10 ROBERT UVEDALE. 
The records of Uvedale’s name have been* traced back to the 
time of Henry III. Mr. Leveson Gower, to whom I am muc 
indebted for assistance, writes as follows :— 
: the origin of the name of Uvedale I cannot speak with 
thei call the name Woddall, and some call it Udall and some 
Wodhall and some have called it 
the right name is Uvedale:” 
The same writer in the Collectanea is further quoted by Mr. 
Leveson Gower as saying—‘ Sir William Woddall, president of 
Prince Arthur’s cownsaile in Wales, didde affirme that the olde 
name of the Unedale cam out of the northe cuntrie first, whic 
thing the said Sir William didde verifie to be trewe and that the 
howse of the Unedale was in ancient time attaintide in the northe 
es.” 
John de Uvedale married the heiress of Sir John de Scures of 
Wickham, Hants, who died in the twenty-seventh year of Edward 
IiI., and thus Wickham came to the Uvedales. One of the family 
is said to have been the first patron of William of Wykham, and a 
shield of Uvedale and Secures arms with the motto “ Tant que je 
puis,” is on the vaulting of the Lady Chapel of Winchester 
Cathedral, and the full arms, crest and supporters are on the one 
remaining stone of Wickham Manor, now on the north wall of the 
College Chapel. The family, says Mr. Leveson Gower, (op. cit. p. 3) 
were ‘‘connected with the county of Surrey for about three hundred 
and fifty years—from a.p. 1804 until1652. For nearly two hundred 
and fifty years—from a.p. 1804 to cir. 1540—they resided continuously 
at Titsey, being possessed of large estates in that neighbourhood, 
and elsewhere in the counties of Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, 
and Norfolk, One of their principal seats was at Wickham, in the 
county of Southampton, at which they fixed their residence 
altogether, after the sale of Titsey to Sir John Gresham, Kt., circa 
1540, and in later times a branch of the same family was settled 
at More Crichel, in Dorsetshire.” 
_ To Hampshire branch of the family probably belonged 
Nicholas Udall, master of Eton, who by writing Ralph Roister 
* Notices of the Family of Uvedale, of Titsey, Surrey, and Wickham, Hants. 
Granville Leveson Gower, M.P. Surrey Archeological Collections, 1865. 
