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2. It is well to take some formula as a basis, like this, 

 which seems to be rhymed, of the i4th century 



PRIE PVR LALME DE LVY 



KY PVR LALME DE LVY PRIERE 



CENT JOURS DE PARDOVN AVERE 



" Pray for his soul. Whoso doth for his soul 

 pray shall have an indulgence of a hundred 

 days." 



3. There is no fixed rule as to where the inscription 

 on a slab begins and ends. In the Milton Abbey slab 

 the name of the deceased, with the date of his death, 

 and so forth, may have been written across the top of 

 the stone. Then would come the petition and promise 

 to the visitant, and this would seem to begin with the 

 word KI under the figure's right foot. 



4. Taking this order, we come to the word CI, which 

 represents SI, Latin, sic, the modern ainsi. 



5. PASSET. The final consonant T is an undoubted 

 sign of the third person, whether singular or plural. As 

 the final consonants were sounded, posset could not be 

 confounded with passes. 



6. LEALME is written as one word. 



7. LISET. This represents the Latin licet, and 

 appears in Norman as loisible, lawful ; loisies, permitted ; 

 -leise, it shall be lawful ; and in old French as licette, licite, 

 and loist, qui est permis. 



8. LE : PARDVN. These two words may be 

 distinguished from LEALME as not the article and a 

 noun, but as disconnected. LE is " him," the third 

 personal pronoun, singular. 



9. H in mediaeval times meant 200. (Cappelli's 

 " Lexicon abbrev. quae in Lapidibus &c Medii-aevi 

 occurrant.") Or, as Du Cange has it, H. littera numeralis 

 quae 200 denotat. " H. quoqve ducentos per se designat 

 habendos." But in Domesday Book, the work of 

 Normans, H. stands for a hundred, both in a territorial 



