HISTORY OF HARTING. 



Always averse to change, the poor to this day have 

 their legend that the last Caryll was only dispossessed 

 of West Harting through treachery ; while at the same 

 time the bounty of Lady Holt to all comers is still 

 remembered by some of our old minstrels. "When 

 the Carylls were at Lady Holt there was an archway, 

 something like Uppark, for the servants and travellers ; 

 and there was always a large cask of beer in this 

 passage with a chain on it and a harn (horn) : every 

 one that went there had to help themselves, and then 

 he (the horn) was filled again. . ; . . Sir Matthew let 

 him (Caryll) have the money to pay his score off. Sir 

 Matthew went to London, and Caryll started after 

 with the money to pay the mortgage, and Sir Matthew 

 paid the postboys to keep Caryll back : so he came 

 too late to London, and the mortgage was closed." 

 So the Harting cottager sings what is to him the fall 

 of Troy. He has no ill will against anyone, but he 

 cannot believe that what he does not like has been 

 done without wrong. Another tale is, that Caryll 

 drove two of his own horses dead on the road to 

 Guildford in this journey to London, and could get no 

 more. All this is merely the legendary leave-taking 

 of a favourite and hero of a century ago, whom every 

 one pitied for his misfortunes. The documents at the 

 British Museum show that the sale of Caryll's property 

 for a twenty-five years' purchase was in every way fair, 

 and, indeed, advantageous to Caryll. 



Thus, almost in the year in which the second Pretender 

 died without an heir* did the last of the Carylls, whose 

 destiny had been so closely connected with that of the 

 Stuarts, pass away from this village after a reign of 

 nearly two centuries. No doubt the fines imposed on 

 the property by the Commonwealth and by William 

 the Third were the main causes of the ruin of the 

 house : but the race from the commencement of the 



Pretender died Jan. 30, 1788. 



