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Account of Inscriptions discovered on the Walls of

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

1576. Thomas Clarke."

(In another place.)

"Hit is the poynt of a wyfe man to try and then truste
For hapy is he who fyndeth one that is just.

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."

"Thomas Miagh 1581.
"Thomas Miagh which lieth hire alone
That fayne wold from hens begon
By torture straunge my troyth was tried
Yet of my libertie denied.

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.

"Edward Cuffyn 1562."

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)

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