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 and polychrome vellum prayer-book presented to the queen in 1578, may also be by Ubaldini's hand, as certainly is a partially illuminated Latin prayer-book presented to her in 1580, now in the Huth Library (Cat. v. 1).



UCHTRED. [See .] |

UCHTRYD (the Welsh form of Uhtred) (d. 1148), bishop of Llandaff, was archdeacon of Llandaff in the time of Bishop Urban (1107–1153), and in that character attests the agreement drawn up in 1126 between the bishop and Earl Robert of Gloucester (Liber Landavensis, ed. 1893, p. 29). In 1131 he was one of Urban's envoys in the matter of the dispute with the sees of Hereford and St. David's (ib. pp. 60, 64). He was clearly a Welshman (the name is not uncommon at this period), and probably married, since ‘Brut y Tywysogion’ (Oxford Bruts, p. 328) mentions a daughter Angharad, who became the wife of Iorwerth ab Owain, of the Welsh line of Caerllion. Upon Urban's death in 1134 he was elected to the see of Llandaff, and in 1140 was consecrated by Archbishop [q. v.] (Continuator of ) He did not continue the barren litigation as to the boundaries and privileges of the see which occupied so much of Urban's episcopate, and appears only in minor controversies with the priory of Goldcliff ( and, Councils, i. 346–7) and the abbey of St. Peter's, Gloucester (Historia et Cartularium Sancti Petri, ed. Hart, ii. 14). He died in 1148, a date given by the ‘Annals of Tewkesbury,’ and to be inferred from the notices in the ‘Bruts’ and ‘Annales Cambriæ.’ According to the Gwentian ‘Brut’ (Myvyrian Archaiology, 2nd ed. p. 711), the famous [q. v.] was Uchtryd's nephew and adopted son, and Mr. Gwenogfryn Evans believes (preface to edition of 1893) that the ‘Liber Landavensis’ in its original form was compiled by Geoffrey at Llandaff under his uncle's patronage. That Uchtryd had a nephew called Geoffrey is shown by the occurrence of ‘Galfrido sacerdote nepote episcopi’ among the witnesses to a charter of his dated 1146 (Cartulary of St. Peter's, Gloucester, ii. 55), but the author of the ‘History of the Kings of Britain’ is not supposed to have been ordained priest until 1152 ( and, Councils, i. 360). The chapter of St. David's, in a letter to Eugenius III of about 1145, accuse Uchtryd of illiteracy and immorality; it is possible, however, that the document, the knowledge of which is due to the zeal of Giraldus Cambrensis on behalf of the claims of St. David's, may be spurious (, Works, iii. 56–8, 187–8).



UDALL. [See also .]

UDALL, EPHRAIM (d. 1647), royalist divine, was son of [q. v.] (, Life of Whitgift, p. 345, folio). He was admitted a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in July 1606, proceeded B.A. in 1609, and commenced M.A. in 1614. On 20 Sept. 1615 he was appointed perpetual curate of Teddington (, p. 426). On 27 Nov. 1634 he was presented to the rectory of St. Augustine's, Watling Street, London. For a long time he was regarded as one of the shining lights of the puritan party, but after the breaking out of the great rebellion in 1641 he declared himself to be in favour of episcopacy and the established liturgy. He was, in consequence of this, charged with being popishly affected, and the Long parliament, on 29 June 1643, made an order that he should be ejected from his rectory, and that the rents and profits should be sequestered for [q. v.], a ‘godly, learned, and orthodox divine’ (Commons' Journals, iii. 148). His house was plundered and his books and furniture were taken away. Afterwards his enemies sought to commit him to prison, and they carried his aged and decrepit wife out of doors by force and left her in the open street (, Mercurius Rusticus, 1646, pp. 131–133). Udall, who is described by Wood as ‘a man of eminent piety, exemplary conversation, profound learning, and indefatigable industry,’ died in London on 24 May 1647 (, Obituary, ed. Ellis, p. 24). (1594–1672) [q. v.] preached his funeral sermon, which was published under the title of ‘Lazarus his Rest’ (London, 1647, 4to).

Udall was the author of:  ‘Τὸ πρέπον εὐχαριστικόν, i.e. Communion Comlinesse. Wherein is discovered the conveniency of 