Inscribed Alms-dish

There is an alms-dish (?) in the possession of a clergyman near Rotherham, in this county, with the following inscription:— "VREEST . GODT . ONDERHOVEDT . SYN . GEBOEDT . ANNO . 1634." [Fear God (and?) keep his commandments.] Having so lately been so justly reproved by your correspondent, Mr. Janus Dousa, for judging of Vondel's *Lucifer* by an apparently unjust review rather than by perusal,—and his beautiful chorus having so fully "established his case,"—I am rather shy of making any remarks upon this inscription: otherwise I would venture (errors excepted) to observe that there *may* be a m…