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1739 Lord Brudenell recommends to the last Caryll 

 " Mr. Ceilings as tailor, Mr. Fairhills as grocer, Mr. 

 Galtgate, jun., as a hatter, my firm friends at Chich- 

 ester." * This " Mr. Ceilings " the tailor is the father 

 of William Collins the poet, and Caryll's grandfather, 

 the old Squire, usually bought hats of him. In the 

 last line of the ode by Collins to a lady whose husband 

 was killed before Tournay (Fontenoy), 1745-6, Collins 

 mentions our village : 



" Even humbled Harting's cottaged vale 

 Shall learn the sad repeated tale, 

 And bid her shepherds weep." 



Collins' college friend was Tom Warton, and the 

 ode in which these lines occur was first published 

 together with some of the poems of Warton. In a 

 letter of Warton's, May, 1746, he says that he has met 

 Collins at Guildford Races, and that they have de- 

 termined jointly to publish odes. " You will see," he 

 adds, " a very pretty one of Collins's on the death of 

 Col. Ross before Tournay. It is addressed to a lady 

 who was Ross's intimate acquaintance, and who, by 

 the way, is Miss Bett Goddard." Warton further 

 states that she resided at or near Harting in Sussex. 

 The name of Goddard is native at Harting : for ex- 

 ample, the last entry of our first Register Book runs 

 thus : " Ruth, the Daughter of Joseph Goddeard, was 

 baptized I3th Nov.," 1653. Now, Collins might have 

 met his young lady at several houses in Harting, but 

 notably at two : at Uppark, where his Wykehamist 

 schoolfellow, Lord Tankerville, lived, who did not sell 

 the estate to Sir Matt. Fetherstonhaugh till two years 

 after, 1745 ; or at the Vicarage, where lived Dr. Durn- 

 ford (Thomas Durnford, jun., successor to his father 

 as Vicar of Harting), who married Collins's sister Ann 

 for his second wife. Dr. Durnford's exquisite pen- 

 manship, which commences in April, 1745, * n ur 

 Registers, shows that he was the resident parson of 

 * Caryll Correspondence, III., 347. 



