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VII. Account of Inscriptions discovered on the Walls of an Apartment in the Tower of London. By the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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There is a room in Beauchamp's Tower, in the Tower of London, antiently the place of confinement for state prisoners, and which has lately been converted into a mess-room for the officers of the garrison there [a]. On this alteration being made a great number of inscriptions was discovered on the walls of the room, which probably have, for the most part, been made with nails, and are all of them, it should seem, the undoubted autographs, at different periods, of the several illustrious and unfortunate tenants of this once dreary mansion. For the discovery, as well as the preservation, of these most curious memorials, the Society stand indebted to the unremitted zeal and attention of their respectable member, Colonel Smith, F. R. S. major of the Tower of London.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1800

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page 68 note [a] See an inside View of this Rcom, PI. II.

page 87 note [a] The following translation of this inscription was given by a learned member of this society.

“Since fortune hath chosen that my hope

Should go to the wind to complain: I wish

The time were destroyed: my planet being ever

Sorrowful and discontented.