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days would endure the following fare? Feb. 21, 

 1747. "The constant dinners of the servants hitherto 

 upon Fasting days have been Pudding or Apple Py, 

 and now and then Cabbage ; but that will not do 

 for Lent, so I should be glad if you w d - send down 

 some dry Salt Fish and some red Herrings, w th - 

 orders how often you w d - have the servants have Salt 

 Fish or Herrings, and whether they should not have 

 Eggs on Egg days ; they are now I believe about 

 twelve a groat. As for Sturgeon, if you are so good 

 as to send one little piece for me, I shall be obliged 

 to you." 



(DOCTOR HUNT TO CARYLL). 



. How great the contrast between this point of star- 

 vation and the fat days of Harting Place under Sir 

 Ed. Caryll, in 1610! It is quite possible that much 

 of the illnesses at Lady Holt proceeded from want 

 of food. In this very year, however, the young 

 Pretender, Charles Edward, a fugitive from Culloden, 

 was living for days on roots, and when dressed up 

 as Betty Bourke, Lady Flora Macdonald's maid, 

 would doubtless have gladly exchanged fare with 

 the servants of Lady Holt. 



Still in spite of all this scarcity the Harting hounds 

 were not put down. " They eat and kill, not at least 

 for you," wrote Father Hunt, piteously. " Few of 

 your hounds will stay att Quarters (in Harting). 

 They are continually up here. I tell Isaack to whip 

 them away." In April, 1747, the poor chaplain of 

 Lady Holt is afraid that all the Squire's rents will 

 go up to London without allowance for his salary. 

 And so Dr. Hunt continues " Now, my dear Sir, 

 if you order all the money upp without any deduction 

 what must I do ? for I have none. ... I must say 

 with the steward in the gospel -fodere non valeo ; 

 mendicare erubesco. (' I cannot dig : to beg I am 

 ashamed ') : but I have not his salvo ' scio quod faciam 



