HISTORY OF HARTING. l8/ 



Battine family* were absent, and that Miss Roberts 

 had it at Iddsworth, that Iddsworth House was shut up, 

 and so for the present the match between young Squire 

 Roberts and Miss Hugony (Hugonyn) of Nursted was 

 put off till next year. Young Caryll himself caught 

 the disease by the end of May, and had it for the 

 second time in his life : " a terrible distemper," as Mr. 

 Towneley of Towneley noted in his letter of con- 

 gratulation on Caryll's recovery, "to undergo twice. 



They (i.e., small pox) are still much in our 



neighbourhood." It must have been very depressing 

 to the young squire to have suffered this plague in the 

 same house where, twenty-three years before, his father 

 died of it, and where several servants had also been 

 swept away from the same cause. 



The year 1744 was a disastrous one for the Caryll 

 family. Caryll's sisters had run into debt to such an 

 extent that the Sheriff's officer seized them. They in 

 turn sued Caryll, who had neglected to provide for 

 them. It was arranged that the Grinsted estate should 

 be made over to them for sale. Meanwhile Caryll, at 

 the commencement of this exposure and infamy, left 

 England for France, and was at Dunkerque in June, 

 " penetrated with gratitude for the honour which his 

 R(oyal) Highness (the Pretender, Charles Edward, 

 then at Gravelines) had done them." It is strange 

 that he did not join the Scotch expedition of 1745 ; 

 perhaps his health, or the fear of compromising 

 his wife's relations, the Molyneux family, saved him 

 from Culloden. At any rate in August he was at 

 Lady Holt again, but from this time seldom made 

 any stay there. Caryll's conduct towards his sisters 

 seems to have been considered cowardly ; and even 

 an old friend such as Mr. H. Legge, now a M.P., 



The first mention of the Battine family of East Harden shows 

 them to have been connected with the navy, and on the Parlia- 

 ment side. In a list of those commanding the fleet in Cromwell's 

 time, I found that John Battin commanded the " George." 



