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Prisoner's inscription

Prisoner's inscription
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Prisoner's inscription
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Tower of London, London, UK
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The Bell Tower. Inscription carved at the entrance to the uppermost room by Thomas Miagh, recording his interrogation and torture at the Tower in 1581 The inscription reads: 'Bi torture straunge/My trouth was tried/Yet of my libertie den/ied Therfor reson hath/Me perswadyd that/Pasyens must be ymb/rasyd thogh hard Fortun chasyth/Me wyth smart/Yet pasyens shal pre/vail' Thomas Miagh was sent to the Tower on suspicion of being implicated in one of the continuous series of rebellions that marked Elizabethan rule in Ireland. He was tortured in 1581, first in the Scavenger's Daughter, then on the rack. He was later released

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