April 15. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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HAKDMANS ACCOUNT OF WATERLOO. 



(Vol. viii., p. 199. ; Vol. ix., p. 176.) 



I perfectly recollect reading, when a boy, a 

 critique on this poem, and being much amused 

 thereby. The critique appeared in the Literary 

 Gazette or Athenaeum, as well as I remember. 

 I never saw the poem, but I recollect some of the 

 lines quoted, which went nearly as follows : — 



" The following morning, at break of day, 

 An orderly dragoon did come this way : 

 ' Holloa ! holloa ! I say, give ear, 

 Is Adjutant Hardman quartered here? 

 Holloa ! halloa ! I am not wrong, 

 Is Adjutant Hardman here at home?'" 



I merely quote from memory ; and hope, there- 

 fore, that any deviations from the original may be 

 pardoned. 



Lieutenant (Brevet Captain) Hardman, if not 

 a first-rate poet, is a gallant soldier, and I re- 

 joice to see his name in the Army List for March, 

 1854. I cannot ascertain at what period he 

 joined the army, but he was present at the 

 cavalry engagements of Sahagun and Benevente, 

 on December 20th and 27th, 1808, on the retreat 

 of Sir John Moore's army to Coruna, for which 

 he is decorated with a Peninsula medal. For his 

 bravery as a non-commissioned officer he was 

 promoted, May 19, 1813, to a cornetcy in the 

 royal wagon train ; and was transferred, August 12 

 following, to the 23rd Light Dragoons, and 

 was same day appointed Regimental Adjutant of 

 that corps. On the almost total change of officers 

 that took place in the 10th Hussars, owing to the 

 quarrels of Colonels Quentin and Palmer, Lieu- 

 tenant Hardman succeeded Captain Bromley, on 

 December 15, 1814, as Lieutenant and Adjutant 

 in the corps in which he had commenced his 

 military career; a sufficient proof of his having 

 been a zealous, active, and efficient non-commis- 

 sioned officer, when serving as such in the regi- 

 ment. He embarked at Ramsgate with the ser- 

 vice squadrons of his regiment in April, 1815, and 

 landed at Ostend, whence the 10th regiment pro- 

 ceeded to Brussels : it was present at Quatre 

 Bras, although not engaged with the enemy : and 

 at Waterloo it behaved with the greatest gal- 

 lantry, and lost two officers, nineteen soldiers, and 

 fifty-one horses killed, in addition to six officers 

 and twenty-six men wounded. Lieutenant Hard- 

 man's position as adjutant necessarily kept him 

 in the vicinity of his commanding officers, Col. 

 Quentin and Major Howard ; therefore he was an 

 eye-witness of poor Howard's death. Lieutenant 

 Hardman received the Waterloo medal. The 

 10th Hussars landed at Ramsgate, from Boulogne, 

 in January, 1816, and marched to Brighton, 

 where Lieutenant Hardman resigned the adju- 

 tantcy, February 8, 1816, and exchanged to half- 



pay of the regiment, June 6, same year, since 

 which period he has not served upon full pay. 



G. L. S. 



CHURCHES IN "DOMESDAY BOOK. 



(Vol. viii., p. 151.) 



A. W. H. says, " In the case of many parishes 

 it is stated [in Domesday Book], that there was a 

 church there : is it considered conclusive authority 

 that there was not one, if it is not mentioned in 

 Domesday Book ? " This question has, I doubt 

 not, often engaged the attention of antiquaries; 

 and I am somewhat surprised that the Query has 

 elicited no reply. The conclusion has often been 

 drawn that, no church being mentioned, none 

 existed before the survey. It would appear this 

 conclusion has been an erroneous one. In the 

 last volume issued by the Chetham Society (Do- 

 cuments relating to the Priory of Penwortham, and 

 other Possessions in Lancashire of the Abbey of 

 Evesham, edited by W. A. Hulton, Esq.) that 

 point is ably discussed ; and as Mr. Hulton's 

 views on a subject of so much interest cannot 

 but be valuable, I venture to extract them, as 

 worthy of a place in " N. & Q." He says : 



" Donations of churches with tithes are made directly 

 after the survey of Domesday was taken. And yet that 

 survey is entirely silent as to their existence. Similar 

 omissions have given rise to doubts, whether the in- 

 stitution of our parochial economy had been carried 

 out to its full extent previous to the Conquest, and 

 whether we are not indebted to the Normans for its 



full perfection. Such doubts are unfounded 



There is nothing in Domesday to justify the doubts al- 

 luded to. A consideration of the objects of that survey 

 will dissipate them : the purpose was principally finan- 

 cial. It was directed so as to obtain a correct account 

 of the taxable property within the kingdom. And it 

 was immaterial whether the proceeds were paid alto- 

 gether to the owner, or a definite portion was diverted 

 into other channels. Therefore those churches which 

 were endowed only with tithes of the surrounding dis- 

 tricts, as Eccleston and Croston, Penwortham and 

 Leyland, in Leyland Hundred, and Rochdale and 

 Eccles, in Salford Hundred, were unnoticed, although 

 the two first-named churches were granted by Roger 

 de Poictou, with their tithes and other appurtenances, 

 to the Priory of Lancaster ; and the pages of the 

 Coucher Book of Whalley prove the two latter churches 

 to have existed at a date perhaps anterior to the Con- 

 quest. But the case was different when a church was 

 endowed with glebe-land. Such a church appeared in 

 the light of a landowner, and in that character is its 

 existence notified. Thus, in modern Lancashire, south 

 of the Ribble, the churches of Wigan and Winwick, 

 Childwall, Walton, Warrington, Manchester, Black- 

 burn, and Whalley are expressly named in Domesday, 

 but invariably in connexion with the ownership of 

 land. It seems clear, therefore, that the silence of 

 Domesday cannot be urged as a proof of the non-exist- 



