an Apartment in the Tower: of London. 71

before, but was Hayed till then. This lady, being nothing at all abafhcd, neither with feare of her owne death, which then ap- proached, neither with the fight of the dead carcafe of her huf- band, when he was brought into the chapell, came foorth, the lieutenant leading her, with countenance nothing abafhed, neither her eyes any thing moiftened with teares. (although her gentlewo- men Elizabeth Tilney and miftrefle Helen wonderfully wept) with a book in her hand, wherein fhe prayed imtill fhe came to the fayd icafTold, whereon when fhe was mounted, ihe was beheaded: whofe deaths were the more haftened for fear of further troubles and ftirre for her title, like as her father had attempted." It is farther ftated in the Anecdotes of Diftinguifhed Perfons be- fore cited, Vol. IV. p. i ^y, thai " on the wall of the room in which fhe (lady Jane Gray) was imprifoned in the Tower, flic wrote with a pin thefe lines : " Non aliena putes homini quas obtingere pofTunt, Sors hodierna mihi eras erit ilia tibi." " To mortals' common fate thy mind refign, - My lot to-day, to-morrow may be thine." no veftiges of the above infcription were lately difcovered. With regard to Plate IV. Fig. 4, I fhould fuppofe that by " Doc- tor Cook, 1537*" is' meant the fame perfon who is recorded in Howe's Chronicle, p. 581, under the name of " Laurence Cooke, prior of Dancafter," to have been with five others drawn to Tyburn, and hanged, and quartered. They had all been attainted by par- liament for denial of the king's fupremacy. As to the infcription, "Adam Scdbar Albas Jorevall 1537," PI. IV. Fig. 3, we read in Howe's Chronicle, under that year, p. .574, that " in June, Adam Sodbury, abbot of Gervaux, was put to death ;" and fomewhat fuller, in Willis' Hiftory of Mitred Abbies, p. 575, cited