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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 206. 



•was founded on the authority of the Visitation- 

 Book of the county of Derby, a.d. 1634, in which 

 Anthony Fitzherbert is called " Chief Justice 



of ;" and, as the question of his rank as a 



judge was not one at the moment of communi- 

 cating my Note, I made no farther inquiry. I 

 fmd, however, upon reference to Vincent's Col- 

 lections for Dei'hyshire, that Anthony Fitzherbert 

 is styled, in a very good pedigree of his family, 

 " Unus justiciariorum de Coi Banco." Had I 

 turned to Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, the 

 error might have been avoided. 



Thos. W. King (York Herald). 



Palace at Enfield (Vol. viii., p. 271.). — Queen 

 Elizabeth, in the early part of her reign, frequently 

 kept her court at Enfield. Her palace was the 

 manor-house, near the church, of which little now 

 remains. In Lysons' time (1793) it had been in 

 a great measure rebuilt, and divided into tene- 

 ments. He adds, " the part which contains the 

 old room is in the occupation of Mrs. Perry." 



When I saw this room, about twenty years 

 ago, it Avas in its original state, with oak panels 

 and a richly ornamented ceiling. The chimney- 

 piece was supported by columns of the Ionic and 

 Corinthian order, and decorated with the cogni- 

 zances of the rose and portcullis, and the arms of 

 France and England quartered, with the garter 

 and the royal supporters. Underneath was this 

 motto, " Sola salus servire Deo, sunt caetera 

 fraudes." 



In the garden was a magnificent tree, a cedar 

 of Libanus, which was pointed out to me as 

 having been planted by Queen Elizabeth. But 

 upon this point tradition was at fault. In the 

 Gcntlemaii's Magazine for 1779, p. 138., may be 

 seen an account of this remarkable cedar, which 

 was planted by Dr. Kobert Uvedale, the botanist, 

 a tenant of the manor-house in 1670. 



The church at Enfield does not date farther 

 back than the middle of the fifteenth century. 

 The devices of a rose and ring, which occur over 

 the arches of the nave, seen also upon the tower 

 of Hadley Church, with the date 1444, " supposing 

 it to have been, as is very probable," says Lysons, 

 " a punning cognizance adopted by one of the 

 priors of Walden, to which monastery both 

 churches belonged, will fix the building of the 

 present structure at Enfield to the early part of 

 the fifteenth century." Edward F. Rimbault. 



• Sir John Vanhrugh (Vol. viii., pp. 65. 160. 232.). 

 — Are not your correspondents on the wrong 

 scent as regards the birthplace of Sir John Van- 

 brugh ? In the memoir prefixed to the collection 

 of his Plays^ 2 vols. 12mo., 1759, it is said: 



" Sir John Vanbrugh, an eminent dramatic writer, 

 son of Mr. Giles Vanbrugh of London, merchant, was 

 born in the parish of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1G66. 



The family of Vanbrugh were for many years mer- 

 chants of great credit and reputation at Antwerp, and 

 came Into England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 

 on account of the persecution for religion." 



Mr. Cunningham (^Handbook of London, p. 282.) 

 speaks of William Vanderbergh, the supposed 

 father of Sir John, as residing in Lawrence- 

 Poultney Lane in 1677. He refers to Strype's 

 map of Walbrook and Dowgate wards, and A 

 Collection of the Names of the Merchants living in 

 and about the City of London, 12mo. 1677. 



The writer of the notice of Sir John Vanbrugh 

 in Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 

 vol. i. p. 597., says : 



" Vanbrugh was the son of a successful sugar-baker, 

 who rose to be an esquire, and comptroller of the 

 treasury chamber, besides marrying the daughter of 

 Sir Dudley Carlton. It is doubtful whether the 

 dramatist was born In the French Bastlle, or the 

 parish of St. Stephen's, AValbrook. The time of his 

 birth was about the year 1666, when Louis XIV. de- 

 clared war against England. It is certain he was in 

 France at the age of nineteen, and remained there some 

 years." 



The family vault of the Vanbrughs is certainly 

 in St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook, where Sir 

 John was buried on the 30th of March, 1726. 



Edward F. Bimbault. 



Greeh Inscription on a Font (Vol. viii., p. 198.). 

 — This Query has already been answered and 

 illustrated in Vol. vii., pp. 178. 366. 417. ; but the 

 following passage may be of interest, as affording 

 instances of the same inscription in France, and 

 pointing out the probable source of its usage, viz. 

 from the ancient Greek metropolitan church at 

 Constantinople : 



« St. Memin est una abbaye celebre sous Tancien 

 nom de Micy, sur la riviere de Loire, proche d'Orleans. 

 II y a dans I'uglise de ce monastere un benetler de 

 forme ronde, avec cette inscription gfecque gravee sur 

 le bord du bassln, NI^ON ANOMHMA MHMONAN 

 O^IN. La meme chose est a Paris, au benetler de 

 St. Etlenne d'Egres, et aussi autrefois a celul de Sainte 

 Sophie a Constantinople." — Voijages liturgiques de 

 France,par le Sieur Molton, p. 219., Svo. 1718. 



It may be added (on Cole's authority, vol. xxxv. 

 f. 19 b.) that the same inscription is inscribed round 

 a large silver basin used formerly at the master's 

 table on festival days, in Trinity^ College Hall, 

 Cambridge : and I have also seen it on a silver- 

 "•ilt rose°vater basin, introduced at the banquets 

 given by the master of Magdalene College in the 

 same university. ^* 



« Fierce"" (Vol. viii., p. 280.). — In this part of 

 the country the words pert, i)ronounced "peart," 

 Viwdi pure, bear the same meaning, of well in health 

 and spirits. Francis John Scott. 



Tewkesbury. 



