7^ Account of Infcriptions difcovered on the Walls of

cited in Burton's Monafticon Eboracenfe, p. 373, that " Adam- Sedburgh,the eighteenth and laft abbot of Joreval, Jervaux or Gervis abbey in Yorkfhire, was hanged in June, A. D. 1537, for oppofing the king (Henry the VHIth's) meafures." Plate IV. Fig. 5, exhibits a true copy of the autograph of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and fon of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded, A. D. 1572. The fentence to which he has fubcribed his name, " Quanta plus afflicJionis pro Chrtflo in hoc faculo, tanto plus glorice cum Chr'tfto in futuro-" is remarkably adapted to the character that has been left of him, according with the aufterities which, Camden tells us, he ufed to praclife, and the tenor of his behaviour, which other accounts have tran/mitted to us, as not unbecoming the primitive ages of the ehriflian church- We are informed by Dodd, in his Church Hiftory, that he was a zealous profeflbr of the catholic faith, whereof he gave many re- markable proofs during his fufferings for the caufe. This infcription appears, by the date June 2,2,, 1587, to have been made about two years after his commitment to the Tower. The fentences underneath feem probably to have been added af- ter his death by fubfequent Roman catholic prisoners, &c. by way of eulogium on his memory. " Gloria et honor e eum coronaflt domine" In the laft there has been an omiffion of the latter part, " the memory of the wicked mall rot," perhaps through fear of the party then uppermoft, who are pretty ilrongly glanced at by the in- troduction of the firft word " At" In 1585 this prudent, as well as pious nobleman, forefeeing a ftorm gathering and threatening his party, on account of fome at- tempts to fet the queen of Scots at liberty, formed a refolution of quitting the kingdom ; but as he was taking fhipping, by the trea- chery