434 HABUM. 



the word IHCOYC, or IESOUS, (JesusJ the 

 letter C being frequently used instead of the 

 Greek capital S. If however we suppose the last 

 of the three letters to represent an S, and not C ; 

 then we have the Latin initials I. H. S., Jesuf 

 Hominum Salvator, or Jesus the Saviour of men. 

 With regard to the other characters, some may 

 suppose them to be armorial bearings ; but should 

 they be considered as hieroglyphicks, the wheel 

 and hatchet on the left may be intended to repre- 

 sent the circumstance of the death of Christ; the 

 former torment, the latter death : and of those on 

 the right, the crossf within the semicircle may de-r 

 note the kind of death ; and the semicircle the 

 eclipse of the sun at the crucifixion of the Saviour ; 

 for, as the Evangelist observes, " There was dark-, 

 ness over all the earth until the ninth hour ; aad 

 the sun was darkened." Luke, xxiii, 44. 



Harum was once the residence and property 

 of Sir William de Harum, Knight, whose ancestor* 



scription ought in that case to hare been an E, and 

 not an H. In reply to that I would suggest, that the 

 sculptor whose performance is at best but a rude imper- 

 fect description was probably ignorant of the greek 

 language ; but having seen th letters I H C. on some 

 religious building, had substituted the three old English 

 letters 1 H C supposing them to be equivalent to tfeosp 

 he had seen. 



+ It is well known that in ancient times, the cross wa 

 SL very significant emblem, and \vas used to represent thfr 

 death of Christ. Thus when St Agustine came into 

 England, and preached the gospel to Ethelbert ki,ng of 

 Kent, he held in his hand a flag on which was represen- 

 ted the Saviour on the cross. 



Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, p. 144. 



