franCIs goLDsMIth.
Howell, in his German Diet, after narrating the death of Charles, son of Philip II. of Spain, says:—
If you desire to know the year, this chronogram will tell you:
fILIVs ante DIeM patrIos InqVIrIt In annos.
MDLVVIIIIIIII, or 1568.
The following commemorates the death of Queen Elizabeth:—
My Day Is Closed In Immortality. (1603.)
A German book was issued in 1706, containing fac-similes and descriptions of more than two hundred medals coined in honor of Martin Luther. An inscription on one of them expresses the date of his death, 1546, as follows:—
ECCe nVnc MorItVs IVstVs In paCe ChrIstI exItV tVto et beato.
The most extraordinary attempt of this kind that has yet been made, bears the following title:—