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APPENDIX.
Ricardus Bruto[1], nee non Morellius Hugo,
Willelmus Traci, Reginaldus Filius Ursi,
Martyrio Thomam fieri secere beatum:
Anno milleno centeno septuageno.
"Richard Briton, and also Hugh Morrell, William Traci, Reginald Fitz Urse, caused Thomas to be blessed by martyrdom, in the year 1170." The Latin is not elegant: but the verse and sense prove this alone must be the proper reading.
- ↑ Bruto for Brito is no error. Sister was anciently written Suster. The Welch u has now sometimes the found of the English i.
Perhaps the words under the middle armed figure should have been "Martyrium Thomæ;" for Martyrum Thomam is an expression ungrammatical.T. C.
Read June 26, 1800.
As an Appendix to an account of certain inscriptions discovered lately on the walls of a room in the Tower of London, printed in this volume, p. 68, and particularly the very interesting Autographs found there of the amiable and unfortunate lady Jane Grey, the Secretary requests permission to lay before the Society a copy of an exceedingly rare (if not unique) printed tract, not noticed that he can find in Ames or Herbert, one part of which is entitled, "The Ende of the Ladye Jane upon the Scaffolde." It is without date, but contains internal evidence of having been printed immediately after that event in the first year of the reign of queen Mary.
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