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Gentleman's Magazine 1751 p.255
GVDNL. 'Tis an usual practice in inscriptions to drop the
vowel that should precede a mute; see Sir Andrew
Fountaine's Tables of the Anglo-Saxon Coins, and Dr
Hick's Thesaurus, Eadmund xvii. 25. AEthelstan
ii. AEthelred ii. 3. Eadward iii. 21.
inc or ing is a vulgar termination in our
English names; see the same author Cnut ix.
Aethelred viii. and you have an authority for the C
being unfinish'd in one transverse stroke at top,
Eadmund xviii. insomuch that this is no other than
the common name of Goding, or Gooding, so
frequent in the north.
R. There is a dot or point between the legs of this letter,
that seems to denote the abbreviation.
A. The stroke at the head of this letter shews the
abbreviation plainly.
[triangle]. This is a very arbitrary mark; how it should
stand for M, I cannot imagine, and yet it can be nothing
else in this case.
[square]. This form of an O you will find in Sir Andrew
Fountaine's alphabet, and others of a sharp lozenge
figure both in him and Bouterovius. It is plac'd in
your type at the top of the L very apositely, to express the
last letter of the word quinquagesimo, which in a
numeral would stand in that manner, thus L°.Yours,
&c. PAUL GEMSEGE.
June 8, 1751.
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