"Right wourshipfulle cosin, I recommend me vnto you. And where[1] it fortuned me in my retourne home frome Westchestre, to meit my lord Darby, my lord Strange, and other at Whalley abbey, by whome I had the sight of suche lettres as were directed vnto theme frome the kinges grace; apperceyuing by the same that Perkin Warbeke is londid in the west parties, in Cornevelle, wherfore I wolle pray you, and allso in the kinges name aduertise you, to be in aredynes[2] in your owin persone, with suche company as you make, to serue his highnes, vpon an our[3] warnyng, whan his grace shalle calle vpone you. For the which I doubte not but his highnes shalle geve you thankes accordinge. As our lord knoith, who preserue you! Wretin in the kinges castelle of Knaresburght, the xvij dey of Septembre. "your [frend] and cosyne, syr "Harry Wentworth. "Addressed To his wourshipfulle cosin syr William Caluerly, knight, in haste." [Footnote 1: whereas.] [Footnote 2: readiness.] [Footnote 3: hour's.] The Lord Strange mentioned in the above letter was the third son of the Earl of Derby, and died at Derby House, London, on the 5th Dec. 1497, less than three months after the letter was written. F. MADDEN. A HEBREW SERMON IN ENGLISH STONE (_Alias, A Puzzle of long standing solved_). Some of the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" may have chanced, as was the case with the writer, to have enjoyed a ramble through the park and village of Wentworth, in Yorkshire, one of Earl Fitzwilliam's estates. Should such be the case, the ramblers could not have failed to halt half an hour, probably an hour, before a neat house, now inhabited by one of his lordship's agents, and wonder and ponder over the intent and purport of a curious inscription, on a stone sun-dial, which is placed over the door of the house. Such I have learned to be the case with every new passer-by. Having spent some time in musing over the hitherto inexplicable puzzle, I think that I am enabled at last to offer a sort of solution of the same. I shall therefore at first give a simple description of the contents of the stone, and then my version of it. In the centre of the slab, a dial plate is inserted; on its left are carved three lines, running thus: "Bezaleel Benevent Sculptor Israelite. Isaiah xliv. 5. Maker. I am 58 years old. On its right, eight lines are carved, and run thus: "1740 years of ממשיר A stone of stumbling. See Isaiah viii. 14, 15. Ps. cxix. 165. Ezek. iii. 20 A stumbling-block. Beware of Him. Mal. i. 11."