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SEPVLCRO REOVIESCIT CORPORE HERI- 
BERICHT PBR, marked tlie tomb of a simple priest, 
(who may, indeed, have been one of the abbots of Wearmouth) 
— it is scarcely probable that so small a stone would be set 
up in memory of an illustrious bishop. 
The inscription on the cross from Lancaster, now in the 
museum at Manchester, is — 
GIBID^THFO Pray for Cynibalth. 
R^CYNIBAL (son of) Cuthbereht. 
THCUTHBEREHT(ING; 
The late Mr. Kemble read the last word CufhherM; I Ciith- 
hereht. A doubt having been raised as to the fifth and eighth 
characters, I applied to my friend, Thomas Glover, Esq., for 
a fresh cast, and called his particular attention to these 
characters, as he had the monument itself to refer to. With 
regard to the former, he saj^s, " this letter appears to me 
more like E than CE, but the top is very indistinct." It 
must, therefore, stand as Mr. Kemble and I have read it, 
and it is certainly the character most naturally to be ex- 
pected in this position in the name of Cuthbereht ; although, 
as the rune oethel represents simple e in the inscrij)tion 
which will be referred to presently, we could not be much 
surprised at its occurrence here. With regard to the last, 
Mr. Glover tells me there is a large deep strip off the edge of 
the stone, at the end of the third line. Next to this is cer- 
tainly H, and I think the branches of a T are attached to 
the top of its second stroke, so that it is HT. I supply 
conjecturally ING, in the space which has been chipped off. 
This seems better than the supposition that prayers are 
requested for two persons, and no copulative between their 
names. 
There is an inscription, nearly effaced, on the beautifiJ 
