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to allow Seager as Rector provided he will cede the 

 Vicarage ; but to this his clever answer is an exchange 

 of the Vicarage of Harting with Dr. James Bramston, 

 who already held Lurgashall and Charlton. By Nov. 9, 

 1739, the Bishop of Chichester had collated Bramston 

 to Harting, and Caryll, Clancarty, and Magill were 

 checkmated. 



But Magill was not wholly unavenged. On the igth 

 June, 1740, he wrote to Caryll: "I'm told that my 

 worthy friend Sager is fall'n into y e Hands of the Dean 

 and Chapter of Sarum for Forgery concerning some 

 lease belonging to them, and that the matter is to be 

 tried at Doctors' Commons next Thursday, after w ch - 

 he is to fall into the hands of the Bishop. It is not 

 impossible that this may make something in my favour. 



Sager will not dare show his face Some think 



he will be degraded or rendered incapable." What an 

 astonishing vitality must the Church of England have 

 possessed to have survived such corruption amongst 

 her ministers in the eighteenth century ! But the re- 

 cords of her past miseries in this respect must raise in 

 any generous mind even without her pale a sense of 

 veneration, and a chivalrous foe will show some tender- 

 ness for the ship that has weathered such storms as 

 these. 



In June, 1739, Lady Mary turned out of Lady Holt 

 to make room for her son and his wife. Her last letters 

 still present her usual characteristics : the irritability 

 of an invalid, and the affection of a doting mother. 

 " June 20, 1739. A Cheshire gentleman named Brooks 

 (who went all over Lady Holt) call'd the Park the 

 ' garden of the world,' but I fear it would not be long 

 so, for they drove quite down the middle of the Lawn, 

 and backwards and forwards as if it had been the 

 king's highway, w*- you know provokes me beyond all 

 patience. John Varndell (carpenter, son of West Hart- 

 ing farmer) has promised me to put up one of the 

 gates to-day, and as soon as that is, I'le fasten up the 



