ROBERT UVEDALE. 18 
The house seems to have been presented by Edward VI., 
in 1552, to his sister Elizabeth, who frequently stayed here for a 
ime. 
Whether he was the inventor of the homely preventive of in- 
fection or not, it is related of Uvedale that during the outbreak of 
the plague in 1665, his whole household escaped the disease, owing, 
it was thought, to their inhaling the vapour of vinegar poured over 
a red- chad brick. 
t was made a ground of complaint against Uvedale, in 1676, 
that he nacloaten the grammar-school, not, as has been stated, for 
; he 
his botanical tastes a nigh i a fashionable eapr ae Among his 
ardent hacieks ” Francis , Earl of Rintitiedon ; Robert, 
Visco isa Kilmorey, who died in "1717, whilst at the school ; ‘Sir 
Jeremy Sambroke ; and, as appears from one of Uvedale’s letters 
to Sloane (Sloane MS. 4064), William Sloane and another pee 
of the great collector. 
As to his pupils, however, the most Ecco point is 
Silane the tradition that to one of them we owe the introduction 
of the Cedar of Lebanon. The tradition is that he commissioned 
one of them who travelled to bring him a plant from Mount 
Lebanon, and that the tree now at Enfield, hist ae doctor un- 
doubtedly planted, was brought, in response to this request, in a 
we have oO 
Panter before 1688, 1683, the date when the Chelsea trees were planted. 
Tn 1788 this fine cedar was 45 feet 9 in a es es high, after losing 
9 feet in a storm, and Loudon gives its height in 1835 as 64 feet, 
8 inches. In 1794 it lost a large limb. In 1809, Lysons gives its 
1821 it is stated to have been 19 feet 9 inches at a foot from the 
ground, 15 feet 8 inches fe 3 feet, and 14 feet at 6 feet. Detailed 
besides the thumb-nail sketch of the tree in Loudon's Arboretum 
Britannicum, iv. 2404, Fig. 2269, it is figured in Strutt’s Sylva 
Britannica, and Robinson’: s History of Enfield. Though it has 
suffered slightly from storm and snow during the last few years, 
is magnificent tree is not only still vigorous, but is undoubtedly 
steadily. increasing in girth and in the spread of its branches. 
I saw some Lge cones on one branch of it, on October 24th, 1890, 
but they were not so superabundant as to show unhealthiness, and, 
though several of its limbs have to be propped up, the tree gives no 
* Ford, History of Enjield, p. 25. Robinson, p. 103—7. 
+ His opponents made the curious charge against him of having obtained 
from the Lord Chamberlain an i er: mn as an actor and comedian at the 
Theatre Royal, to — him from the execution of a bond issued ag: him. 
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