1 86 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



great energy and acuteness of mind. Her bluntness 

 doubtless made her some foes ; nevertheless her feeling 

 disposition, affability, rank, and purity of character 

 must have endeared her to a good many more. Her 

 death was the signal for a violent outbreak of dunn- 

 ing letters from all quarters. The Duke of Norfolk 

 claimed 500 lent for Caryll's education, and adds 

 that " Lady Mary died insolvent." Mary Lowth (wife 

 of the Rector of Buriton, and mother of Bishop Lowth) 

 wrote from Winchester, April 13, 1741, that she had 

 now, by Lady Mary's death, but a single security for 

 her Bond debt of 400, and asked " by Michas (as 

 bond securities are liable to great hazards) to be paid 

 off, or to have the debt changed for a land mortgage at 

 4 per cent." It is sad to contrast with all this misery 

 the funeral pomp which young Caryll's vanity loved to 

 assume in Paris. The following printed form of in- 

 vitation is preserved among the Caryll records : 



" [1740.] Vous estes priez d'assister au Service pour 

 le repos de 1'Ame de Haute et Puissante Dame 

 Madame Marie Mackenzie, Veuve de My lord CARYLL 

 Baron de Dunford, Seigneur de Lady Holt et autres 

 Lieux, Pair d'Angleterre, decedee a Londres le I4 e du 

 present mois ; qui se sera Mardy 26 Avril, 1740, a neuf 

 heures du matin en Eglise du College des Ecossois, 

 sossez S. Victor. 



" Messieurs et dames s'y trouveront, s'il leur plaist. 



" Un de profundis." * 



Perhaps young Caryll already felt that he should 

 soon be driven to seek shelter in France again. The 

 small pox broke out a second time at Lady Holt in 

 1741. Edward Caryll, the uncle of the present squire, 

 wrote from Crompton (Little green) that it was at 

 East Marden in April, and that in consequence the 



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