this probable? If not, will you, or one of your readers, give the
interpretation to

CLERICUS?

Nov. 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
DERIN FRID GEHWART, "Therein Peace approved;" _Gewaeren_ being used
in the sense of _Bewaehren_, authority for which may be found in
Wackernagel.]

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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 and 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 NOTE 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 specimens of the rarities contained
in this portion of Mr. Rodd's curious stock:--

189 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, Orders, Declarations,
Proclamations, &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 Scobell'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 AESOP, FABLES, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
WILLIAM CAXTON, _curious wood engravings_
BLACK LETTER, VERY RARE, _imperfect, old russia_
EMPRYNTED BY RICHARD PYNSON (NO DATE)

*** This edition is altogether unknown and undescribed.
The pres