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. Rimbault.
Greek 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. Mémin est une abbaye célèbre sous l'ancien nom de Micy, sur la rivière de Loire, proche d'Orléans. Il y a dans l'église de ce monastère un benétier de forme ronde, avec cette inscription grecque gravée sur le bord du bassin, ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ. La même chose est à Paris, au benétier de St. Etienne d'Egrès, et aussi autrefois à celui de Sainte Sophie à Constantinople."—Voyages liturgiques de France, par le Sieur Moleon, p. 219., 8vo. 1718.
It may be added (on Cole's authority, vol. XXXV. f. 19b.) 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 sliver-gilt rose-water basin, introduced at the banquets given by the master of Magdalene College in the same university.
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"Fierce" (Vol. viii., p. 280.).—In this part of the country the words pert, pronounced "peart," and pure, bear the same meaning, of well in health and spirits.
Francis John Scott.
Tewkesbury.