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LONDON, SATURDAY NOVEMBER !,, 191G.

CONTENTS. No. 45.

"NOTES : Queen Elizabeth's Palace, Enfleld, 361 English Army List of 1740, 364 ' The Reading Mercury,' 366 Poe, Margaret Gordon, and "Old Mortality "Henry Faunt- leroy, Forger, 367 A Few Pickwickiana, 368.

'QUERIES : Garland and Lester M.P.s, 368" The Holy Carpet "Letter of Keats : St. Jane-Butler's ' Analogy ' Authors Wanted' The Land o' the Leal,' 369-Grace Darling John Carpenter" Holme Lee " : J. Morgan- John Bradshaw's Library Books Wanted "Margarine" Definite Article with Names of Ships, 370.

-.REPLIES : Sir Philip Perceval, 371-Certain Gentlemen of the Sixteenth Century, 372 Bird Life in the Fens- Arms on Glass Punch-Bowl-Portraits in Stained Glass Eighteenth-Century Artist in Stained Glass, 874 Author Wanted Samuel Wesley the Elder Naval Records " Hat Trick," 375 Welthen The Sign Virgo" Yorker," 376 Drawing of Fort Jerome and H.M.8. Argo and Sparrow Watch House " Septem sine horis" Head- stones with Portraits Epitaphs in Old London and Suburban Graveyards, 377 The Butcher's Record- Negro Bandsmen in the Army' London Magazine ' World's Judgment Brassey Family Marshals of France, 378 English Pilgrimages Red Hair" Tefal," 379.


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QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE,

ENFIELD : DR. ROBERT UVEDALE, SCHOLAR

AND BOTANIST:

THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD. I. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD.

I SUPPOSE few persons would be otherwise than surprised at the end of but a ten miles journey from one of London's eastern railway termini, passing meanwhile through a ceaseless stream of bricks and mortar, to find themselves within a stone's throw of not only one of Queen Elizabeth's old palaces, but of the first cedar of Lebanon ever planted in England, and now, after some two centuries and a half of growth, still flourishing.

Yet it is so ; for standing but little back from the High Street of the now prosperous modern town of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, are to be seen the still substantial remains of one of Elizabeth's so-called hunting-palaces, now for some years occupied by the Enfield Constitutional Club, and previously used as the post office. F JHB

The history of the old palace is very interesting, and looms largely in the history

of Enfield ; whilst its connexion with the famous seventeenth-century botanist Dr. Robert Uvedale, who had a flourishing school there in the latter part of that century, lent it additional attraction in my eyes.

It was this connexion that led me, ac- companied by a lineal descendant of the old botanist, to pay it a visit last year, in the hope of recovering and recording something of interest before it was all swallowed up in the rapid outward spread of ever-growing London.

At the time I paid my visit I was unaware of the existence of Robinson's ' History of Enfield,' published so far back as 1823, and accordingly made many notes that perhaps I need not have done. But, whilst deferring to the excellent description that Mr. Robinson has given of the old palace, my account of what is still to be seen there nearly a century later seems to me not unworthy of your readers' attention. Taking Mr. Robinson (who was a member of the Middle Temple, and an LL.D. and F.S.A.) as my authority for many early deta-ils of the old building which do not now exist, or which are scarcely traceable, I will shortly state what I have gathered of its early history.

Mr. Robinson gives two engravings of the old Manor House, afterwards called " Queen Elizabeth's Palace," as existing in 1568 : one showing a large stone-mullioned building of two main stories, with two wings enclosing the approach to the main entrance, as usual in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses ; the other showing a north-east view of the same, with a handsome central column of mullioncd windows reaching to the roof. The house is said to have been anciently known as " Worcesters," and formerly belonged to the Tiptofts, Earls of Worcester. Rebuilt in Edward VI. 's time, it was by him given to his sister, the Princess Elizabeth, who was indeed resident at Enfield at the time of the death of her father, Henry VIII., at what was probably known then as the Manor House.

Mr. Robinson tells us that a great part of the structure of the Manor House, after- wards known as Queen Elizabeth's Palace, was pulled down in 1792, and separate buildings were erected with the old materials on the site. The remaining part had al-o experienced many alterations, but the interior which then remained had preserved many vestiges of its former splendour.

He speaks of the Palace, which formerly stood on the south side of the street, opposite the church and market-place, called Enfield