,83 Account of Infcriptions dlfcovered on the Walls of

" Francis Owdal. 1541.'* No account of this prifoner. " Lancafter Herald Francis Eul." Two Croffes. I can form no conjecture on the intention of the above infcrip- tion, unlefs the mutilated name at the bottom may have been for that of fome Roman catholic prifoner. G- Plate VI. Fig. 3. -A G on each fide of the arms of Gtfford, i. e. the fame arms given by Edmondfon to the Glffords of Worcefter- fhire, Buckinghamshire, Ireland, and Wotton-under Edge in Glou- cefterfhire, " Argent, ten torteauxes, four, three, two, and one.'* Date 1586. By way of creft to the fhield, a hand grafping three flowers. Underneath 7 /. .inc Mala Lon/cientta factt ut tut a timeantur. 3fmJL " > T G. Gyfordr (In another place) " Ftdelis non Felix Dolor pat jentid vincitiir. G. Gyfford, Auguft 8, 1586.'* Bimop Carleton, in his " Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercie," p. 1,06, tells us that " George GiiFard, one of the queenes Gentleman Pencionaries, had fworne to kill the queene, and for that caufe had wiped Guife of a great fumme of money." Probably this was the prifoner that made the above infcriptions ; and yet we are informed in Strype's Annals, Vol. III. p. 417, under the year 1586, of a " Gilbert Giffourd, a prieft, who was concerned in a conspiracy againft the queen," where it is added, that " upon the difcovery of this