nd 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 _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1779, p. 138.,
may be seen an account of this remarkable cedar, which was planted by Dr.
Robert 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 Vanbrugh_ (Vol. viii., pp. 65. 160. 232.).--Are not your
correspondents on the wrong scent as regards the birthplace of Sir John
Vanbrugh? 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 1666. The family of Vanbrugh were for many years merchants
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 Bastile, or the parish of St. Stephen's,
Walbrook. The time of his birth was about the year 1666, when Lou