Monumental Inscriptions

Capital letters and Latin inscriptions are of the first twelve centuries.

Lombardic capitals and French inscriptions, of the thirteenth century.

German text, of the fourteenth century.

English and Roman print, subsequent to the fourteenth century.

Tablets against the wall came in with the Reformation.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.