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to desire that my Lady and Lord Osleton shou'd 

 go over immediatly, for my Lord had a violent 

 fever and convultions, and they believ'd him dying, 

 others say he is dead. I sent to Uppark, and they 

 are all in tears believing him so. A melancholy 

 thing to reflect in whose company he is taken off. 

 I wish his son may lead a better life." This son, 

 the contemporary of Collins at Winchester College 

 as we have seen, sold the Uppark estate to Sir 

 Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, in 1747, and thereupon 

 closed the connection of the Fords with Harting. 

 The name survived in our village till the end of 

 the eighteenth century, and the last Harting person 

 of the name of Ford is buried with the pauper cross 

 affixed in the register. 



The price paid by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh 

 for Lord Tankerville's estate in the parish of Harting, 

 was ,19,000; and it is usually added by the chroni- 

 clers that the wood in the park in which there was 

 then much oak, was computed to be worth the whole 

 purchase money. But Mr. Weaver has ascertained 

 that the whole of the property then sold did not 

 exceed a thousand acres, viz. : 



A. R. P. 



The Park and Paddock ... 680 221 

 Hodston Farm and Copse ... 119 3 13 

 Nyewood Meads 116 2 23 



917 o 17 



At the same time it must be remembered that 

 in 1747, the burdens upon land in the shape of taxes 

 for constant wars were very great ; and in the latter 

 part of the eighteenth century, Sussex land paid even 

 55. in the pound for poor rate alone in the year. Thus 

 Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, in a letter to the last 



* Caryll Corresp., Vol. IV., 95. 



