1 88 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



" hopes that Caryll will have the courage to live 

 privately now on the spot where he has lived in 

 so publick a manner before." Apparently, it is in 

 answer to this appeal that Caryll writes from Lady 

 Holt, Aug. 6, 1744: "The unnatural usage I have 

 received from them (his sisters) is too affecting for 

 me to dwell longer on the y e subject. They have 

 given irrevocable power to a woman who is like to 

 abuse them as she has made them abuse me." Caryll 

 adds that he has not given her the slightest provo- 

 cation, " unless ordering her out of my house is 

 such. . . . She is endeavouring to find a person who 

 w d - swear that I left England on purpose to avoid 



prosecution from my sisters I am well 



assured, D r - Sir, that you at least are one of the few 

 sincere friends I have remaining (for the number of 

 those who used to appear so dimineshes ev'ry day)." 

 To suit his present circumstances he is " breaking off 

 all acquaintance : and for y e future will live entirely 

 retired being liable to public abuse again while he 

 owes a farthing." * 



It was high time for Caryll to return, however igno- 

 miniously from France. As he did not at first appear 

 to the Bill brought against him by his sisters, a copy 

 of Commission of Rebellion had been issued, and a 

 neighbouring magistrate (J. Page, of Watergate) speaks 

 of a capital case as likely to ensue, and expresses him- 

 self guardedly as to judgment. The sale of the Grin- 

 stead estate, and probably other loans, enabled Caryll 

 to meet this crisis, and to silence the clamours of many 

 creditors ; but, from henceforth he seems to have been 

 alone, and the few letters from members of his family 

 are bitter and stinging. All things were preparing 

 Lady Holt for its last siege of debt and shame. 



Matters now pressed so hard upon the outlaw, that 

 it was doubtful whether he might keep a horse. To 



* Caryll Correspondence, 28,230, p. 256. 



