an Apartment m the Tower cf London. 77

the river Thames fyx myles beyonde Gravefende, to the intente to tranfporte the fame Anthonie Fortefcue, Arthur Pole, and the re- fydue of the confpirators left behinde, into Flaunders, to the intente to performe the feyd traytcrous confpiracyes. Item, yt is further found, that the fame Arthur Pole, and other the confpirators abovenamed, being lefte behinde in Englande, came into the fayd boate fo provyded : and therein layd dyvers armures and certeyn munytyon for warre, and fommes of money, and other things neceflarye for theyr fayd journey : and alfo remayned in a certen inne called the Dolphyn, for opportunyty of tyme, to be conveyed by the fame boate into the feyd hoye, and therein to be tranfported into Flaunders to the entents aforefeyd. And here- uppon the fame indytemente concludeth with this eiFecle uppon all theis matters aforefeyd, layd together, that the feyd confpirators dyd compaiTe and ymagyne the depofinge, death, and fynall de- {Iru&ion of our foveraigne ladye the queen." The above is a copy from the Cecil MSS. The parties indicled upon this matter, were, by the whole confent of the judges of the realm then in being, arraigned and adjudged traytors at Weftminfter : but the queen, of her clemency, and per- haps from the confideration of their being, at lean: the Poles, of the blood royal, fpared their lives. It mould feem, however, that both Arthur and Edmund Poole were confined during their lives in the Tower : for in the regifter of the Tower chapel there remain between the years 1565 and 1578 the two following entries: " Mr. Arthur Poole buried in the chappell." " Mr. Arthur Poole's brother buried in the chappell." Plate VII. Mifcellaneous arms, ciphers, and infcriptions. " En Dieu eft won Efperance" I fuppofe this to have been done by Henry the Vlllth earl of Northumberland,