16 ROBERT UVEDALE. 
‘The war,” he writes, ‘hinders all foreign sommemiondenes./’ 
Tulips, it seems, did not thrive at North Bierley, ag would Cal 
ceolus ‘stay long with” Uvedale at Enfield 1712 “an 
ignorant fellow polled [it] up officiously for a dock, a3 he told [his 
master] he thoug 
Already, in fa Pri: " Uvedale speaks of himself as growing 0 old, 
mentioning that he cored ‘* a young Gardener, a son of mine (who is 
beneficed in Gloucestershire), to set up this year,” and that his 
furniture has t inset ” “This garden]. This was his son James. 
11, in which year, as we learn from Samuel Dale’s 
herbarium, that botanist visited Enfield, Uvedale became seriously 
ill from a tumour, pronounced by a consultation of friends, both 
physicians eee Anrees ons, to be ‘‘celes aquosus”’; but in December, 
1714, he writes :— 
“eT ike God I have no return of my former pare macsoreet but 
enjoy as much health as I ye Feanneeyy hope for at my year 
In August, 1718, he wr 
‘¢ Dr. Sherard has Beant” es kind as to give me ge company and 
assistance in correcting my Hortus siccus, which is but meanly 
furnished, and most out of my own garden, which Saucon be sup- 
posed to afford much, though it has been aed Lata of a great 
many plants which have grown there in half a ey 
In a letter dated the following January, He saya: 
‘*T am beholden Be — for the eT imperfect of the 
first and second gen I am very poor in Fuci, Alga, Musci ; : 
some of the last sort Mr. Doody, when alive, : Bestonred upon me.’ 
After this Richardson sent him some mosses. In December, 
1721, when he was over seventy-nine, he writes that he has been 
for the first time attacked by gout, which he seems never to have 
got over. He says that he never in his life ‘‘ was a good trencher- 
man,’’ that his garden has to be neglected, all the exercise he can 
take being ‘‘ rumbling about four or five miles every a before 
dinner in [his] chariot,” and his chie f rem aining pleasure con- 
sisting ‘‘in turning over [his] Hortus Siccus.” 
In 1696, Archbishop Tillotson, his pean: posse? at Enfield, who 
whatever his theological or ef alves heterodoxy, seems generally to 
ve patronised learning, had mn him the rectory of Orpington, 
in Kent, to which St. Mary Cray’ was attached as a chapelry. Like 
many other rectors of his tin time, Uvedale appears to have been entirely 
ol resident. At all events it was at Enfield that he died, on August 
th, 1722, and in the parish church of St. Andrew there, within a 
tie s-throw of his house and school, that he was buried. On recently 
visiting the church I was unable to find any monument tothe botanist, 
and his great-grandson states that the hatchment to his memory was 
hortus siccus were sold either pie oe for, her. erard writes to 
Richar on October 13th, ‘‘T shall go next week to 
see Mrs. ‘Uvsilate; in order rn Chink “of disposing of the plants. 
len 
* Richardson Correspondence, p. 189. 
