_Chronograms_ (Vol. viii., pp. 42. 280.).--The following additional
specimen of this once popular form of numerical puzzle is not, I think,
unworthy a corner in "N. & Q."
On the upper border of a sun-dial, affixed to the west end of Nantwich
Church, Cheshire, there appeared, previous to its removal about 1800, the
undermentioned inscription:
"Honor DoMIno pro paCe popVLo sVo parta."
Now, seeing that Nantwich was, during the civil dissensions which
culminated in the murder of Charles I., a rampant hot-bed of anarchy and
rebellion, we should hardly be prepared for such a complete repudiation of
those principles as is conveyed in the line before us, did we not know that
the same anxiety to get rid of the "Bare-bones" incubus universally
prevailed. The numerals, it will be seen, make up the number 1661, which
was the year of the coronation of King Charles II.; and, no doubt, also the
year in which the dial in question was erected.