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park that it may not be so trampled upon 



Somebody has stolen all the Iron, and broke down the 

 Maple Gate upon West Hartin down. I can't imagine 

 who it is, but I fancy it must be the same that rob'd 

 Lordington house of all the Iron bars and locks last 

 week." These thefts were usually set down to the 

 gipsies, who were the terror of the country neighbour- 

 hood at this time. 



Lady Mary adds that she is going to show her 

 daughters over Cowdray, and after that to " Hartin," 

 and thence to the great Salterns in Portsea Island, 

 near Portsmouth, Hants. They probably went to the 

 Salterns for health. 



" . . . . Now, my dearest, I can say no more at 

 present, having something of my fever again, but at all 

 times and in all conditions ever imploring the Almighty 

 to grant you all blessings on earth, and an eternal 

 crown of glory in the world to come, I am, my dear, 

 y re - &c., &c." 



By Qth September, 1739, Caryll and Lady Dolly 

 seem to have taken up their abode at Lady Holt. On 

 the happy Thursday South Harting street was un- 

 peopled, the ringers and a Scotchman being all that 

 were to be found. All Harting turned out to meet 

 the young Squire and his lady in the road from 

 London, and conducted them safe home " with the 

 upermost satisfaction" (as Paul Kelly, the bailiff, wrote) 

 to Lady Holt. Caryll, however, found his place no 

 palace. " He had been left," Lady Mary said, "without 

 a bed to lie upon, or a spoon to eat with, but what he 

 paid for ; " and when his grandmother, aged 78, wrote 

 from the Salterns begging that her husband's debts, 

 might be paid, adding, " I have doon w th - this world, 

 and never more seek for any diversions," the young 

 squire answered kindly that " it was true that he had 

 promised to see his grandfather's debts paid, but that 

 he had come into an estate whose every farm was to 

 pieces, and into a house almost ready to fall on his 



