Middlesex; . ed for a remnant of building used tillthe other day as the Post-Office, at the present momentproclaimed to let. In front this looks across theMarket Place to the tower of the Church, the interiorof which gains roomy effect from its prolonged aislesand sunken floor ; and it has monuments to show, themost remarkable being Lady Tiptofts ancient altar-tomb, and the family group of effigies commemoratinga Lord Mayor of Charles Is. time. Beside this church are the new buildings of theGrammar School, which under Charles II. occupiedthe Old Palace, when its master was Dr. Uvedale, thebota
Middlesex; . ed for a remnant of building used tillthe other day as the Post-Office, at the present momentproclaimed to let. In front this looks across theMarket Place to the tower of the Church, the interiorof which gains roomy effect from its prolonged aislesand sunken floor ; and it has monuments to show, themost remarkable being Lady Tiptofts ancient altar-tomb, and the family group of effigies commemoratinga Lord Mayor of Charles Is. time. Beside this church are the new buildings of theGrammar School, which under Charles II. occupiedthe Old Palace, when its master was Dr. Uvedale, thebotanist, by whom is said to have been planted thefirst cedar in England, still flourishing royally at theback of this building. A fruitful private seminary isnow ill-represented by the Great Eastern station, thefine facade of the old building having in part beenremoved to South Kensington Museum as a noblespecimen of moulded brickwork. Wren may havebeen the architect of a mansion which appears to have 64 ENFIELD. Edmonton and Enfield been occupied by Isaac Disraeli, till he removed toLondon, just in time to make the future PrimeMinister no native of Enfield. The house thenbecame a school kept by Charles Cowden Clarkesfather, with John Keats as its most illustrious pupil,who, after his apprenticeship at Edmonton, used towalk over to borrow books from his old school in the vicinity could boast two scholarsof very different renown. Captain Marryat, and Babbage,the calculating boy, of whom it is remembered that hewould get up in the small hours to study on the sly,whereas the future naval novelist was keen rather forplay, and distinguished himself by running away fromfrequent scrapes and floggings, being once captured in the horse-pond at Edmonton. Sir Ralph Aber-cromby also was an Enfield schoolboy, in days whenthe place made such a choice retreat from London asnow is Tunbridge Wells or Leith Hill, and it can lookback to older days when for wealth and dignity it heldu
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