The last entry occurs in "Anno 1554, Mariae primo," but Fuller adds, "though what meant thereby, I know not." Can any satisfactory information be furnished which will explain the custom here alluded to? {319} 2. In the same work, page 278., a passage occurs, which not only explains the meaning of the term _factotum_, but furnishes matter for another query. The passage is this; speaking of "eminent persons buried" at Waltham Abbey, he says: "we spoil all, if we forget Robert Passellew, who was _dominus fac totum_ in the middle--and _fac nihil_ towards the end--of the reign of Henry III." Some parasites extolled him by allusion to his name, _pass-le-eau_, (that is "passing the pure water,") the wits of those days thus descanting upon him: "Est aqua lenis, et est aqua dulcis, et est aqua clara, Tu praecellis aquam, nam leni lenior es tu, Dulci dulcior es tu, clara clarior es tu; Mente quidem lenis, re dulcis, sanguine clarus." _Camden's MSS._ Cott. Lib. The learned Dr. Whitaker, in his _History of Whalley_, says, that "the word Paslew was of Norman origin (Pass-le-eau), and afforded a subject for some rhyming monkish verses, not devoid of ingenuity, which the curious reader may find in Weever's _Funeral Monuments_, p. 645;" and a question now arises whether the _Passellew_ mentioned by Fuller belongs to the same family as the "Paslews of Wiswall," alluded to by Dr. Whitaker, one of whom, "John, Abbot of Whalley" was executed for the part he took in the "Pilgrimage of Grace." when it is stated that the Paslews of Wiswall bore "Argent a fess between three mullets Sable pierced of the field, a crescent for difference," probably some of your readers will be able to give some particulars respecting "Robert Passelew," and also identify the families if possible. T.W. Burnley, Lancashire, Feb. 23, 1850. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES. _Conrad of Salisbury's Descritio utriusque Britanniae._--A good many years since I had a communication from the Baron de Penhouet, a Breton Antiquary, respecting a work which I have never yet been able to discover. I may ascertain, through the medium of your very useful publication, whether there exists a work under the title of a "Descriptio utriusque Britanniae," by Conrad of Salisbury, from a MS. of the time of Henry I. I should feel much obliged to any one who would favour me with this information. JAMES LOGAN. _Peruse or Pervise--Passage in Frith's Works._--Your correspondent T.J. rightly conjectured that the _peruse_ of a modern reprint of Frith was an error. I have been able since to consult two black-letter editions, and have found, as I suspected, "pervise" and "pervyse." If your same correspondent, or any other, can help me to correct, or to understand another erroneous clause in Russell's edit. of Frith, vol. iii. p. 227., I shall be still further obliged.