70 Account of Infer rpt ions dtfcovercd on the Walls of

of Suffolk, and lately married to Gnildford Dudley, his youngeft fon. This lady Jane he and his adherents actually proclaimed queen on the death of Edward the Vlth.

Overpowered, however, by the fuperior intereft of the princefs Mary, he was arrefted at Cambridge, July 35, 1553, conducted to the Tower of London, and beheaded on the 32rid of Auguft fol- lowing; fo that this curious piece of fculpture muft have been done in lefs than a month's time. The infcriptron, it fhould feem, has' been left unfinifhed. His name, in the fpelling of the age, is un- der the creft of the lion and bear and ragged ftaff. It is difficult to afcertain what is meant, if no pun is couched under them, by the following lines : " Yow that thefe Beafts do -well behold andfe May deme withe eafe wlierfore here made they be Withe Borders eke wherein ---------- The Brothers names who lift toferche the ground" taking it for granted that a pun is intended, the Rofes eafily feparate themfelves in the divifion of his brother Ambrofe's chrhtian name. Plate IV. Fig. I, 2, contains a repetition, taken from different fides of the room, of the royal title of the amiable and unfortunate lady Jane Gray. She had, perhaps, a latent meaning in this repetition of her figna- ture Jane, by which me at once ffcyled herfelf a queen and intimated that not even the horrors of a prifon could force her to relinquifh that title. The magnanimity of this illuftrious claimant and victim of roy- alty, to the very laft, is thus recorded in Howe's Chronicle, p. 62,2,* " The 1 2th of February, (1554) being Monday, there was a fcaf- fold made upon the greene for the lady Jane to die upon, who with her hufband was appointed to have been put to death on the Friday before,