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and Family Names,' Ferguson's ' Surnames as a Science,' Bardsley's ' English Surnames,' and Weekley's ' Romance of Names,' but in all of them Wyper is conspicuous by its absence.

Regarding the quaint transformation of Ypres into " Wipers," it may be pointed out that there is really nothing ridiculous, nor even essentially ignorant, about such a change made in a word that is foreign to our ears and strange to our eyes. The supposedly greater learning of the superior person already referred to might have en- abled him to recognize the change as merely an illustration of the natural tendency in language to transform the unfamiliar into something that has a familiar appearance. The classic example may be mentioned of our Jack Tars of Nelson's day rechristening the captured French battleship Bellerophon 3>y the more homely, but very picturesque name of " Billy Ruffian."

CHARLES MENMTTIR, M.A. 25 Garseabe Lane, Glasgow.

ADDENDUM TO NOTE ON DR. ROBERT UVEDALE. (See ante,pp. 361, 384, 404, 423, 447, 467.) May I be allowed to make what I hope may be a final addendum to my long note on Dr. Uvedale of Enfield ? Several correspondents have been kind enough to "write to me rather than trespass, I pre- sume, on the valuable space of ' N. & Q.' making a few interesting emendations and additions to what I had written above . But I feel that anything in the nature of a cor- rection of, or of an addition of any value to, what has appeared in ' N. & Q.' is also worth its preservation there, if only to save possible mistakes in future.

With reference to the suggestion I had advanced {p. 424) as to Dr. Uvedale's con- nexion with the old garden and house at Enfield, now known as " Uvedale House ; " the present head master of the Enfield Grammar School, Mr. E. M. Eagles, has sent me the following note :

" In speaking of ' Uvedale House,' you refer to the interesting collection of plants in the garden thereof- When I first came to Enfield (January, 1909) ' Uvedale House ' was occupied by a Miss Boswell. She gave me to understand that the excellent collection of plants in her garden was due to a former curate of the parish church (Mr. Egles) who used to lodge with her. He was devoted to gardening, and introduced many rare plants into her ground."

The " Miss Boswell " mentioned in Mr. Eagles's letter was, I understand, a descen- dant or a connexion of Dr. Johnson's Bos- -well. An early copy of the great Dictionary

and other Johnson papers were formerly on the premises.

With reference to my account of the find- ing on the bookstall in the Farringdon Road in 1900 of the old Hebrew Bible formerly belonging to Dr. Uvedale (p. 424), your old correspondent MR. C. HALL CROUCH writes to me as follows :

" With reference to your valuable articles in ' N. & Q.' regarding Dr. Robert Uvedale, it may interest you to know that it was. I who found the fragment of Dr. Uvedale's Hebrew Bible, and after having had it bound and inserted the notes you mention, I presented it to the Enfield Grammar School through my friend Mr. Ridewood.*

" A reference to the gift appeared in The Enfield Grammar School Magazine for May, 1902 ; and I also wrote a short account of the find more particularly to put the entries on record for The Genealogical Magazine. It appeared in vol. vi. p. 109."

Generally on my paper Mr. J. W. Ford, a former Governor of the Enfield Grammar School, to whose interest in the school I had referred at p. 423, has sent me the following interesting letter :

" Yes, it was entirely my doing that the Uvedale arms were worn on the boys' caps, and I got the matter approved and passed by my fellow Governors.

" The etching of the Palace cedar (I measured the cedar circa 1900, and found it much grown since 1821) a very clever thing was done by F. C. Lewis, who lived for many years in Enfield ; he was drawing master to the Princess Charlotte, and etched the ' Rivers of Devonshire ' ; he was the father of ' Spanish Lewis ' and George, the engraver who engraved most of Landseer's pictures.

" Archbishop Tillotson lived in Edmonton, not Enfield ; his house in the high road was pulled down about thirty years ago.

" The garden you saw beyond the school, which you fancied might have been Uvedale's retreat, was lived in for many years by the Rev. C. H. Eagles, a curate at the church, a great botanist and lover of herbaceous plants and shrubs, who planted everything you saw, and called his home ' Uvedale Cottage.'

" None of the old school has ever been pulled down ; its restoration, in the best sense of the word, was superintended by my father, one of the Governors ; and he built and gave to the school the house in which the master lives at a cost of 1,2001., in memory of my mother. Tho next building is the hall, and next the chemical annexe and laboratory, which was built to please Mr. Ridewood.

" ' Worcester's ' (p. 361) is one of Robinson's mistakes ; that name and ' The Manor House ' belonged to the other Enfield Palace pulled down by the Commonwealth, built by Sir Thomas Lovell, Marquess of Worcester, Chancellor to Henry VIII., to whom he left it."

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


 * The preceding head master.