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| The text of this inscription is an entirely standardised formula. If you remember the essential structure, you can astonish your friends and relations by reading and translating funerary inscriptions from churches all over Europe. |
| Inscription on a 15th century brass funerary memorial in Harpham, Yorkshire. |
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Index of Exercises |
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Index of Scripts |
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