gram ("D. V.")
in scarlet and blue, perhaps executed by that same Dorothea Vincey who
wrote, or rather painted, the doggrel couplet. To the left of this,
inscribed in faint blue, were the initials A. V., and after them a date,
1800.

Then came what was perhaps as curious an entry as anything upon this
extraordinary relic of the past. It is executed in black letter, written
over the crosses or Crusaders' swords, and dated fourteen hundred and
forty-five. As the best plan will be to allow it to speak for itself, I
here give the black-letter fac-simile, together with the original Latin
without the contractions, from which it will be seen that the writer
was a fair mediaeval Latinist. Also we discovered what is still more
curious, an English version of the black-letter Latin. This, also
written in black letter, we found inscribed on a second parchment that
was in the coffer, apparently somewhat older in date than that on which
was inscribed the mediaeval Latin translation of the uncial Greek of
which I shall speak presently. This I also give in full.

_Fac-simile of Black-Letter Inscription on the Sherd of Amenartas._

"I{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}ta reliq{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}ia e{~LATIN
SMALL LETTER LONG S~}t valde mi{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG
S~}ticu{~COMBINING OVERLINE~} et myrificu{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}
op{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}s q{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}d maiores mei ex
Armorica {~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}
Brittania mi{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}ore {~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG
S~}ecu{~COMBINING OVERLINE~} co{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}veheba{~COMBINING
OVERLINE~}t et q{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}dm {~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG
S~}c{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}s cleric{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}s {~LATIN SMALL
LETTER LONG S~}e{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}per p{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}ri meo
in manu ferebat q{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}d pe{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}itus
illvd de{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}trueret, affirma{~COMBINING
OVERLINE~}s q{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}d e{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG
S~}{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}et ab ip{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}o
{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}athana co{~COMBINING
OVERLINE~}flatu{~COMBINING OVERLINE~} pre{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG
S~}tigio{~LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S~}a et dyabolica arte q{~COMBINING
OVERLINE~}re p{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}ter mevs co{~COMBINING
OVERLINE~}fregit illvd i{~COMBINING OVERLINE~} dvas p{~COMBINING
OVERLINE~}tes q{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}s q{~COMBINING OVERLINE~}dm ego
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