_Lady Petre's Monument._--In the church at Ingatestone, in Essex, there
is a beautiful monument to Mary Lady Petre, of the date 1684, upon which
there is the following curious inscription:--
"D. O. M.
Certa spe Immortalitatis
Parte sui mortali hoc tegitur marmore
Maria
Vidua Domini Roberti Petre Baronis
de Writtle Guilielmi Joannis et Thomæ
Una trium Baronum Mater
Quæ 13o Jannuarii Añ D[=m]i 1684-5 annum
Ætatis agens 82 in terris devixit, ut
Æternum in coelo viveret
Quo illam singularis in Deum pietas
Suavis in omnes benevolentia
Profusa in egenos liberalitas
Inconcussa in adversis patientia
Ceu igneus Eliæ currus totidem rotis haud dubie evixerunt--
Sicut Sol oriens Mundo in Altissimis Dei
Sic Mulieris bonæ Species in ornamentum domus suæ.
Ecclus. 26.
AEIOU."
I should be glad if any of your learned readers could elucidate the
meaning of the five vowels at the foot of the inscription.