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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2 S.No 1, JAN, 5. 56. 
something new to tell, and about whom I am still 
desirous to know more. 
Sir John was buried in that masterpiece of Pro- 
testant church architecture, St. Stephen's, Wal- 
brook, in London, as appears by the parish register : 
“1726. March 31. Was buried St John Vanbrough in ye 
North Isle.” 
Why was he buried in Walbrook ? The inference 
is that his family was in some way connected with 
the parish ; and this inference is confirmed by the 
parish register, for the following extracts from 
which I am indebted to Mr. Crosby : 
“1628. Sept. 25. Was bapt¢ William y* sonn of Gillis 
Van Brugh and Mary his Wyff. 
1631, Aprill 27. Gyles, the sonn of Gyles Vanbrugh, 
Marchaunt, and Margarett’ his Wyfe, was 
baptysed. 
1656. Nov. 15. Was borne a still borne child of Mr. 
William Vanbruggs. 
1657. Jan. 1. William, the sonn of Mr. William Van 
Brugg, Marchant, and Mary his wife, was bap- 
tised. 
1659. July 6. Was born Dudley, the sonne of Mr. 
William Vanbrugge, Marchant, and Mary his 
wife, and was baptised the 13!» July.” 
These, I am informed, are the whole of the 
entries in the recister of St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, 
relating to the Vanbrugh family. 
These extracts are important. Of Giles Van- 
brugh, the son of a merchant in Walbrook, we are 
told that he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir | 
Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court in Surrey; 
hence doubtless the Christian name of Dudley 
mentioned in the above extracts. 
Mr. T. Huauss, of Chester, tells us (“N. & 
Q.,” 1% S. viii. 232.) that Giles Vanbrugh died 
at Chester, and was buried in Trinity Church, in 
that city, July 19, 1689. 
Was this the father of the dramatist and archi- 
tect? Isuspect he was. Has his will been looked 
into ? 
I have examined Sir John Vanbrugh’s will in 
Doctors’ Commons. In his will he mentions two 
brothers, Charles and Philip (Captain Philip Van- 
bruch is a subscriber, with Sir John, to Tickell’s 
Addison, 4 vols. 4to., 1721), and three sisters, | 
Mary, Robina, and Victoria. ‘Two of these names 
are unusual, They should serve as a clue to the 
discovery of the father of the dramatist. Will 
Mr. ‘I’. Hueues, of Chester, kindly inform me if | 
Robina and Victoria are among the names of the 
daughters of Giles Vanbrugh, baptized in Trinity 
Church, Chester ? 
Let me add, that the extract from the Life and 
Death of Matthew Henry (1716), printed in “N. 
& Q.” (1* S. viii. 480.), confirms the supposition 
that the father of the dramatist was connected 
with the city of Chester. 
Sir John wrote his name in three different ways : 
Vanbrook, Vanbrug, and Vanbrugh. I have seen 
instances of all three. 
There were yet, other ways of spelling the name. 
Ihave seen it as Vanbergh, Vanbright, Van Be- 
ringbrooke, and Van Berenbrocke. 
Philip Van Berenbrocke was made one of His 
Majesty’s Falconers by warrant under the signet, 
dated April 22, 14 Charles II., and was paid as 
such by the Treasurer of His Majesty’s Chamber. 
Giles Vanbrugh (we are told by the biographers 
of the dramatist) was Comptroller of the Trea- 
sury Chamber. But this I doubt. Was there 
such an officer ? 
I will ask leave to add another note about the 
Vanbrugh family, hitherto unnoticed : 
Register of Requests, 1660—1670, Add. MS., Brit. Mus., 
5759. 
“5 May, 1663. 
“ John and James Vanbergh. 
* That yt Petts are both twinnes, and borne in London, 
and for some yeares past have employed a stock left them 
by their grandfather in a course of merchandizing. Yet 
some, out of spight, go about to hinder their trading, in 
regard their father was an alien, though their mother an 
English woman, and themselves have not attained ye full 
age of xxj yeares. Prayes y* Matyes dispensacon wt! their 
innocent disability, and that they be permitted to trade, 
&c. His Maty having beene moved in this Peticon, his 
pleasure is, that Mr. Attory, or Mr. Sol. Gen!!, doe pre- 
pare a Bill for his Matys royal signature, cont a grant 
and liberty to ye Pet" to trafliq, as by them is humbly 
desired.” : 
Prerer Cunninguam. 
Kensington. 
ADDITIONS TO POPE. 
In a certain periodical work which made its 
first appearance in the early part of the reign of 
George the third, and bore a title which somewhat 
reminds one of royalty, there are three pieces 
ascribed to Mr. Pope — elsewhere yclept Alex- 
ander Pope, esquire, of Twickenham. 
Two of the pieces are in verse, and the other is 
in epistolary prose. As the former are not in the 
editions of Warburton and Warton, nor in the sup- 
plementary volume of 1807, nor in the Aldine edi- 
tion of 1851, they may have escaped notice, and I 
therefore give them the benefit of a re-impression: 
“ Lines written by Mr. Porn, in an arbour at a gentleman's 
country seat. 
What are these noon-tide bowers, and solemn shades? | 
Those gliding streams, and evening colonnades ? 
But soft recesses for th’ uneasy mind, 
To sigh unheard in, to the passing wind. 
So the struck deer, in some sequester’d part, 
Lies down to die, the arrow near his heart ; 
There hid in shades, and pining day by day, 
Inly he bleeds, and melts his soul away.” 
“ Dialogue on a birth-day in October, by Mr. Porx. 
“ MAMMY. 
*Pretty little baby stay — 
Why come out on this cold day? 
