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and a numerical sense. Thus, hundred pficiunt, " make up 

 the hundred." Hund-red is the rad or reckoning of a 

 hund = 100. Hunt is cognate with cent. 



10. CI appears to be the word often written CY, here, 

 hereupon, in this place. 



1 1 . The crossed W (followed by S) is frequently found 

 at Milton Abbey as an initial letter, and this makes it 

 unlikely that the two letters V and U should be crossed 

 also. Besides, if WS were VUS, for vous, it would be a 

 pronoun of the second person plural and the verbs are 

 both in the third person, and apparently in the third 

 person singular. So that WS are probably the initial 

 letters of the deceased's names. 



12. If these preliminaries be granted, then, on the 

 assumption that the drawing of the slab is accurate, the 

 sentences may be read as follows : 



KI PAR I CI PASSET 



Whoso by this place thus passeth 



PVR LEALME PR 



* * * * * 



ior the-soul doth pray 



RCI LISET LE 



for God's mercy there is permitted to him 



PARDVN ? CI 



an indulgence of so many days here 

 or, in familiar phrase, pardon a hundredfold in the life 

 that now is. 



W S (initials of the deceased). 



H. COLLEY MARCH. 



II. 



I. The suggestion of the late Mr. Moule that W S are not 

 the initials of the Abbot seems to be reasonable. The Abbot's 

 name most probably appeared on the other portion of the slab 

 (missing) in order that passers-by might know for whom they 

 were bidden to pray. This was not unusual. 



