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80 I should think are the initials of Robert Dudley, "Sonne," says Howe, p. 618, "to the late duke of Northumberland, who in 1554 was arrayned at the Guild Hall of London of high treason: he confessed the inditement, and had judgement given by the earl of Sussex to be drawne, hanged, bowelled, and quartered." The same authority informs us that he had been committed to the Tower by the name of Lord Robert Dudley, July 26, 1553.

Though the initial of the christian name is bent, as if for a P. Sed quære.

"Francis Page," on the authority of Dod, in his Church History, "having spent some time in the municipal laws in England, went abroad, and, being ordained priest, returned as a missionary into his own country. He resided for the most part with Mrs. Anne Line, a widow gentlewoman; and being at last seized, and condemned to die, for receiving orders, he was executed at Tyburn in the year 1601. He insisted, at his trial, that being a reputed alien, born at Antwerp, the law did not reach him. But not being able to produce his proofs immediately, his plea was overruled; though it was looked upon to be a great hardship that he had not time allowed him to make good his allegation. Mrs. Line was also prosecuted and suffered death for entertaining him. Alegambe gives Mr. Page a place in his catalogue, but," says Dod, "I do not find that he was ever admitted among the jesuits: neither, indeed, does Alegambe affirm it."

This prisoner was most probably some priest of the Roman Catholic communion.

"Jhon