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Gentleman's Magazine 1780 p.132
monosysllable, as Grip, Girt, &c. If we go another way to work, and suppose the first letter to be an E, then, considering that not only the next parish church of Appleby is styled in record, Ecclesia Sti Laurentii de Appleby; and that the parish church of Morland, in which parish our chapel stands, is dedicated to the same saint; Burn I, 443 (though our chapel is to All Saints; see Ecton's Valor) we might be tempted to read Ecclesia DE S LaVRRENDE, the last letter but one being a mistake for C or T; or else should be separated, and form DE: but neither doth this satisfy; for though I have turned over Mr. Burn's two volumes very carefully on this occasion; in which there are some thousands of persons and place names mentioned, yet I can find none that one can suppose to be here meant. Nor doth the Baronetage article, Lorraine of Northumberland, afford any variety of assistance, Mr. Burn mentions, vol. I. p.51. Estate of Loring, and Sir Nigel Loring, vol. I. p.153, but he has no Weredun, or Verdon; but Warton, Wartun, Wherton, Quherton, pp.1, 11, 12, 36, 39, 41, 62, 234, 264, 558. There is said to be a Wardon or Wardrew iin Northumberland. Heylin's Help to History, p.436, No.114, barely mentions a Baron Verdon, who is probably no more ours than his Baron Leidurne; p.445, No.275, has any thing to do with the middle of our 5th line. Mr. Burn has a Laborne, v.i. p.143, 144, and he likewise informs us, Cumb. I, p.420, that Axham was anciently wrote in the most authentic instruments ASCYM or ASCOM. But our H is so remarkably large and plain, that it cannot be mistaken for a K. To go on, I cannot desire anybody to read AnnO A A Reparata S a lute; as I see nodate, except CV be one, and M omitted. The middle word of line 4th, if other things conspired kindly, might tempt one to read MVRum, to commemorate the building of the very wall, as hanc fenestram fecit, &c. Burn I, p.75. The fifth line, if an Antiquary could be other than a sad creature, he would think for Lilliburlaro; and that the usual ORATe prO a Ni M, was intended to follow. But when in so many suppositions not a single one seems plausible, it is time to give up, and express one's wishes, that others may only not be misled by any thing here said, as perhaps they would have done better, if left entirely to themselves, instead of being put on a wrong scent; and I assure them, when they make all clear, as they will do, who settle the reading rightly and truly, that I shall be pleased to see how easily and luminously they proceed on, where I could not see a step before me, nor even where I was. |
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