r 4<?5 1 ; 
a|)ply my felf to you for a Mthcv occoimM the - mi* 
^/////, for which yon referred me to Dr Ms^j^r^z/e, to 
whom by your encouragement I fent a Letter of Slne^ 
rks • to which he did me the favour to fend a full an- 
fwer, the fubftance of which I have printed in the 
Chapter of my Book above-mentioned, with two of 
the three draughts he fent nie of it, and v/ith an ex- 
plication of that Infcription in the Saxon tongue* 
There you will alfo find my Conjefture about the Pi- 
^ure, which is ilirrounded with the Infcription that in 
the origmal ■ (hinds in Letters of Gold. The air^ the 
fli^pe of the face, and the two united Scepters in each 
hahd of it, made me then think that probably it might 
be thkt of OUY blejfed Lord, but having fince feen a 
Pifture of St Xi^^e in a, moft ancient Latin MS. of the 
GofpelSj^'kll writtdn in Capitals, with fuch like Scepters 
in each hand, 1 atri inclined to think that this was the 
commoii >vay in thofe times of drawing, or reprefent- 
ing Saints among the Saxons^ and that xht Pifture in 
K. !i/^ed!'s antiquity f for fo I now tall it) might be the 
Plfture of his P^^^^ Cuthhert, whom he, arid his 
Mother "&tia in one ^ night dreamed they fiw,' and heard 
fpeak the lame words, in which he told them he (hould 
conquer the Danes, and be a great King, and bid him 
be of good courage. This vifion of St Cnthbert hap- 
pened to him after he was beaten by the Dams, and 
had retired in great diftrcfs into ATHEL^Y, where 
this Antiquity was found, and he was fo affefted with 
it, that he afterwards ufed to tell it all his life long, 
and afcribe his. fuccefs over the Danes to the merits of 
St Cuthhertr^ and upon fecond thoughts this inclines me 
rather to believe that it" may be the Pidure of that 
Saint, who of all otherS;bf their Country fhined bright- 
eft in the Saxon Calendars, and I fhall give an account 
of this fecond conjecture in the Preface to my Book, 
y/ith a Sculpture of St Lukes Piaure, in that MSS. 
C c c 2 which 
