y e matter upon w h - I would 

 be glad to discourse you about, is concerning y e manner 

 of East Harting, w h - was bought by y r - ancesters. 

 " I am, S r -- 



"Y r - most Hum ble - Servant, 



" C. OSSULSTONE."* 



In 1714 Lord Tankerville's title was revived, and 

 given to his son-in-law at Up Park. The latter died 

 2 ist May, 1722, and was succeeded by his only sur- 

 viving son, Charles, who afterwards married Camilla, 

 Lady of the Bed Chamber to Queen Caroline. The 

 3rd Lord Tankerville was known at Winchester 

 College (with which the Fords were probably long 

 connected, as a branch of the family lived at Win- 

 chester, and one of the Fords was master at Winchester 

 College) as Charles Ossulstone, Viscount (1730), and 

 was a favorite commoner pupil of Dr. John Burton, 

 the head master. Lord Ossulstone, on quitting the 

 school, left his portrait to the head master, and it is 

 to this day among the pictures at the second Master's 

 house. Dr. Burton was much loved by his pupils, 

 who, when he died, attached Latin verses to his bier.f 

 Lord Tankerville, when he was Viscount Ossulstone, 

 must have been at school with the Chichester lad 

 William Collins, and as Collins was at the head of the 

 school when he left, the young heir of Uppark would 

 be sure to know him, and appreciate the rising fame 

 of his county neighbour. 



At that time the boy-commonwealth of Winchester 

 was divided into two factions, the Jacobites and Hano- 

 verians, who fought in earnest for George or Prince 

 Charlie. Lord Ossulstone would be, according to his 

 family traditions, Hanoverian. Lord Elcho, another 



* Add'- 28,227, P- 63. 



f Mackenzie Walcott's " Memorial." It is curious that Caryll, 

 too, educated his sons at Winchester, but being a strict Papist, 

 he sent them to the private care of Father Dicanson. 



