No. 49,— 1898.] dutch monumental remains. 265 



Translation. — Here lies Sigismundus Monitanier. Aged 

 12 years 11 months and — — . Died 22nd June (?) 5 years, 

 1613. 



Translation. — Anna Constantia van Reede. Aged 6 

 months. Died 9th November, 1696.* 



Plate 98, L.Z., Negombo. 



Translation. — Here lies buried Elizabeth Herris, wife of 

 the Lieutenant Lodewyck Stuart. Aged 22 years. Died 

 20th January, 1677. t 



Translation.— Here rests the God-blessed Maria van Geel, 

 wife of the Rev. Marc Mazius. Died 29th June, 1677. 

 Aged 50 years.f 



The Rev. Mazius was one of those who escaped from the 

 massacre of the Dutch at Formosa in the year 1661. 



The above are the Dutch epitaphs in the Lapidarium 

 Zeylanicum. Mr. J. P. Lewis, CCS. (to whom I am 

 indebted for sketches of Plates 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 

 105, 106, 112, 133, and 134), speaking of the mistakes in the 

 Lapidarium Zeylanicum, writesf :— 



In the upper inscription on Plate 97, for OUTGAERT read 

 RUTGiERT, and for DESECOMPy read DER-E-COMPe. The 

 letters are quite distinct and easily read. Ludovici only gives the 

 shield, but it is surmounted by a helmet and crest, the latter the same 

 figure of a bird as in the shield. 



The two centre inscriptions are here given for the second time ; for 

 they had already appeared on Plate 8. A comparison of the two versions 

 of each of these inscriptions will show how considerably they differ. 

 I presume they are from tombstones in Colombo. The remaining 

 inscription is more correctly— 



ANNA CONSTAN 

 T I A V A - Reede OUf 

 6 M © de N 9 NOV 1696. 



* See Plate 16, L.Z., for arms. 



t See 3 CJi.R. 343. 



