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Plate V. " /. H. S. A pajfage perillus maketJie a port pleafant. (In-another place) A 1568. ~Deofervre Arthur Poole Pemtentiam Mre JE S fue 37. Fatoque oledire. A. M.P. in a cypher. Regnare eft. A. Pooh 1554. J.H. S. About the year 1563 the commotions in France, during the mi- nority of Charles the IX th, between the princes of the popifli and the reformed religion, foon fprr.ad themfelves by a kind of conta- gion to this iiland ; and Arthur Poole, and his brother, great-grand- children to George, duke of Clarence, brother to king Edward the IVth, and Anthony Fortefcue, who had married their fitter, with others, were accufed of confpiring to withdraw themfelves into France, upon a defign formed of landing an army from thence in Wales, there to proclaim the queen of Scots queen of England, and to declare this Arthur Poole duke of Clarence ; all which they confeflfed at their trials, protefting, however, that they had no de- fign in it during the life of queen Elizabeth, but had been rafhly induced to credit fome who pretended to foretell that her majefty would not outlive that year. The words of Camden are, " Quas iingula pro Tribunali ingenue funt confeffi, proteftati tamen non haec fufcepturos Elizabetha fuperftite, quam anno vertente moritu- ram illicitis ariolorum artibus feducli crediderant." Arthur Poole' s brother, whofe name was Edmund, has left two infcriptions : " M. 2,1. E. Poole, 1563," and " M. zj. E. P. A 1568." PI. VI. Fig. 1,2. In Strype's Annals of the Reformation, Vol. I. p. 373, we are told that " Arthur Pole, Edmonde Pole, Anthonye Fortefcue, John