12 ROBERT UVEDALE. 
— he graduated as B.A. in 1662, it was apparently entered as 
Uvedall.* He was elected Fellow in 1664, and is said to have been 
feet a Divinity Fellow and afterwards a Law Fellow. The sto ory 
goes that he had the singular honour of carrying his point against 
a no less powerful competitor than Sir Isaac Newton; the Master, 
Dr. Barrow, declaring in his favour on the ground that, as they 
were equal in literary attainments, he must give the prize to the 
senior. Uvedale is stated to have soon afterwards vacated his 
fellowship by marriage, and to have taken the school at Enfield.t 
ewton, however, was elected to a fellowship in October 1667, 
whilst Barrow did not become Master until 1672. Uvedale is 
stated by local historians to have come to Enfield between 1663 
and 1665, and was cer tainly there at the outbreak of the plague in 
the latter year. The advowson of Enfield being in the possession 
of his college probably directed his attention to the place, and he 
seems, almost upon first going there, to have taken a lease of the 
manor-house, commonly called Queen Elizabeth’s Palace, in order 
to supplement his salary as Master of the Grammar-school. The 
it was probably not until about 1679 that he vacated his fellowship 
oan. ag = 1666 he proceeded M. 
His wif s Mary, second daughter of Edward Stephens, of 
@necneta: ‘Gian stershire, and granddaughter of Sir ox praed 
Hale. She was born in 1656, and died in 1740, having had thr 
sons and five daughters 
Enfield Grammar- school, of which Uvedale was master, was 
founded in 1557 and restored in 1875. It adjoins the parish 
church (St. Andrew’s), and is little more than a hundred yards 
from the manor-house. 
This manor-house, which Uvedale took for his boarders, 
fine old mansion which had been mainly re-built in Elizabeth's 
reign, being, like many other houses of the time, on the plan of the 
letter E, i. e., with two wings and a front central porch. A goo 
deal of the building was pulled down in 1789 and 1792; but there 
- two views of it, and of the two fine carved mantelpieces, still 
in it, in Robinson's History of Enjield (2 vols., Lond., 
1893), There is also an engraving of the house in ‘Lysons’ 
Environs of London, vol. i. Though reduced in size, the old house 
re 
room and drawing-room ceiling ornamented with crowns, roses, 
thistles and fleurs-de-lis. Both the carved over-mantels are now in 
the dining-room. It has continued to be a school from Uvedale’s 
time, and is now, as the Palace School, in the hands of E. L. 
Hogarth, Esq., M.A., who kindly gave me all the information in 
his possession. 
seal ose Cantabrigienses, where his sons and grandsons, &c., 
Correpondece Ae Richard Richardson, M.D., Yarmouth, 1835, 15. 
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