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Rh this my punishment and handlyng, who desyre no other thing but my definition."

Of the following miscellaneous inscriptions I can give no account.

This prisoner was most probably of the northern, ancient, and very respectable family of that name. By the date he had most likely been concerned in Aske's rebellion.

"John Marten"

No Date—some fragments of an inscription in old Italian.

A foreigner, probably, by the name, a Dutchman.

The subsequent memorials of sir Geoffrey Foole are more interesting.

Howe, in his Chronicle, p. 576, informs us, under the year 1538, that on "the 5th of November, Henry Courtney, marquisse of. Excester, and earle of Devonshire, and sir Henry Poole, knight, L. Montacute, and sir Edw. Nevil, brother to the L. of Burgaveny, were sent to the Tower, being accused. by sir Geffrey Rh