"A passage perillus maketh a port pleasant. 1568, Arthur Poole."
"No hope is hard or vayne that happ doth us attain. 1568" (probably left by Arthur Poole or his brother Edmund)
"Unhappie is that man whose actes doth procuer the miseri of this hous in prison to endure. 1576, T.C. " (probably Thomas Clarke)
"Hit is the poynt of a wise man to try and then truste; for happy is he whome fyndeth one that is just. 1578, T.C." (probably Thomas Clarke)
"As vertue maketh life; so sin cawseth death. July 1585, Thomas Bawdewin"
And this anonymous inscription, which probably reflected thoughts of all the tower's inhabitants through the ages, as they awaited their punishments for conspiracy or other charges:
"O unhappy man that I think myself to be."
We have a new display in the case outside the Bullis Room. Next week we'll post a list of the (red-covered) books in "What Have You Red Lately?"
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These are great comments. I can't even imagine the cold and the damp and the damp and the despair. Just a quick, not-at-all official search shows from openlibrary.org a possible pub date of 1879, and then according to archive.org, an abridgment was published around 1891.
Thanks for sharing this material with those of us who aren't so close to the Bullis Room anymore!
To hultenlk: You're welcome! And thank you for your comment.
A few weeks ago some of us volunteers did not know the Beauchamp Tower existed. Then we happened upon this wonderful little booklet.
We're wishing we could take a field trip to the tower and experience it first-hand.
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