520 
a double inscription. Correcting, by means of each copy, 
the errors which occur in the other, the reading is — 
4-EOM^EETHCESCETTJEiEFT^PuHROETHBERHT^EBECUN^FTiEIlE 
OJVLEGEBID.EDDERSAULE, i. e.,— 
4-Eomser thoe soettae _j_Eomaer this set 
aeftser Hroethberhtae after Hroethberht 
becun seftser eoraae a beacon after his uncle 
gebidaed der saule pray for the soul. 
A fragment of a cross was found in 1774, between 
Wycliffe and Greta-bridge, inscribed in Roman uncials : — 
BAEDA 
T— 
AEFTE 
RBERC 
HTVINI 
BECUN 
AEFTERE 
Bseda (the set) t (a?) Baeda this set 
sefter Berchtuini after Berchtuini 
becun aefter f(adorse a beacon after his father 
gibiddad der saule) pray for the soul. 
These three examples are apparently all later than the 
Bewcastle monument, but not much later than the beginning 
of the eighth century. 
At Hackness, near Scarborough, there are three frag- 
ments of crosses, on which are Latin inscriptions to the 
memory of abbesses who presided during the first half 
of the eighth century over the monastery founded there 
by St. Hilda, A. D. 679 ; and in the Museum at 
Manchester, a complete cross which formerly stood in 
the churchyard at Lancaster, on which is the following 
simple inscription in Runes : — GIBIDiETH FORiE 
CYNIBALTH CUDBEREHT, « Pray for Cynibalthand 
Cuthberht." 
We have, thus, in the names of historical interest which 
some of these monuments supply, in their inscriptions, in the 
