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forbid this house, for this affair will be both a great 

 losse of time and an expence to the poor people. 

 The boy belongs to Bartlet the miller, not ours, but 

 the other of the name. I fear I have quiet tyr'd 

 you with this Long History, but I am out of patience 

 to see things as they are at present, for we have 

 so much ill humour at present among us, that it 

 makes me grow /zVish (peevish). You are to have 

 a whole load of complaints .... again." The young 

 Carylls are wanted at home " now they have been 

 marryed so long." 



One is staggered in reading this letter at the startling 

 power of the womankind of Harting in 1738. Even if 

 she were wholly in the right at the commencement of 

 the squabble, Mary Jones cannot be defended for 

 imitating the lady of Thebez among the Harting boys, 

 and then wheedling Major Battin so as to bring down 

 the law upon their heads also. Among the deaths 

 about this time in the Harting Register is that of 

 " John, y e son of Benj. Bartlett, junior," but whether 

 this were Mary Jones's victim or not cannot be as- 

 certained. 



Early in 1739 ld Parson Newlin, sometime Rector, 

 but still Vicar of Harting, died ; and the appointment 

 of his successor caused no small stir. The old Squire, 

 fearing disqualification as a Roman Catholic patron, 

 had conveyed the right of presentation to a Protestant 

 friend of his, one John Trevanion, of Kerhayes in 

 Cornwall. The Carylls treated this as a mere nominal 

 trust, and believed the patronage to be still to all 

 intents and purposes their own (as in the former case 

 of Parson Newlin). Accordingly, a year before Newlin 

 died the younger Caryll sold the next presentation to 

 the Vicarage of Harting to Lord Clancarty. Mr. Tre- 

 vanion was probably one of the many creditors of the 

 family of Caryll ; and as soon as he heard that the 

 living of Harting was vacant, recouped himself by 

 appointing to the sinecure Rectory of Harting the 



