The Editors having heard Complaints of the small Type of the former Volumes, have begun the Third with one larger, for which they trust no Apology is necessary.

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We feel exceedingly obliged to our new Correspondent, S. D. (whom we suspect to be a well-known veteran in literature of this kind,) for the following ingenious and candid answer to the explanation of ancient inscriptions in our first volume, by J.W.R. (viz. John Watson Reed, F.S.A.) a lamented character whom we in particular, just after being honored by his correspondence, as well as antiquarians in general, regret the early and sudden loss of, at a time that he was not only enjoying a rising fame for his former labours, but was meditating future publications of consequence to the public.

Art. I. Explanation of the inscription on Bishop Lowe's monument, at Rochester, &c.