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No account of this prisoner.

I can form no conjecture on the intention of the above inscription, unless the mutilated name at the bottom may have been for that of some Roman catholic prisoner.

Plate VI. Fig. 3. A G on each side of the arms of Gifford, i. e. the same arms given by Edmondson to the Giffords of Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Ireland, and Wotton-under Edge in Gloucestershire, "Argent, ten torteauxes, four, three, two, and one." Date 1586. By way of crest to the shield, a hand grasping three flowers.

Bishop Carleton, in his "Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercie," p. 106, tells us that "George Giffard, one of the queenes Gentleman Pencionaries, had sworne to kill the queene, and for that cause had wiped Guise of a great summe of money." Probably this was the prisoner that made the above inscriptions; and yet we are informed in Strype's Annals, Vol. III. p. 417, under the year 1586, of a "Gilbert Giffourd, a priest, who was concerned in a conspiracy against the queen," where it is added, that "upon the discovery of this