44 NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 3. 
Dominus fac totum with the king”—seems to 
point us to some ecclesiastical origin for the 
derivation of our familiar word “ factotum.” 
Does any one know the precise whereabouts 
of such a phrase in the Ancient Service 
books? CG. Bai 
INSCRIPTION ON ANCIENT ALMS-BASINS. 
Mr. Editor, —In the parish church in 
which I officiate are preserved four ancient 
and curious alms-basins, of latten; they ap- 
pear to be of Flemish workmanship, and, 
from inventories of the church goods, made at 
different times, we may gather that they were 
given for their present use during the seven- 
teenth century. They represent: —1. The 
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; 2. The Annun- 
ciation of the Blessed Virgin; 3. The Tempt- 
ation in Eden; and 4. The Spies bearing the 
grapes. Around each of these subjects is a 
legend in foreign characters, “DER. INFRID. 
Grnwart.” I have submitted this inscrip- 
tion to antiquaries and German scholars in 
vain; it still remains a puzzle. It has been 
suggested that it may have been only an ar- 
bitrary mark of the maker. Is this probable ? 
If not, will you, or one of your readers, give 
the interpretation to CLERICUS ? 
Noy. 8. 1849. 
[We have much pleasure in inserting the foregoing 
Query, and trust that many of our correspondents 
will follow the example of Clericus, by furnishing us 
with copies of the inscriptions on any ancient church 
plate in their possession, or which may come under 
their notice, A comparison of examples will often 
serve to remove such difficulties as the present, which 
perhaps may be read pDERIN FRID GEHWART, “ Therein 
Peace approved;” Gewdren being used in the sense of 
Bewiihren, authority for which may be found in Wacker- 
nagel. } 
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NOTES OF BOOK SALES—CATALOGUES, ETC. 
It is our purpose from time to time to call 
the attention of our book-buying friends to 
the approaching sales of any collections which 
may seem to us to deserve their attention : 
and to any catalogues which may reach us 
containing books of great rarity or curiosity. 
Had we entertained no such intention we 
should have shown our respect for the memory 
of that intelligent, obliging, and honourable 
member of the bookselling profession (to 
whom a literary man rarely addressed a 
Query, without receiving in reply a Norr 
of information worth preserving), the late 
Mr. Thomas Rodd, by announcing that the 
sale of the first portion of his extensive and 
valuable stock of books will commence on 
Monday next the 19th instant, and occupy 
the remainder of that week. 
The following Lots are among the speci- 
mens of the rarities contained in this portion 
of Mr. Rodd’s curious stock : — 
189 Acrs or Partiament, Orders, Declarations, Pro- 
clamations, &c. 1657 to 1660, the original 
Papers and Broadsides collected and bound in 
1 vol. calf. 1657-60 
*,* This very important volume contains the Acts, &c. 
during the period intervening between Sco- 
bell’s Collection and the recognized Statutes of 
Charles II. As the laws during this period 
have never been collected into a regular edition, 
a series of them is of the greatest rarity. 
194. ASsor, Fasurs, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH 
By Witiram Caxton, curious wood engravings 
Hlack letter, very rane, imperfect, old russia 
Emprynytep sy Ricuarp Pynson (No Date) 
*,* This edition is altogether unknown and unde- 
scribed. The present copy commences with 
signature C 1, and extends to sig. S (v) in sixes, 
on the reverse of which is the above colophon, 
with Pynson’s device underneath, J¢ wants 
sheets A and B, and E (iiii). 
380 Cellii (E.) Eques Auratus Anglo-Wirtembergi- 
cus: id est, actus admodum Solennis; quo 
Jacobus Rex Angliz, &c, Regii Garterio- 
rum supremus ac Frid. Ducem Wirtember- 
gicum, per Rob. Spencer Barnoem declaravit, 
portrait woodcut Tubing. 1605 
*,* This was Sir Wm, Dethick’s copy, Garter King at 
Arms, who accompanied Lord Spencer in his 
journey: in it he has written some very curious 
circumstances respecting the journey, and of the 
ill-treatment he experienced from Sir Rob. 
Spencer and Wm. Seager, ‘a poore paynter, 
sonne of a base fleminge and spawne of a Jew,” 
with an account of the family of Dethick, or De 
Dyk, of Derbyshire and Staffordshire. 
475 Curisrine or Pisa. Tue Fayr or ArMEs AND OF 
CHyYVALRYE 
Dlack letter, one leaf inlaid and three or four 
beautifully fac-similed, otherwise a fine und 
perfect copy, russia extra, gilt leaves, by C. 
Lewis WrEstMESTRE, PER CAXTON, MCCCCLXXXIX 
*,* This work consists of 139 leaves, exclusive of the 
table, occupying two leaves. The colophon of 
the Printer is one of great interest, filling the 
two last pages. It thus commences : —“ Thur 
“endeth this boke, whiche xpyne of pyse made 
“and drewe out of the boke named Vegecius de 
“re militari and out of tharbre of bataylles, 
“ wyth many other thynges sett in to the same 
“requisite to werre and batailles, which boke 
“ beyng in Frénshe was delyvered to me Willm 
“Caxton by the most erysten kinge and se- 
«doubted prynce, my naturel and souvrayn 
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