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Rh Neither the State Papers, Rymer's Fædera, Strype, Dod, nor Howe, mention this Thomas Bawdewin. I suspect he has been imprisoned here for counterfeiting the queen's coin.

Two inscriptions, both undated; round one a mutilated sentence —"adoramus te—Benedict" Plate VIII.—on the other, a bleeding heart on a crucifix part of the figure of a skeleton with words not to be made out beneath the first is plainly "pars." Arms of Peverel, three wheat-sheaves—a pomegranate. Edmondson informs us that the arms of Peverell of Devonshire, are, "Az. three Garbs. ar. two and one." Plate VI. Fig. 4.

I find no account whatever of this prisoner.

My hart is yours tel dethe" A bleeding heart, oak flip, with acorns growing out of it. On one side his own initials, T. W. on the other P. A. probably those of his mistress. A figure of death, holding a dart in one hand, and an hour-glass in the other. From the circumstance of his styling himself "Goldsmith" I should suspect this person to have been imprisoned for counterfeiting the current coin of the kingdom. There is no date.

The curious information that has been transmitted concerning this prisoner must atone for the very scanty notices or silence of our annalists concerning the preceding ones.

Dod tells us (Vol. II. p. 164) that this John Story was "educated in the university of Oxford, chiefly in Henxey Hall, a most noted house for civilians. He was admitted bachelor of the civil law, anno 1531, and appointed professor of a new lecture, anno 1535, founded by king Henry VIII. Rh