. Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861. w * West Side. M1HJT1 N m II hit ft h 8>i» lfi» L Ml n South Side. Hot* Side. fliifrtlWRM MM nil IT If [t>5 must (Text continued on p. 38.) 38 Some Accounts of the Bewcastle Cross and he to Mr. Camden. It had an inscription on thetransverse limb, which Mr. Camden gives from an im-pression he had taken (Fig. 2), and the reading isclearly ricjes drihtn^:. Another copy supplies an sat the end of the second word. Lord William Howardhad previously sent to Olaus Wormius a copy of aninscription on this monument, which the l
. Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861. w * West Side. M1HJT1 N m II hit ft h 8>i» lfi» L Ml n South Side. Hot* Side. fliifrtlWRM MM nil IT If [t>5 must (Text continued on p. 38.) 38 Some Accounts of the Bewcastle Cross and he to Mr. Camden. It had an inscription on thetransverse limb, which Mr. Camden gives from an im-pression he had taken (Fig. 2), and the reading isclearly ricjes drihtn^:. Another copy supplies an sat the end of the second word. Lord William Howardhad previously sent to Olaus Wormius a copy of aninscription on this monument, which the latter publish-ed in his Monumenta In this copy the wordrices is plain, very much blundered, andafter these, quite plain, the word stioeth,2 of whichtraces still remain on the top of the western face ofthe These, taken in connection with theformer, give us a meaning which undoubtedly alludesto the cross, ricjes stkxeth. The Staff of theMighty Lord. Beneath, in an oblong compartment,is the effigy of St. John the Baptist, pointing withhis righ
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