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area that can be assigned for this incredible 

 number of religious edifices, with all their appur- 

 tenances, is one poor square mile ! 



Perhaps we may gain a clue to the facts of the 

 case by the following Note. Adjacent to Win- 

 chester, on the south-east, lies the parish of Chil- 

 combe, anciently Ciltecumbe, occupying a sort of 

 bay or basin between the downs, ending in St. 

 Giles's and St. Catherine's Hills. Of • this parish. 

 Sir Henry Ellis, in his General Introduction to 

 Domesday, vol. i. p. 190, n.^., remarks : " It is sin- 

 gular that it should be entered in the Survey as 

 having nine churches " (tom. i. fol. 41.) ; and adds, 

 " there is no accounting for this, without adverting 

 to the probability that it must have formerly in- 

 cluded a part of the suburb of Winchester." 

 These nine churches make a great figure in all the 

 local histories ; though others besides Sir Henry 

 Ellis have been puzzled to account not only for 

 the disappearance of eight of them without leaving 

 " a wrack behind," but still more for the existence 

 of so many in a place where, even in modern 

 times, the one little Norman church amply suf- 

 fices for the entire population of the parish. 



Turning to Domesday we read that the parish 

 was estimated at one hide and sixty- eight caru- 

 cates ; that in the domain were twelve carucates 

 and thirty villeins, and a hundred and fifteen 

 bordarii, with fifty-seven carucates. Then, it 

 proceeds, are nine " jecclae," and twenty serfs, and 

 four mills, &c. Now the insertion of churches 

 between borderers and serfs is highly improbable ; 

 but, instead of ecclesice, read, as Mr. C. Hook (a 

 gentleman well known to all investigators in the 

 reading-room of the British Museum) suggests to 

 me, ancillcB ; and not only are all the difficulties 

 cleared away, but you obtain a truer picture of 

 the condition of the parish, which does, to this 

 day, as Sir Henry observes, " include a part of 

 the suburb of Winchester." 



How much light this correction might throw 

 upon some parts of the Survey, we need not say : 

 but we should not employ it until its value has 

 been canvassed, and the MSS. examined, so that 

 we may proceed upon sure grounds to substitute 

 female serfs for churches in those other passages in 

 Domesday. B. B. Woodward. 



Bungay, Suflfolk. 



HAYDONS NOTES ON WATERLOO, ETC. 



I beg leave to send you the enclosed notes, written by 

 poor Haydon, the painter, in the margin of the volume of 

 Scott's Prose Works containing "Paul's Letters to his 

 Kinsfolk." He came to this town on a lecturing mission, 

 at the close of the year 1839, directly after his visit to 

 Walmer Castle ; where his enthusiastic feelings had been 

 excited to the highest degree by a tolerably free inter- 

 course with the Duke of Wellington. 



By means of the friend with whom lie was staying, he 

 procured the volume from the library, and he left his 



mark upon it in the form of these characteristic notes. 

 The edition is that in 12mo. of 1834. 



Robert Harrison. 

 Leeds Library. 



To the note at p. 115., about Guardsman Shaw, Hay- 

 don adds : — 



" I gave Sir Walter this : Wilkie and I had up 

 in my painting several Life-guards who were in 

 the battle ; one Hodgins heard some one groaning 

 in the yard of La Haye Sainte, where the wounded 

 had been removed. He turned, and found Shaw. 

 Shaw said, ' I am dying ; ' the other swooned away ; 

 but the pulling him into a spring cart, to take him 

 to Brussels, at day-break, roused him. He turned 

 to look for Shaw, who was dead, with his cheek 

 lying on his hand. Shaw was a model of mine, 

 and as strong as Hercules. I had 5 models in 

 the battle : 3 were killed, all distinguished them- 

 selves. I told the Duke this at Walmer, 1839 ; 

 and he was much interested. 



" B. R. Haydon. 

 "Dec. 9, 1839, Leeds." 



To the Duke's remark at p. 125., " Never mind, we'll 

 win this battle yet," Haydon annexes the following ob- 

 servation : — 



" This was the Austrian General Vincent, Mr. 

 Arbuthnot told me. He said to the Duke, in the 

 thick of the fight, 'You have got an infamous 

 army.' ' I know it,' said the Duke, ' but we'll win 

 the battle yet.' In his Dispatches he calls it ' the 

 most infamous army I have ever commanded.' 

 See Dispatches. — H." 



The statement concerning the death of Lieut.-Col. 

 Canning elicits the following, p. 126. : — 



" Lord Fitzroy told me the orderly who carried 

 the Duke's desk was killed. Canning picked it 

 up, and said, ' What shall I do with it ?' ' Keep 

 it,' said Lord Fitzroy, ' for the Duke.' Shortly 

 after, he was killed. The desk was found, rifled, 

 the next day." 



" The friend of ours," who, at p. 128., is said to have 

 had the courage to ask the Duke of Wellington whether 

 he looked often to the woods from which the Prussians 

 were expected to issue — 



" Was," says Haydon, " Sir Walter himself, 

 when at Paris. He told me so at his own table : 

 and," he continues, " I dined at Lord Palmer- 

 ston's 1833. On my right was Lord Hill. As he 

 lived at Westbourne Green, and I in Edgeware 

 Road, he set me down. While with him, as Sir 

 Walter had told me what he asked the Duke, I 

 determined not to let the moment slip, and said 

 to Lord Hill : ' Was there any part of the day 

 you despaired at Waterloo, my Lord ? ' ' Never,' 

 said Lord Hill, ' there was no panic ; we were a 

 little in advance, and I had never had for a 

 moment a doubt of the result. 



"Thus, here is the opinion of the first and 

 second in command. Commanders of Divisious, 



