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(' I am resolved what to do"). For to borrow, if I 

 cared for it, I have not one person hereabouts of 

 my acquaintance who is in a condition of lending! 

 I sent for Mr. Biggs and hoped to have got a guinea 

 or two of him upon my note, but instead of that he 

 begged me to lend him a couple of guineas to be 

 paid by you : that stopped my mouth : I made a 

 leg, and assured him itt was not in my power. Mr. 

 Hawley (butler at Lady Holt) says there is no meat 

 for the dogs, and as he is ordered not to take any- 

 thing from the tenants, they will cat one another in 

 a few days time. Oats in the stable there has been 

 none this week past." July n, 1747. Sir Matthew 

 Fetherstonhaugh writes to complain of these dogs 

 the pest of the neighbourhood. Mr. Phipps (now at 

 Littlegreen since Ed. Caryll's death) had shot one 

 of them ; and Sir Matthew says that they had torn 

 down a wire window and eaten a buck at his keeper's 

 lodge. " Besides which, they are continually night 

 and day hunting by themselves, and as I am informed 

 kill a great many of the young hares." Eventually, 

 in Dec., 1747, Lady Holt was let to Mr. D. Matthews, 

 of Dean Street, Soho, who took the hounds and made 

 agreement with a farmer of Harting to keep them 

 for 40 a year in one of the cellars of the old 

 house at Harting Harting Place. 



Sometimes the hungry denizens of Lady Holt 

 fished the ponds and feasted. Dr. Hunt gives an 

 amusing anecdote of Sussex simplicity in his 



" History of y e - Fishing of the great Pond (West 

 Harting), Ap. 13, 1747. 



" I arrived att the Pond between 6 and 7 (for I 

 went on Foot), but when I came I was told it was 

 all over, for the Penstock was done, and not one soul 

 in the Pond. Mr. Hawley and Mr. Rooks arrived 

 w th - melancholy countenances, the latter (for he also 



