an Apartment In the Tower of London.

Semper Stel me Tri/io e Difconteto. Wilim Tyrrel 1541 [a]" No account of William Tyrrell can be found. The above me- lancholy infcription feems to imply that the perfon who made it had been condemned, and was impatient for the day of his exe- cution. It is one. of thofe genuine effufions of anguifli which may be ftiled, in the pathetic language of the Book of Pfalms, " The forrowful fighing; of the prifoner." irrwnae*; The allufion to aflrology marks very ftrongly the fuperftition of the age. " William Rame 2,2, die Aprilis An 9 1559. Better it is to be in the howfe of mornyng then in the houze of ban- keting. The harte of the wyje is in the mornyng howze. It is better to have fome chajlening then to have over moche liberte. There is a tymefor all things, a tyme to be borne and a tyme to dye, and the daye of deathe is better than the daye of birthe. There is an ende of all things, ande the ende of a thinge is beter then the begenyng. Be wyfe and pacyente in troble, for wyfedome defendith us as well as twonie. '^L* Ufe weil the tyme of profperite, and remember the tyme of mysfor- tune" [] The following tranflation of this infcription was given by a learned member of this fociety. " Since fortune hath chofen that my hope Should go to the wind to complain : I wifh The time were deftroyed : my planet being ever Sorrowful and difcontented. It