2O2 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



Thus the direct line of the Carylls became extinct, 

 and the recklessness of the last John Caryll of Harting 

 may in part be accounted for by the fact that there 

 was no heir apparent for whose benefit he might save. 

 Lady Dorothy Caryll died at Lady Holt in 1760, but 

 was not buried at Harting. Gentle old Father Hunt, 

 with careful nursing and "duddling," lived on till May 

 1 770, and, having died according to tradition at Bright- 

 wells, is buried in Harting Churchyard. The last Caryll 

 burials at Harting were those of Edward Caryll of 

 Compton, in 1766, and Miss Elizabeth Caryll (John 

 Caryll " the Squire's " daughter) in 1 767. 



Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh purchased the Bohemia 

 lands in 1755 ; the Home Farm, " Ffoxcombs," the 

 disparked Park near the Church, and Tarbarrow or 

 Tarberry Hill in 1761 ; the capital Manor or Mansion 

 House of West Harting, the Mill, Mill Pond, Trout 

 Stream, &c., in 1761 ; several Farms, together with 

 Harting Great Pond, the little Pond and the Clay 

 Pond, the Hundred of Dempford and Manor of West 

 Harting, " these being purchases formerly made by 

 Mr. Jolliffe from Mr. Caryll previous to the Act of 

 Parliament," in 1761. It thus appears that Mr. 

 Jolliffe's claim upon Caryll on account of which the 

 bailiffs were sent to Lady Holt in 1746, was satisfied 

 at the time by Caryll's giving a mortgage on part of 

 his land, which would afterwards seem to have been 

 foreclosed ; and thus Sir Matthew purchased from 

 Mr. Jolliffe. Last of all, in the year 1766-7, after his 

 wife's, uncles', and daughter's deaths, the unhappy 

 solitary sold Lady Holt itself to the Duke of 

 Richmond, who assigned it to Sir Matthew Fether- 

 stonhaugh. It is styled in the deed of sale " The 

 Mansion House and the Beauty thereof at Lady 

 Holt." 



Before 1770 every stone of Lady Holt house was 

 removed ; and nothing but turf remained to mark the 

 site so dear to Pope and Gay. 



