"in making some alterations, the workmen came upon an old dungeon, which had been, for many years, built up and forgotten. every stone of its inner wall was covered by inscriptions which had been carved by prisoners dates, names, complaints, and prayers. upon a corner stone in an angle of the wall, one prisoner, who seemed to have gone to execution, had cut as his last work, three letters. they were done with some very poor instrument, and hurriedly, with an unsteady hand.