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As it does not fall within our province to deal with any history 
but Natural History, we do not propose to say much of the arche- 
ological portion of this book, but to confine our remarks chiefly to 
a notice of the fauna and flora of the parish, with which the latter 
 halfof the volume is occupied. It may be observed, however, that in 
addition to what may be termed the ordinary sources of information, 
above indicated, Mr. Gordon has gleaned many curious details of the 
present history of Harting from a large collection of MSS. known 
as the “ Caryll Correspondence” preserved in the British Museum, 
and relating to the affairs of one of the oldest Sussex families 
located at Harting. A curious history attaches to these papers, 
which were left behind when the last of the Carylls took service in 
the French army in 1767, and were accidentally discovered some 
years ago, together with a mass of other documents, stowed up in 
boxes, rotted with damp, and preyed upon by vermin. 
From Mr. Gordon’s point of view, the history of his parish is to 
be collected from the history of the three principal families who 
resided in it, the Husseys, the Fords, and the Carylls, and he has 
subdivided his subject accordingly. Referring to the connection 
between the English surname and the name of the parish, in its 
various forms of spelling, he remarks that William of Wykeham’s 
first head master of Winchester College was Richard de Herton, 
“venerabilis et discretus vir Richardus de Herton grammaticus,” 
as he is called in a deed of 1373, wherein he binds himself to 
William of Wykeham to teach the boys at Winchester for ten 
years. “Richard de Herton” would in modern form be “Richard 
Harting,” “Herton” being the local pronunciation of the name at 
the present day. 
It is perhaps not generally known that Gilbert White possessed 
property in this parish, for none of his biographers have referred 
to it. The fact is thus mentioned by Mr. Gordon :— 
“For at least forty years (1754—1792) Gilbert White was an Hast 
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 opposite the ‘ Severals’ Wood, Gilbert White's 
farm, extending nearly to the station. White had also other Harting lands. 
These were upon the Downs, viz.—a portion of the park of Uppark on the 
south side, and a portion of Kildevil Lane on the North Marden side of 
Harting Hill. Gilbert White was on his mother’s side a Ford; and these 
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