Mr. Bloom states, in his _Mon. Arch. of Great Britain_, p. 210., that--

"There are, perhaps, no sepulchral inscriptions in that tongue

(English) _prior to the fifteenth century_; yet at almost the beginning

of it, some are to be met with, and they became more common as the

century drew to a close."

Is there any monumental inscription in English, earlier than the above

curious one, known to any of your correspondents?