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Rh before, but was stayed till then. This lady, being nothing at all abashed, neither with feare of her owne death, which then approached, neither with the fight of the dead carcase of her husband, when he was brought into the chapell, came foorth, the lieutenant leading her, with countenance nothing abashed, neither her eyes any thing moistened with teares. (although her gentlewomen Elizabeth Tilney and mistresse Helen wonderfully wept) with a book in her hand, wherein she prayed untill she came to the sayd scaffold, whereon when she was mounted, she was beheaded: whose deaths were the more hastened for fear of further troubles and stirre for her title, like as her father had attempted."

It is farther stated in the Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons before cited, Vol. IV. p. 129, that "on the wall of the room in which she (lady Jane Gray) was imprisoned in the Tower, she wrote with a pin these lines:

no vestiges of the above inscription were lately discovered.

With regard to Plate IV. Fig. 4, I should suppose that by "Doctor Cook, 1537," is meant the same person who is recorded in Howe's Chronicle, p. 581, under the name of "Laurence Cooke, prior of Dancaster," to have been with five others drawn to Tyburn, and hanged, and quartered. They had all been attainted by parliament for denial of the king's supremacy.

As to the inscription, "Adam Sedbar Abbas Jorevall 1537," Pl. IV. Fig. 3, we read in Howe's Chronicle, under that year, p. 574, that "in June, Adam Sodbury, abbot of Gervaux, was put to death;" and somewhat fuller, in Willis' History of Mitred Abbies, p. 275, cited