op Andrewes' _Reply_ to the _Apology_ of
Bellarmine, chap. i. p. 7, ed. 4to. London, 1610, certain jesuits in
prison are reported to have confessed, _Rem transubstantiationis patres
ne attigisse quidem_; as authority for which is quoted _Discurs Modest_,
p. 13. From this work apparently the passage is copied by Jeremy Taylor,
_Real Presence_, sect. 12. Sec. 16; _Dissuasive_, part i. chap. 1. Sec. 5, and
part 2. book 2. sect. 3. 3: also by Cosin on _Transubstantiation_, chap.
6. Sec. 17. Can any of your readers favour me with a clue to the _Modest
Discourse_?

A.T.

_Ptolemy of Alexandria._--"QUERY" wishes to be informed what works of
Ptolemy of Alexandria are to be met with in an English translation.

_Vanbrugh's London Improvements._--In the _London Journal_ of March
16th, 1722-23, there is the following paragraph:--

"We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new
paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things,
proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels
in the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and
common sewers under ground."

Sir John Vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of noblemen's and
gentlemen's mansions. Can any of your readers supply me with a reference
to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the general improvement of the
metropolis?

B.M.

_Becket's Grace-Cup._--The inscription round the neck of this so-called
cup, of which a representation is given in No. 1. of Mr. Scott's
_Antiquarian Gleanings_, is thus printed by him--GOD FERARE--: to which
he adds, in explanation, "probably the name of the goldsmith." {143} At
the foot of an earlier print of this relic, the inscription is given
thus--FERARE GOD--and till the appearance of Mr. Scott's version, I had
considered the former word as an accidental error of the engraver,
instead of FEARE; which would present a moral motto, suiting the SOBRII
ESTOTE round the lid.--As Mr. Nichols, in his recent interesting work on
_Pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury_, noticing the misnomer of the
cup (p. 229, n.), indicates its date to be of "the early part of the
sixteenth century," perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could
state if any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, be known.

ALICUI.

_Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book._--I should be glad to know if any of
your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir Henry Herbert's
Office-Bo