_Monumental Inscriptions_ (Vol. viii., p. 215. &c.).--I have never seen
the monumental inscription of Theodore Palæologus accurately copied in
any book. When in Cornwall lately, I took the trouble to copy it, and as
some of your readers may like to see the thing as it is, I send it line
for line, word for word, and letter for letter. It is found, as is well
known, in the little out-of-the-way church of St. Landulph, near
Saltash.
"Here lyeth the body of Theodoro Paleologus Of Pesaro in Italye,
descended from ye Imperyail Lyne of ye last Christian Emperors of
Greece Being the sonne of Camilio, ye so[=n]e of Prosper the sonne
of Theodoro the sonne of Iohn, ye sonne of Thomas, second brother to
Constantine Paleologus, the 8th of that name and last of yt lyne yt
raygned in Constantinople, untill subdewed by the Turkes, who
married with Mary Ye daughter of William Balls of Hadlye in
Souffolke Gent, & had issue 5 children, Theodoro, Iohn, Ferdinando,
Maria & Dorothy, and departed this life at Clyfton ye 21th of
January, 1636."