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THE CASTLEGATE INSCEIPTION. 
As I shall have occasion, in the course of the following 
attempt to restore the consecration record of St Mary’s Church 
in the Castlegate, to refer to the record of the re-building of a 
church on the site of S. Gregory’s Minster at Kirkdale, I will 
give it at once with the translation. 
On either side of, and below, the dial, we read— 
4- OEM GAMALSYNA BOHTE ECS GREGORIYS MINSTER THONNE HIT 
Orm Gamalson bought St. Gregory’s minster when it 
WMS AL TOBROCAN 1 TOFALAN T HE HIT LET MACAN 
was all utterly broken & fallen down & he it let make 
NEWAN FROM GRYNDE XPE 1 SCS GREGORIYS IN EADWARD 
anew from ground to Christ & St. Gregory in Eadward’s 
DAGYM CNG 1 IN TOSTI DAGYM EORL -f + T HAWARTH ME 
days King & in Tosti’s days Earl & Hawarth me 
WROHTE T BRAND PRS. 
wrought & Brand Priests. 
Above, and around, the dial— 
+ THIS IS BMGES SOLMERCA JET ILCYM TIDE 
This is day’s sunmarker at each hour. 
In the Castlegate inscription two features strike us at once. 
1. It is the work of two hands: the first four lines, and 
the last two, belong to one ; the intermediate four to another. 
In the latter, besides greater regularity in the formation of 
the letters generally, we remark especially the horizontal 
crossing of the a, and the dipthong ae, as distinguished from 
the angular crossing, and the je of the latter. It is necessary 
to bear the characteristics of each hand in mind, whilst we 
attempt a restoration of the inscription; for what would be 
probable in the first would not he so in the second. 
2. There is a curious mixture of the two languages, English 
and Latin. In the Kirkdale inscription we observe sanctvs 
GREGOR ivs doing double duty, first as a genitive, then as a 
dative; in the latter, coupled with the Old English dative 
CRiSTE, as here sancta maria is a genitive coupled with cristes. 
The second writer gives us sancte twice for sancti, and 
MARTINI and cvTHBERHTi coirectly written. But the mixture 
