HISTORY OF HARTING. 



A handsome letter from Mr. Page acknowledged 

 the receipt of the arms from Lady Holt. 



"Watergate, 26 Dec., 1745. 



" Sir, I am favoured with y r - letter, and have re- 

 ceived the arms you therein mention, w h - I shall restore 

 to you with a Thousand times the Satisfaction I re- 

 ceived them. Sir Rich d - Mill and Mr. Battine are here, 

 and join in saying that they have not gone thro' a 

 more disagreeable business a long while than that of 

 this day, and that you behaved with great propriety 

 and politeness. 



"J. PAGE." 



Caryll's horses and arms were re-delivered to him 

 on the 1 5th Feb. 1746. 



From the spring of 1 746 Caryll seems to have found 

 this neighbourhood too hot for him, and therefore 

 removed to London, and the north. His chief corres- 

 pondent from Lady Holt was his Roman Catholic 

 Priest, Dr. Thomas Hunt, whose letters are always 

 amusing, and who takes up the thread of Lady Mary's 

 local gossip. He describes himself as a person with 

 " a mountainous red face," strolling about the woods 

 of Lady Holt with a pig in a string. Sometimes he 

 must have looked grotesque enough. 



" Nov. 29, 1746. I ventured out just to look at my 

 garden to-day for the first time, but such a Figure I 

 cutt, that the Gipsyes (who infest these parts att pre- 

 sent, and have done some and attempted more mis- 

 chief) tho' sixteen, had all been frightened My 



head was covered with a Hat, my Face w th - a great dab 

 of Scarlet Frieze, the remains of a pair of Britches, my 

 neck with a silk neckerchief and neckcloath (concealing 

 his Ruffle w h - the Biddy the Parrot had torn), and my 

 Body, besides other Cloaths, w*- my Fidler's Coat. 

 1 Qu'el chien de Figure ? ' ' It was happy that he did 

 venture out, or all the orange Trees would have been 



