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when there are two or three rooms lies void in the 



house This suited mee best because of the 



largeness of the windows to give light, I being between 

 60 and 70 years of age, and my eyes dim 



" I remember, Sir, the last time I saw you at Lady 

 Holt you was pleased to ask me what school I had. 

 I answered but small, and that one of y r - Tenants 

 opposed me. You said you would speak to him your- 

 self, which I find you was so good as to do the next 

 day, but I think had not the desired effect, for a little 

 after S r- Matthew Fetherstone and his Lady came, and 

 their two Brothers, and the 2 latter vewed the Room 

 in order to allow me ,15 p. annum to teach a certain 

 number of Poore Children, but the same Farmer tould 

 the Lady I was Idle, &c., shee excused it by saying 

 ' Poverty makes some people worse : it may be for 

 want of Incorrigment ; ' another reported he douglited 

 I was to much Romishly inclined. One was for this 

 man to be Schoolmaster, another was for that man, 

 the Gent, said he thought they troubled themselves 

 with what they had not to do with. So the desine 

 dropt, and it was not done." James Exall was buried, 

 1777. 



This document carries with it its own evidence as to 

 the bad scholarship of one who was probably our first 

 schoolmaster, but it is also an interesting record of the 

 gentle-heartedness of Lady Sarah Fetherstonhaugh, a 

 daughter of the Lethieullier and Ironmonger family, 

 whose piety is still remembered at Harting. Probably 

 in order to prevent its becoming a permanent Poor 

 House, Harting Place was shortly after demolished : 

 and thus the two mansions of the Carylls passed away 

 with the family's downfal, and the Mortuary Chapel, 

 which was built at the time of their best days, has 

 long become, in its decay, a symbol of their worst. 



John Caryll, after the sale of Lady Holt, retired to 

 France, where it is said that he lived with some pre- 

 tension at a chateau (" Maison sur Seine ") near Paris, 

 and died in the army of France in 1780, aged 63. 



