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I mould think are the initials of Robert Dudley, " Sonne," fays- Howe, p. 6 1 8, " to the late duke of Northumberland, who in 1554 was arrayned at the Guild Hall of London of high treafon : he confeffed the inditement, and had judgement given by the earl of Suflex to be drawne, hanged, bowelled, and quartered." The fame authority informs us that he had been committed to the Tower / by the name of Lord Robert Dudley, July 36, 1553. " F. Page" Though the initial of the chriftian name is bent, as if for a P. Sed quaere. " Francis Page," on the authority of Dod, in his Church Hif- tory, " having fpent fome time in the municipal laws in England, went abroad, and, being ordained prieft, returned as a miflionary into his own country. He refided for the moft part with Mrs. Anne Line, a widow gentlewoman ; and beingj at laft feized, and condemned to die, for receiving orders, he was executed at Tyburn in the year 1601. He infifted, at his trial, that being a reputed alien, born at Antwerp, the law did not reach him. But not being able to produce his proofs immediately, his plea was overruled ; though it was looked upon to be a great hardlhip that he had not time allowed him to make good his allegation. Mrs. Line was alfa profecuted and fuffered death for entertaining him. Alegambe gives Mr. Page a place in his catalogue, but," fays Dod, " I do not find that he was ever admitted among the jefuits : neither, indeed, does Alegambe affirm it." " Ferbum Domini manet 1568. John Prim." This prifoner was moft probably fome prieft of the Roman Ca- tholic communion. " Jhori