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." 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…