^{page note 132 a} The pedigree is printed in the Collectanea Topogr, et Genealogiea, vol. vi. p. 382.

^{page note 133 a} It is Perrynes in Gr.11 Coll. Arm., Perynes in H.12 Coll. Arm., Peromes in MS. Harl. 810 ; Perrins in MS. Harl. 1167 ; and Price in MSS. Harl. 1100 and 1563. In Dugdale's Warwickshire, edit. Thomas, p. 607, it is printed Percones. Underhill himself has written the name Speryne, hereafter, p. 153.

^{page note 133 b} Thomas's Dugdale's Warw. ut supra, on the authority of a pedigree shown to Cooke, Chester herald, at Warwick, July 16, 1564.

^{page note 133 c} MS. Harl. 810, f. 9.

^{page note 133 d} Machyn's Diary, p. 280. The arms of Underhill were, Argent, on a chevron between three trefoils slipped vert three bezants ; quartering Porter, Sable, three bells argent, a canton ermine. “Thus by Clarencyeulx Harvy.” (MS. Harl. 810, p. 9.) An old seal of the Underhill family now in the possession of Evelyn Philip Shirley, esq. M.P. of Eatington Park, displays the coat of Underhill without bezants, and for crest a buck trippant.

^{page note 134 a} The queen came to the Tower on the 3rd of August, 1553 : see Machyn's Diary, p. 38.

^{page note 134 b} This ballad is perhaps not to be identified, even if a copy should chance to be in existence. It appears, however, from what passed before the council, that it was printed and published, and that the authority of Tyndale was asserted in it (see p. 140). Underhill afterwards mentions that he had written a ballad against dicers. One of his poetical productions will be found at the close of his anecdotes.

^{page note 134 c} Sir John Bourne, of whom Underhill gives some remarkable anecdotes hereafter.

^{page note 134 d} Limehouse was at this period a hamlet in the parish of Stepney. It was constituted a distinct parish by act of parliament in 1730. Its earlier name was Limehurst, as Underhill writes it, and as we are told by Stowe, in whose time “Radcliffe itself hath also been increased in building eastward (in place whereof I have known a large highway with fair elm trees on both sides,) that the same hath now taken hold of Lime-hurst, or Lime-host, corruptly called Limehouse, sometime distant a mile from Ratcliffe.” Survay of London.

^{page note 135 a} Sir William Garrard, afterwards lord mayor in 1555–6 : see note in Machyn's Diary, p. 347.

^{page note 135 b} “In the name of God !” an extravagantly strong form of signifying assent.

^{page note 136 a} Underbill's mother, as already mentioned, was Anne, daughter of Robert Winter, who had an elder brother Gilbert, named in the pedigree of Winter, MS. Harl. 1566, f. 108 b.: but the Gilbert Winter of the text does not occur in that pedigree.

^{page note 136 b} Sir Edward Hastings was a younger brother to Francia earl of Huntingdon ; knighted by the duke of Somerset in the Scotish campaign of 1547. He had been one of Underhill's comrades in the band of gentlemen pensioners (as hereafter mentioned, p. 144.) Having signalised his activity in promoting the accession of queen Mary, he was made her master of the horses in July 1553 ; a knight of the Garter 1555 ; lord chamberlain on the 25th Dec. 1557 ; and created lord Hastings of Loughborough on the 19th Jan. following. He died without issue in 1572. See copious memoirs of him in Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 577, together with an engraving of his figure in stained glass at Stoke Pogeis, co. Bucks, which is also given in Gough's Sepulchral Monuments.

^{page note 136 c} Francis second earl of Huntingdon 1544, K.G. 1549, died 1561. He married Katharine Pole, daughter and co-heir of Henry lord Montagu; and the royal blood (of Clarence) thus derived to his heir apparent Henry lord Hastings, attracting the ambitious regard of John Dudley duke of Northumberland, led that aspiring man to court his alliance. Lord Hastings was married to the lady Katharine Dudley at the same time as lord Guild - ford Dudley espoused the lady Jane Grey. This led to the temporary imprisonment of the earl of Huntingdon and his son at the accession of Mary, but the queen soon released them, probably from regard to sir Edward Hastings. The son's imprisonment was very short, for we are told that when the earl of Arundel brought the duke of Northumberland to the Tower on the 25th of July, he “discharged the lord Hastings, and had him away with him.” The earl received two pardons, dated the 4th Nov. and 8th Dec. 1 Mary, and lord Hastings another. (Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. 580, 583.)

