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eighteenth century became sickly and dwindling ; and 

 the last John Caryll seems to have been a man strong 

 neither in mind or body, spoilt in childhood, effeminate 

 in manhood, from first to last overwhelmed with debt, 

 but happily not in a coarser sense immoral. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 ODDS AND ENDS. 



THE year 1767, in which Lady Holt was sold, may be 

 considered as forming the conclusion of the antiqui- 

 ties of Harting, which it has been my object to trace. 

 The more recent history of our village will doubtless 

 one day be handled by a far more able chronicler, who 

 will show how here, as elsewhere, the old order ceased, 

 yielding to the new, and how the new in its turn soon 

 became old. I shall use this last chapter, therefore, as 

 a postscript, and shall store it, after the manner of 

 gentler writers, with miscellaneous materials. 



And first in point of interest, we must record the 

 connection of Harting with Rev. Gilbert White of 

 Selborne, the father of Modern Natural History. For 

 at least forty years (1754 1792), Gilbert White was 

 an East Harting Squire. The bulk of his property 

 was at Woodhouse and Nye Woods, on the northern 

 slope of East Harting, and bounded on the west by 

 the road to Harting station. The passenger from 

 Harting to the Railway has on his right, immediately 



