Excerpt from The County Lieutenancies and the Army, 1803-1814
The present volume may be described as an "overflow" from the History of the British Army. It owes Its existence principally to the Secretary of State for War, who, recognising the importance of the subject at the present time, kindly granted the writer a small subsidy to insure him against loss through its publication. But for this help, for which I desire to express my grateful thanks, the matter here printed must have been packed into some twenty or thirty pages only. As things stand, the twenty or thirty pages have been expanded into ten times that number; and if, as I fear, the ordinary reader finds them impossible to read, I can only assure him that I have found them maddening to write.
The subject of the recruiting of the Army during the Great War has, so far, been left in complete obscurity; nor, in my belief, could it be fully cleared up without examination of the papers (if they still exist) of every Lord-Lieutenant and of a great many Deputy-Lieutenants, of masses of municipal archives, and of tons of provincial newspapers. Such a task would occupy the best part of any one man"s lifetime; and I need not say that I have not attempted it.
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