1 82 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



Rev. Joseph Sager, or Seager, Prebendary of Salisbury, 

 who thereupon relinquished a benefice " nearer home," 

 i.e., nearer to Cornwall, in favour of Trevanion's brother. 

 Seager instituted (May 20, 1735) as Rector of Harting 

 forthwith on Parson Newlin's death, appointed himself 

 as Vicar, the patronage of the Vicarage of Harting 

 being annexed to the sinecure Rectory. 



Meanwhile, all unknowing, Lord Clancarty had ap- 

 pointed a nominee of his own to the selfsame prefer- 

 ment, Rev. Henry Magill, Reader or Lecturer of St. 

 George's Church, London. And to mark his satisfac- 

 tion with the Carylls, or, possibly, to give Mr. Magill 

 a good introduction at Harting, Lord Clancarty had 

 presented Caryll's sister, Kate Goolde, with a beautiful 

 little yatch (March 10, 1738-9). 



Accordingly, there were now, to all intents and 

 purposes, two rival Rector- Vicars of Harting, and 

 another of the many Church battles about these 

 benefices was fought with surprising sharpness for < 

 two years. Caryll is at once at law with Trevanion ; 

 Sager and Magill cross each other with quare im- 

 pedits caveats ; the lawyers talk pleasantly of " being 

 fellow-labourers in the vineyard of Harting;" two 

 bishops step up to second the two combatant clerks, 

 Dr. Hoadly of Winchester for Magill, the Bishop of 

 Chichester for Seager ; Magill even invokes the aid 

 of the greatest General of his day, John, Duke of 

 Marlborough, in his eagerness to be Vicar of Harting. 

 But all to no avail : step by step the Caryll and 

 Clancarty side grew fainter ; Seager proves from the 

 registry at Chichester kept by Mr. Dear, and the 

 Bishop's decision, that the Rectory carries the pa- 

 tronage of the Vicarage ; Lord Clancarty swears freely 

 at the Parsons, " who will always plague," and thinks 

 the whole affair " a strange confus'd piece of business ;" 

 Lady Mary considers the knot "inextricable," and 

 adds, " ther' is but one more in England of the same 

 kind." As a last chance Magill and his friends offer 



