In this latter, are graued certaine letters, which I
caused to be taken out, and haue here inserted, for abler capacities,
then mine own, to interpret.
[image, approx d O n l
E R T : R O
3 a U I T
p R O a n
l m a
where 'a' is a Greek alpha character]
Why this should be termed, The other halfe stone, I cannot resolue
with my selfe, and you much lesse. Howbeit, I haltingly ayme,
it may proceede from one of these respects; either, because it is
the halfe of a monument, whose other part resteth elsewhere: or,
for that it meaneth, after the Dutch phrase and their owne measure,
a stone and halfe. For, in Dutch, Ander halb, (another halfe)
importeth, One and a halfe, as Sesqui alter doth in Latine.
It should seeme to be a bound stone: for some of the neighbours
obserued to mee, that the [130] same limiteth iust the halfe way,
betweene Excester and the lands ende, and is distant full fiftie
myles from either.
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