86 Account of Infcriptions dtfcovered on the Walls of

federates, their moft horrible and traiterous practifes againft her ma- jefties moft royall perfon and the realme, &c. imprinted at London Jan. 1583." 8vo. we are informed that on " the sift of Nov. 1581, John Hart, Thomas Foord, William Filbie, Lawrence Richard, John Shert, Alexander Brian, and John Collington, were brought to their trials, and all found guilty of the treafons, " except John Collington, who was quit of the former high treafon by the jewrie." We gather from the fame authority that Edmond Campion, jefuit, Raphe Sherwin and Alexander Brian, feminary priefts, were drawn from the Tower on hurdles, and executed at Tyburne Dec. I, 1581. It appears farther that this John Colleton, or Collington, for his name is fpelled both ways, was committed to the Tower on the very day on which he made the above infcription, viz. July 2,2, 1581, from " a very true report of the apprehenfion and taking of that arche-papift Edmund Campion, the pope his right hand, with three other lewd Jefuit priefts, and divers other laie people, moft feditious perfons of like fort, by George Ellyott, one of the ordi- nary yeomen of her majeftyes chamber. 1581." Signat. G. 3. 6. In a part of Beauchamp's Tower, now converted into a kitchen, were difcovered the following infcriptions : " The man whom this howfe can not mend Hat he evill becoom and worfe will end" (Two acorns, with an oak leaf in the middle.) " The following infcription in old Italian. " Difpol die vore La Fortuna die ba mea Speranfa va al ven- to planger Ho volio El Tempo Perduto J E Semper