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women and children out of the way when Mounseer 

 should come, and how one valiant Harting family (the 

 Scardefields,* former bailiffs of the Carylls) set to and 

 drank all their wine, that the French should not have 

 it. Mrs. Scardefield was a French Protestant refugee, 

 and had probably seen how these things were done in 

 France. About this time the military road behind 

 Down Place was thrown up, an escarpment for cannon 

 being still traceable. The Tower of Uppark had a 

 peaceful origin to commemorate the coming of age 

 of Sir H. Fetherstonhaugh, 1778. It was burnt down 

 in 1830. 



The relief of 1815 is still more vividly remembered. 

 The children and old wives stopped at home to mind 

 the house. Beer ran in the streets, and the men strut- 

 ted about wearing gilt laurel leaves in their hats. The 

 London coach road from Ramshill to Petersfield was 

 illuminated. 



In 1816, before the purchase of Strathfield-saye, 

 the great Duke of Wellington had some idea of 

 choosing Uppark as the nation's gift to the conqueror 

 of Waterloo. The late Duke of Richmond married a 

 daughter of the first Marquis of Anglesey in 1817; 

 his mother, a daughter of the fourth Duke of Gordon, 

 Duchess of Richmond, wrote to Sir H. Fetherstonhaugh 

 (in 1816) asking him if he could find out whether "Sir 

 Jervoise Clarke's place is to be sold, or Stansted, as 

 she is anxious to have the Duke of Wellington in 

 either of these places, which might be purchased for 

 him out of the Grant made to him by the Nation." 



Mr. George White, tailor, is a descendant of the Scardefields. 

 The name of Scardefield has disappeared at Harting in com- 

 pany with those of Sherlock, Crossweller, Chantrell, Argentyne, 

 and Talenter. To the searchers for rare female names, the 

 following from the old Registers may be interesting. Petronell 

 (1605), Annice or Annis (common), Barbaire (Barbara), Sysley or 

 Cicely, Phillis, Jellyan (Gyllean), Em. (for Emily), Margerye 

 (Valour sert. and d r - in law to Rich. Rickman, 1584), Ozeman 

 (1594). Boys names : Myles, Eustance, Raynold and Raphe. 



