Barons of the Exchequer, in whose tenure it seems to have been from 1635, till his death in 1656. About the year 1660, "the Palace" was let to Dr. Robert Uvedale, Master of the Grammar School, who, being much attached to the study of botany, had a large and curious garden in which he cultivated a choice collection of exotics. Among others he had a cedar, said to have been brought in a portmanteau from Lebanon, by one of his pupils, and planted by himself, which has since become much celebrated for its beauty and size, being probably the largest in England, and but little inferior in girth to the largest tree on Mount Lebanon.

It was destined to be cut down by the late Dr. Callaway soon after he purchased the Palace,-the sawpit was actually prepared and the trench dug round it ready for the axe, but at the earnest request of the late Mr. Gough and Dr. Sherwen the tree was spared. Although it has suffered much from storms and high winds, it is still a magnificent tree, and forms a conspicuous object from many parts of Enfield.

In 1792 a great part of the original Palace was pulled down, and several dwelling houses built upon the site. It formerly consisted of a centre and two wings facing the west, with bay windows and high gables. The wings bore the arms of England, with supporters, and the letters E. R., the same as on the chimney piece before mentioned.

After the death of Eliab Breton, the descendant of Sir N. Raynton, this property was purchased by Daniel

Lister, Esq., in whose family it still remains.

It was for many years in the tenantcy of the late Dr. May, as a first class boarding school, and it still retains all its deserved reputation under its present accomplished master, W. Nutter Barker, B.A., F.R.A.S.

In the time of Edward the Confessor, the Manor of Enfield was valued at £50, and bore the same value in the survey of Domesday. In the reign of Edward I. (1303) it was valued at only £34 3s. Id. In that of Edward III. (1337) its extent and value are thus described:"A capital messuage, 13s. 4d.; a garden of herbs, 5s.; a dove house, 5s.; four hundred and twenty acres of arable in demesne, sixpence an acre; sixty-three acres of meadow, 3s.; and thirty-nine other acres of meadow, one shilling only; twenty-four acres of pasture, 35.; a park called "The Frith," or Old Park, whence twenty acres of underwood, worth 3s. an acre might be sold annually; another called the Great Park, or Chase, which was of common pasture and no underwood, worth 50s. per annum. There were fish ponds also,* whence fish might be sold every seventh year to the amount of 15 marks."

To this Manor belongs a view of frankpledge; courts leet and baron are held in Whitsun-week, and on

* Old Pond, New Pond, Sloper's Pond, Ranmey Reach Pond, and Monkey Mead Pond, all long since drained and filled up.

November 5th, when a constable and two headboroughs are chosen for the town quarter, with a brander and aleconner; a constable, headborough, and brander, for Bull's-cross quarter; and two headboroughs, a brander, and a hayward for Green-street. The annual fines did not exceed £16. The Court Rolls were burnt by accident many years ago, and the present books begin in 1705.

The value of the fee simple of these quit rents was deducted from the allotments under the Enclosure Act, and their estates exonerated and for ever discharged, from the 29th September, 1803.

THE OLD PARK.

"In the early surveys of the Manor of Enfield, the Old Park (so called in contradistinction from the Little Park or New Park, near White-webbs) is sometimes called the Frith,* and sometimes Parcus Intrinsecus,' or the Home Park, to distinguished it from the Chase, which was called 'Parcus Extrinsecus,' and sometimes the Great Park."

"It was formerly the home park of the ancient Manorial Palace of Enfield, at which the Princess

* FRITH is used by Chaucer for a wood, an open space among woods.