HISTORY OF HARTING. 2O3 



In Aug. 1768,* Sir Matthew built a house at Fox- 

 combe, which afterwards being castellated attained 

 the name of Castle Farm : probably some of its 

 materials may have been derived from Lady Holt, as 

 afterwards the bricks from the high garden walls 

 served for the kitchen archway at Uppark when the 

 Front was erected, as it is said, after a design by Beau 

 Nash. So hasty is Dalloway, that he pitches upon 

 " Castle Farm," a name not half a century old at the 

 date of his Book, as the site of the ancient " Hart- 

 ing Place." To this day the older villagers prefer 

 the venerable name of " Foxcombe " to the modern 

 grandeur of " Castle Farm." 



Before 1800 the old house at the Church was also 

 dismantled. In its last days, as we have seen, it had 

 been appropriated to a parish school, and afterwards 

 a workhouse, while in its old dungeon the poor old 

 Harting hounds starved, and must have made dismal 

 music for the paupers above. A letter of one John 

 Exall to Caryll, wherein the petitioner, a Roman 

 Catholic schoolmaster, asks not to be turned out of 

 the " great house at Harting," shows incidentally the 

 early interest taken by the family of Fetherstonhaugh 

 in the improvement of the Harting poor by means of 

 schools. It is dated Sunday, 25th February, I749,f 

 two years after Sir Matthew's purchase of Uppark. 



Exall begins by reminding Caryll that last time he 

 was at Lady Holt, " as soon as I entered the Room, 

 you was pleased to fill up a large glasse of wine, and 

 desired me to drink it up, and then took me by the 

 hand and said, 'so long as my name is John Caryll 

 and your name is James Exall so long shall that room 

 be yours (except I pull it down).' Now, one William 

 Cumbridge is his enemy. " I wonder he should covet 

 that room from me, contrary to God's express com- 

 mand (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house), 



* The Caryll Correspondence closes in 1768. C. C., IX. 

 Add 1 - 28,235. 



f C. C., vii., Add 1 - 28,231, p. 54. 



