bly imploring of her majesty, for God's sake, to command him rather to be executed than to let him live in the torment of body and mind he was in."
By the other, dated May 6, 1577, to the lord treasurer, it appears that the queen had pardoned him on condition that he should immediately leave the kingdom.
He accordingly went abroad, and entered into the service of don John of Austria. 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. The first of these is much mutilated the date April 10, 1571.—It was, however, made out nearly as follows: "Wise men ought circumspectly to see what they do: to examine before they speak: to prove what they take in hande: to canvass whose company they use: and above all, to whom they trust."
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."
"Tout vient a poient quy peult attendre"
"Gli sosbiri ne son testemoni veri dell angoscia mia"
