THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"MULTOBUM MAN1BU8 GRANDE LBTATUR ONUS." — Ovtd. 



June, 1908. 



IP^ote on an |n$cvi|tton on a ^nttttss 

 of <§afchvj) Catljebval 



By A. R. Malden, F.S.A. 

 [Read at the Wilton Meeting, 1906.'\ 



The inscription is to be found upon a stone measuring about 

 3ft. X 1ft. and about 4ft. 6in. or oft. from the ground upon the 

 eastern face of the second buttress from the east outside the south 

 aisle of the choir of the Cathedral. I can in no way claim it as a 

 discovery, because the inscription appears to have been noticed by 

 Leland, who calls it a Latin inscription much defaced, but does 

 not give a rendering of it. He says it is in the vergers' burial 

 ground. It is true that in his time there was a verger's house 

 near the place, but I never elsewhere found any mention of a 

 vergers' burial ground, and Leland himself says that there was 

 a bishop buried near the same place. The inscription is also 

 mentioned in Gough's " Sepulchral Monuments " (vol. ii., part I. 



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