MICHAEL DE VVYMBIS ME FECIT
“Michael de Wymbis made me.”
ION ME YEYT
“John cast me.”
Other forms of inscription soon became common, especially the simple invocation to a saint—
“Sancte Petre (or ‘Sancta Katerina’) ora pro nobis.”
“Saint Peter,” or “Saint Katherine, pray for us.”
By one founder, whose theology was somewhat confused, the Holy Trinity itself was similarly invoked—
“Sancta Trinitas ora pro nobis.”
He should have said “miserere nobis,” “have mercy upon us,” as in our Litany.
What are known as “leonines,” or rhyming hexameter verses, are also very popular, such as—