John Brand

“ So, steadfastly refusing to take the oath of supremacy, as he had done several times before within the Tower, he was drawn from thence on a hurdle to Tyburn, June 1, 1571. He made a bold speech at the place of execution, and died, as he lived, a zealous assertor of the faith of his ancestors. He was cut down before he was deprived of the use of his senses; and, as it was reported, struggled with the executioner while he was rifling among his bowels. His head was placed upon London Bridge, and his quarters upon the gates of the city. People were variously affected by his death. ”

“ When his trial came on, several things were alledged against him, viz. his cruel treatment of the protestants in queen Mary's reign; several treasonable speeches against the queen and government while he resided in Antwerp. But the chief article of his indictment was his denying the queen's supremacy. In his defence he insisted very much upon his being the king of Spain's sworn servant ”

“ It appears from Camden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth and other authorities, that this Charles Bailly, or Bailif, as Camden spells his name, was a person engaged in the service and practices of the queen of Scots, who, coming over to England early in the year 1571, was the moment he landed at Dover seized and imprisoned. By the first inscription he appears to have been in the Tower on the 10th of April that year. ”

“ The second inscription is pretty perfect: The initials plainly shew the abbreviations of the name of Christ in Greek. "Principium sapientie timor Domini."
"Be friend to one, be enemy to none. Hoping, have patience. A. D. 1571, 10 Sept. The most unhappy man in the world is he that is not patient in adversities; for men are not killed with the adversities they have, but with the impatience which they suffer." ”

“ Collins, who seems to have known nothing of his ever having been a prisoner in the Tower of London, tells us that "Sir Ingelram, or Ingram Percy, knight, was receiver of the revenue of the earl his brother in the northern parts of the county of Northumberland. He never married, but died about the latter end of the year 1538, leaving only an illegitimate daughter, to whom in his will he "bequethes twenty pounds, the whiche twenty pounds he wills the lady his mother shall have the use thereof, with the childe, untill she be of lawful age. ”

“ He made an unhappy end, for, upon some accusation, as though he and some other English had entered into a plot to murder that governor of Flanders, he was executed the year following, though to the last he persevered in attesting his innocence. Strype concludes his account of him with laying, "But this is enough to have remembered of this unfortunate gentleman, and penitent rebel, but of a turbulent spirit. Egremond RadclifF."
There were found two inscriptions with the name of Charles Bailly, in the service of the queen of Scots. ”

“ Also that of "Eagremond Radclyff 1576, pour parvenir" the undoubted autograph cut in stone, of a person, noble by birth, the son of Henry earl of Suffex, half brother to Thomas, then earl of Suffex, lord high chamberlain of the queen's household. But being young, says Strype, and of a haughty spirit, and a papist, he was engaged in the rebellion in the north in 1569, and made a shift afterwards to fly into Spain and Flanders. He ventured to Calais in 1575, and we soon afterwards find him committed to the Tower of London. ”

“ And to bring in an army of 5,000 men of the enemyes of our sayd queen, from the seyd duke of Guyse, and with the same armye in Maye next after to arrive in Wales, and there to proclaim the seyd Skottysh queen to be queen of England: and afterwards from the parte of Wales to come into this realm, and to move the subjects to ryse and rebell against the queene, and to make the said Skottyshe queen queen of this realme, and to depose our sovereign ladye. ”

“ And at their arrivall in Flanders they shoulde publish the seyd Arthur Pole to be duke of Clarence. And then should send their letters unto the queen mother, the king of Navarre, and the duke of Guyse, signifying the arrival of the duke of Clarence in Flanders, and to request ayd, acceptation, and adherence unto their sayd intents. ”

“ Strype, in his Annals, Vol. III. p. 318, mentions a letter from Robert Turner, a native of Devonshire, public professor of Divinity at Ingolstade in Germany, A. D. 1585, to cardinal Allen at Rome, recommending an English man, one Edward Coffin, ready at his service, to be admitted into the English college at Rome, (where Allen was chief) being a young man, a catholic, and an exile;" whom (as he flattereth him) England loved, Rome adorned, banishment hath, as it were ratified (fanxit) the patron and father of Englishmen, catholics, and exiles." ”

“ Queen Mary's accession favouring his return, he came back into England, and was considered suitably to his capacity and merits. The patent of professor in Oxford was restored to him; but this he quickly gave up for places of greater advantage. He was frequently employed in what regarded the canon law in the courts held in London; and being made chancellor of the diocese of Oxford, it engaged him to be very active in prosecuting the protestants of queen Mary's reign. When queen Elizabeth came to the crown Dr. ”

“ And to bringe the same to passe, they conspired to raise and make insurrection and warre within this realme againste the queen.
And for the further bringing of the same to passe, they agreed amongst themselves to depart this realme into Flanders, and from thence into France. ”

“ There is a tyme for 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. ”

“ In A. Munday's " Discoverie of Edmund Campion and his confederates, 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." ”

“ Thomas Clarke."
(In another place.)
"Hit is the poynt of a wyfe man to try and then truste
For hapy is he who fyndeth one that is just.
T. C."
Dod, in his Church History, (Vol II. p. 75) mentions a "Thomas Clarke (probably this prisoner) a priest of the Roman communion, but of what order he did not find," adding, that "He became a protestant and made his recantation sermon at St. Paul's Cross, July 1, 1593."
"Thomas Miagh 1581. ”