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: INDVLGENCIA : HVIVS : SANCTI : LOCI : 

 CAPELLAE : EMENDATIONE : CONCESSA : 



The Indulgence granted for the repair 

 of the chapel of this holy place 

 : X : DIES : EST : 



is ten days. 



If it be objected that such extreme abbreviation as C : for 

 capella would not be understood by ordinary persons, it may be 

 replied that H' : is only less difficult to read ; and that, after all, 

 the main words for pilgrims, INDVLGENCIA and X DIES, are 

 plain enough. H. COLLEY MARCH. 



II. 



As will be seen from the illustration^ which is engraved from 

 a rubbing of the inscription, the lettering is much worn, and it 

 is difficult to say with certainty what two of the letters originally 

 were, but the reading which suggests itself to me is as follows: 

 INDULGENCIA (pro ecclesia, or capella), HUIUS 

 S(AN)C(T)I LOCI C ET X DIES E(ST). 



It has been suggested by a correspondent that C. E. stands for 

 " concessa est," but it should, I think, first be shown that this 

 contraction was in common use at the time, for the inscription 

 was intended for those who ran to read, and an abbreviation not 

 generally in use would puzzle, instead of inform, the pilgrim. It 

 should be noted also that, though there are the usual symbols of 



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abbreviations over the H' and SCI, there is none over the C or E, 

 and as these abbreviations were in common use at the time 

 everyone who could read would have understood them. 



The "Indulgencia huius sancti loci" was probably a collo- 

 quialism. It is a term which would apply in almost any case, 

 whether the payment for the indulgence was to go towards the 

 church, or its repair, or for the support of the services. 



With regard to the ET, the last letter is very indistinct, but 

 the curves might possibly be those of a Longobard T. In the 

 brass put up by some learned society in the church, evidently to 

 preserve the inscription, the word is given El, the latter stroke 

 apparently the shaft of a T. W. MILES BARNES. 



