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and this, I think, is the better reading, and the dots after jese 
complete the first clause. 
Efrard, Ehrard, is the only name I can think of, and I 
have no doubt in supplying it here. 
We can now read on without difiiculty to the end of the 
seventh line. The only question arising is, how the second 
writer would have expressed the name of S. Cuthbert, 
CVTHBERTI, cvDBERHTi, or as I have supplied it, with the rune 
thorn. The only dates possible to fill up the lacuna at the end 
of the seventh and beginning of the eighth lines are dccxvi, 
DCCLVi, Dcccvi, or MLXxvi. I prefer the second, for reasons 
to he stated presently. Two dots after i complete the second 
clause, which will stand— on naman drihtnes h^lendes 
CRISTES AND SANCTA MARIA AND SANCTE MARTINI AND SANCTE 
CVTHBERHTI AND OMNIVM SANCTORVM CONSECRATA EST ANNO 
DCCLVI : In the name of Lord Jesus Christ, and S. Mary, 
and S. Martin, and S. Cuthbert, and All Saints, she was 
consecrated in year 756.” 
As in the Kirkdale inscription, so here, the record of the 
dedication is followed by the subscription of the writer. 
siNViT is a personal name, of the same class as Ascuit (spelled 
also Ascoit, HascuitK), and Stepoit in the Domesday record, 
and Tasuit on a sword found in Nydam moss, Denmark. The 
preposition aet is followed by the commencement of the letter 
V. After the lacuna comes what I take to be part of a round 
M ; (compare round and square e in the first line, square and 
round c in the fourth) ; vrbis pomaerio exactly fills the space; 
and, however singular it may seem, I feel satisfied that it is the 
true restoration. Aet urhis pomaerio is the local designation of 
Sinuit, (the first writer), spoken of objectively in the eighth 
line, but in the ninth he takes up his graver again, the 
who,” ME me,” must have been followed by wrat wrote.” 
In the tenth line the letters are much smaller and te are 
united, the space remaining being too confined for all that 
the writer had to say. We have— ter, the conclusion of the 
word MINSTER, then the preposition ^t, and then sin —surely 
the commencement of Sinuit’s name again. 
When this inscription was first communicated to me, the 
