federates, their most horrible and traiterous practises against her majesties most royall person and the realme, &c. imprinted at London Jan. 1582." 8vo. we are informed that on "the 21st 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 treasons, "except John Collington, who was quit of the former high treason by the jewrie."
We gather from the same authority that Edmond Campion, jesuit, Raphe Sherwin and Alexander Brian, seminary priests, were drawn from the Tower on hurdles, and executed at Tyburne Dec. 1, 1581.
It appears farther that this John Colleton, or Collington, for his name is spelled both ways, was committed to the Tower on the very day on which he made the above inscription, viz. July 22, 1581, from "a very true report of the apprehension and taking of that arche-papist Edmund Campion, the pope his right hand, with three other lewd Jesuit priests, and divers other laie people, most seditious persons of like sort, by George Ellyott, one of the ordinary yeomen of her majestyes chamber. 1581." Signat. G. 3. 6.
In a part of Beauchamp's Tower, now converted into a kitchen, were discovered the following inscriptions:
"The man whom this howse can not mend
Hathe evill becoom and worse will end"
(Two acorns, with an oak leaf in the middle.)
"The following infcription in old Italian.
"Dispoi die vore La
Fortuna che ba mea
Speransa va al ven-
to pianger Ho volio
