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84 Unhappie is that mane whose actes doth procuer The miseri of this house in prison to induer.

1576. Thomas Clarke."

T. C." Dod, in his Church History, (Vol II. p. 75) mentions a "Thomas Clarke (probably this prisoner) a priest of the Roman communion, but of what order he did not find," adding, that "He became a protestant and made his recantation sermon at St. Paul's Cross, July 1, 1593."

1581. Thomas Miagh."

I find no account of this prisoner, the sincerity of whose wishes to be set at liberty no one will be inclined to call in question.

For whatever crime this person had been made a prisoner, he occurs afterwards as sent into exile, as one of an enterprising spirit, and fit to be deputed as a Romish emissary to England. Strype, in his Annals, Vol. III. p. 318, mentions a letter from Robert Turner, a native of Devonshire, public professor of Divinity at Ingolstade in Germany, A. D. 1585, to cardinal Allen at Rome, recommending an English man, one Edward Coffin, ready at his service, to be admitted into the English college at Rome, (where Allen was chief) being