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Caryll " (for our modern style in designation of one 

 still a minor is used) was the heir of the intestate, in 

 the place of his father. The young man came of age 

 and married two years afterwards. 



With his mother, he came over to England, and 

 received an enthusiastic welcome in this neighbour- 

 hood. His first friends are Mr. H. Legge, a young 

 barrister of the Temple, and Mr. Bonham, of Peters- 

 field, who join him in a yachting expedition at Port- 

 mouth, the latter "bringing a cold pigeon pie in token 

 of his wife's housewifery."* His French education 

 serves the young Squire ill enough in his first essays 

 at the old English game of cricket in May, 1737. He 

 has received a kind of horse kiss from a cricket ball, 

 and Mr. Legge writes " I congratulate you. Bruises 

 and strains, and cuts, and thumps and knocks were 

 the acts by which Pollux and Hercules immortalized 

 themselves, and no man has ever arrived at any supe- 

 rior degree of heroism whose features have all dyed 

 in their beds." About this time he seems to have 

 offered his hand to Lady Arundel (daughter of the 

 Duke of Norfolk), and, to the indignation of his 

 grandmother, to have been rejected, the young lady 

 preferring some one of larger estate. Soon after, he 

 was more successful. The London "Daily Post" of 

 May 15, 1738, trumpets the announcement of the 

 marriage of the last John Caryll of Harting, in the 

 most fulsome terms : 



" We now hear for certain that the Hon. Mr. Caryll, 

 of Lady Holt, in Sussex, a Gentleman of a most 

 antient Family and fine Fortune in that county (com- 

 monly called Lord Caryll), is married to Miss 

 Molyneux, second daughter to the Right Hon : the 

 Lord Viscount Molyneux, of Lancashire, a Lady of 

 "real Merit, Beauty and Fortune : and no less admired 

 for her Humility, Generosity, and affable good Nature, 



* Add 1 - 28,229, p. 77. 



