18 preserved in the vestry of the church of that place. It presents a cross, patée, with birds and quadrupeds in the angles, and bears a name inscribed in Saxon characters, DONFRID. The whole is in relief.

In the same churchyard occurs another stone resembling those of Hartlepool, pointed out to Mr. Haigh's attention by the clerk, in 1846. It is figured in No. 17. 1 Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. vol. vii. p. 75.

The letters are on each side of the cross, and give the name EATBEREHT. This is followed by ET, and the traces of the ensuing letters are too faint to be deciphered, or even conjectured. The spelling of this name, it is singular to observe, is the same as that on the Saxon coinage known by the name of Sceattas.

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No. 15.

Epitaphs in England are scarcely to be found prior to the eleventh century, and these are in the Latin language. A few specimens may be culled from the pages of Bede, Ordericus Vitalis, and other early writers. They are chiefly royal, or of celebrated Abbots and Prelates, and will be found in the selections under their respective divisions. From a MS. of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Mr. Arthur Agard' has quoted, perhaps, the most ancient epitaph belonging to England. It is that of King Kenelme, son of Kenelphus, who was said to have been murdered at the instigation of his sister Quendreda, by some called Heskebert, and hid in a wood in the county of Stafford :

In clene sub spina jacet in convalle bovina,
Vertice privatus Kenelmus fraude necatus.

1 Hearne's Discourses, vol. i. p. 248.

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This epitaph is also quoted by Sir Jas. Ley,' from Mathew of Westminster, thus :

In clene kau bathe Kenelin Kynebearne,
Lith under thorne heaved byreaved.

Hearne's Discourses, p. 121.

2 Ib. p. 298, 230.

Leonine verses prevailed in monumental inscriptions of the twelfth century. That of Gundrada,' the daughter of the Conqueror, at Lewes, is an apt illustration of this kind.

1 In 1845 I paid a visit to Lewes to examine the tomb and remains of Gundrada, the fifth daughter of William the Conqueror and the wife of William Earl of Warenne. The leaden coffins of the earl and his wife, who were the founders of the Lewes Priory, had been discovered in making a cutting through the spot once so famous for its Cluniac Monastery founded soon after the Conquest, for the Hastings and Brighton Railway. There

A full description of the discovery will be seen in the Journal of the British Archæological Association, vol. i. pp. 346-357, and vol. ii. pp. 104-108.