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72 cited in Burton's Monasticon Eboracense, p. 373, that "Adam Sedburgh, the eighteenth and last abbot of Joreval, Jervaux or Gervis abbey in Yorkshire, was hanged in June, A. D. 1537, for opposing the king (Henry the VIIIth's) measures."

Plate IV. Fig. 5, exhibits a true copy of the autograph of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and son of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded, A. D. 1572. The sentence to which he has subcribed his name, "Quanto plus afflictionis pro Christo in hoc fæculo, tanto plus gloriæ cum Christo in futuro," is remarkably adapted to the character that has been left of him, according with the austerities which, Camden tells us, he used to practise, and the tenor of his behaviour, which other accounts have transmitted to us, as not unbecoming the primitive ages of the christian church.

We are informed by Dodd, in his Church History, that he was a zealous professor of the catholic faith, whereof he gave many remarkable proofs during his sufferings for the cause.

This inscription appears, by the date June 22, 1587, to have been made about two years after his commitment to the Tower.

The sentences underneath seem probably to have been added after his death by subsequent Roman catholic prisoners, &c. by way of eulogium on his memory.

In the last there has been an omission of the latter part, "the memory of the wicked shall rot," perhaps through fear of the party then uppermost, who are pretty strongly glanced at by the introduction of the first word "At."

In 1585 this prudent, as well as pious nobleman, foreseeing a storm gathering and threatening his party, on account of some attempts to set the queen of Scots at liberty, formed a resolution of quitting the kingdom; but as he was taking shipping, by the chery