WATCHING THE SEPULCHRE—DOMINUS FACTOTUM—ROBERT PASSELLEW

Allow me to offer a query or two respecting which I shall be glad of any information your numerous correspondents may be able to furnish. 1. In Fuller's *History of Waltham Abbey*, pp. 269. 274., Nichol's edition, 1840, we have the following entries from the churchwarden's accounts: "Anno 1542, the thirty-fourth of Henry viii. *Imprimis*. For watching the sepulchre, a groat." "*Item*, for watching the sepulchre, eight pence." The last entry occurs in "Anno 1554, Mariæ primo," but Fuller adds, "though what meant thereby, I know not." Can any satisfactory information be furnished which will expl…