Addressed
To his wourshipfulle cosin syr William
Caluerly, knight, in haste."
[1] whereas.
[2] readiness.
[3] hour's.
The Lord Strange mentioned in the above letter was the third son of the Earl of Derby, and died at Derby House, London, on the 5th Dec. 1497, less than three months after the letter was written.
A HEBREW SERMON IN ENGLISH STONE
(Alias, A Puzzle of long standing solved).
Some of the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" may have chanced, as was the case with the writer, to have enjoyed a ramble through the park and village of Wentworth, in Yorkshire, one of Earl Fitzwilliam's estates. Should such be the case, the ramblers could not have failed to halt half an hour, probably an hour, before a neat house, now inhabited by one of his lordship's agents, and wonder and ponder over the intent and purport of a curious inscription, on a stone sun-dial, which is placed over the door of the house. Such I have learned to be the case with every new passer-by. Having spent some time in musing over the hitherto inexplicable puzzle, I think that I am enabled at last to offer a sort of solution of the same. I shall therefore at first give a simple description of the contents of the stone, and then my version of it.