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The date of his marriage to Mary Stephens and consequent relinquishment of his fellow- Ship at Trinity is not given, but it was probably, as I have said, not long prior to 1679 ; for althotigh no dates are given of the birth of any of his children in the pedigree in Hutchins, I have been able to obtain that information from another source to which I will refer later, and from which it is clear that none of his numerous family was born before that year.

In 1682 he took the degree of LL.D. at Cambridge ; and in 1696 his friend and neighbour at Enfield, Archbishop Tillotscn, presented him to the rectory of Orpington in Kent, together with the chapelry of St. Mary Cray. This appointment, apparently, did not involve any obligation of residence.

Uvedale continued to li/e at Enfield, where he died on Aug. 17, 1722, and was buried in the parish church of St. Andrew, the year after his son, Robert Uvedale, D.D. also a Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb. had been appointed to the vicariate there, a college living.

Mr. Boulger states that on a recent visit to Enfiejd he could find no monument to the botanist then in existence. This may be accounted for by the fact that, according to the statement of his great-grandson the last of the Robert Uvedales, and author of the pedigree in Hutchins his " hatch- ment " had been removed to I^angton Church, co. Lincoln. This probably was on the occasion when the botanist's grandson, the third Robert Uvedale also a Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb., and D.D. of that Uni- versity was presented to the living of Langton by Bennet Langton, Esq., of that parish, whose daughter Diana, the sister of Bennet Langton the younger, the friend of Dr. Johnson as to whose sisters inquiry was recently made in ' N. & Q.' (11 S. xii. 342) this Robert Uvedale married.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Inner Temple.

(To be continued.)

THE LADY GODIVA AND THE COUNTESS LUCY.

THE pedigree of the Countess has been a great puzzle to genealogists, who have even suggested to get over the chronological difficulties that there were two Lucys, mother and daughter. They never seem to have suspected that a father and a daughter, orn in his old age, could so upset reasonable ates as they do. There are, however, well-

authenticated instances in modern times. In the following pedigree suggested dates of birth are given in parentheses, which clearly show that such was the case in regard to the Countess, and nearly all the difficulties vanish.

The Coventry legend is not unlike the daring freak of an old widower's lively, charming, and impulsive young wife, acting more in opposition to her husband's wishes than even from a desire to show her sympathy with the townsfolk. This may have hap- pened in the very year Earl Leofric died (1057), leaving by her a young child named Lucy, or Lucy may have been born even some months later. The Earl's son, and perhaps some unrecorded daughters, by a former wife, were evidently, by a study of dates, already grown up. On the other hand, Lucy must have been last a mother as late as 1095.

The statement that she was the daughter of Earl Algar made by the forged ' Ingulph ' -. is untenable^ because a sister of Harold's Queen was hardly likely to remain unrecorded, in some chronicle at least.

This was written before I had seen the late Chancellor Ferguson's most interesting ' History of Cumberland,' but he adopted the two Lucy theory.

Dr. Round has shown that Thorold of Lincoln, as sheriff, was living 1076-9, as limited by the other witnesses to the docu- ment quoted (' Feudal England,' p. 329).

Ivon, it appears, gave the church of Spalding to the Abbey of St. Nicholas at Angers for the souls of King William and Queen Matilda, himself, his wife Lucy, and the ancestors of Thorold, namely, his wife's a statement which seems to confirm her being a daughter of Thorold's sister Godiva, at least if he had only one.

In November, 1088, Rufus instructed Ivon Tailbois and Ernes de Burun to take possession of Durham Castle the bishop having been exiled which they did on 14th inst., according to Simeon. In 1090, if we may trust the date to his charter, Rufus summoned the bishops and magnates to meet him at Lincoln. Ranulf Meschin and Ivon both witnessed it (' Moil. Angl.,' vi. 1270). The King was considering how he could best deal with the lawless condition of Cumberland and reduce it to peace and order. He first arranged, for safe communication with Richmond Castle and York, two ward -baronies. One was Kentdale ; the other and more important one, the route of the Roman road from York to Carlisle. The former he entrusted to Ivon