^{page note 136 a} Whilst Boulogne still remained in the possession of an English garrison, the French “placed the Rhinegrave, with divers regiments of Almains, lancequenets, and certain ensigns of French, to the number of four or five thousand, in the town of Morguison, midway between Bulloine and Calais, to impeach all intercourse between the two places. Wherupon the king of England caused all the strangers that had served the year [in England] against the rebels, to the number of 2,000, to be transported, to Calais, and to them were added 3,000 English, under the command of Francis earl of Huntingdon and sir Edward Hastings his brother, to dislodge the French, or other wise to annoy them.” (Hayward's Life and Reign of Edward VI.) The negotiations shortly after ensued which ended in the surrender of Boulogne.

^{page note 137 b} i. e. if.

^{page note 138 a} Richard Coxe, then dean of Westminster and afterwards bishop of Ely, who had been schoolmaster and almoner to the late king Edward. Underhill states hereafter that the 5th of August was the day when he was examined and committed to prison: and the accuracy of what he here relates with regard to doctor Coxe and lord Ferrers will be found confirmed in Machyn's Diary at p. 39 ; doctor Coxe was committed to the same lodgings in the prison of the Marshalsea which had been the same day vacated by bishop Bonner, as stated by Machyn, and also in a letter inserted in The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 15.

^{page note 138 b} Walter Ferrers, first viscount Hereford, so created in 1549–50 : but he still continued to be called “lord Ferrys,” i. e. the lord Ferrers of Chartley, as here in the text; and by Machyn in The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 26; and by Stowe on the same occasion, He. had married the lady Mary Grey, great-aunt to the lady June. He was released from the Tower on the 6th of September, “with a great fine.” (Machyn, p. 43.)

^{page note 138 c} John Russell, first easrl of Bedford, who had been appointed lord privy seal by Henry VIII. in 1542, and continued in that office until his death, March 14, 1554–5.

^{page note 139 a} Thomas Ratcliffe, second earl of Sussex 1542–1556–7, K.G. 1554. He was captain of the band of gentlemen pensioners, as Underbill afterwards mentions. See note on him in Maohyn's Diary, p. 355.

^{page note 139 b} Sir Richard Southwell, before mentioned in this volume by archdeacon Louthe, (p. 44,) had not been employed in the reign of Edward VI. but gave his zealous adherence to queen Mary. By letters patent dated 4 Dec. 1553, he received a yearly pension of 100l. for his services against the duke of Northumberland. (Rymer, xv. 355.)

^{page note 139 c} Henry Fitz-Alan, last earl of Arundel of his name 1543–1579, K.G. 1543. He was restored, on the accession of Mary, to his office of great master of the household, of which he had been deprived in favour of the duke of Northumberland.

^{page note 139 d} William lord Paget, also restored to favour and fortune by the accession of queen Mary, after he had been degraded from the order of the Garter in the reign of Edward VI. Queen Mary made him lord privy seal June 29, 1555–6.

^{page note 139 e} See note in Machyn's Diary, p. 349. He was constable of the Tower of London from 1540 until his death in 1556, and lord chamberlain from queen Mary's accession in 1553.

^{page note 139 f} John Bourchier, second earl of Bath 1539–1560.

^{page note 139 g} Sir John Mason, sometime secretary for the French tongue.

^{page note 139 h} Richard Morgan, autumn reader at the Middle Temple and at Lincoln's Inn 1546, called to the degree of serjeant-at-law 1547. He was notorious as a zealous Romanist in the reign of Edward, and with sir Anthony Browne was sent to the Fleet on the 22nd March, 1550–1, “for hearing mass.” (King Edward's Journal, p. 310.) He was made lord chief justice of the common pleas Sept. 5, 1553, and knighted on the morrow of the coronation of queen Mary, Oct. 2 following. His name is memorable in history as having presided at the condemnation of the lady Jane : and Holinshed and Foxe both relate that “Judge Morgan, that gave the sentence against hir, shortly after fell mad, and in hys raving cryed continuallye to have the ladie Jane taken away from him, and so ended his life.” His funeral at St. Magnus London Bridge, on the 2nd June, 1556, will be found described in Machyn's Diary, p. 106.

^{page note 139 i} Thomas second lord Wentworth 1552–1590. He was lord deputy of Calais at its loss in 1557: see his trial thereon in Machyn's Diary, p. 195.

^{page note 140 a} Francis lord Russell: see p. 145 hereafter.

^{page note 140 b} Sirrah.

^{page note 140 c} marry, i. e. by Mary.

^{page note 141 a} This was a term proverbially applied to those who were inveterate supporters of ancient errors, and satisfied in old usage did not care to inquire further. Tyndale, in his Practice of Prelates 1530, speaks of “mumpsimuses of divinity” among the doctors summoned to dispute upon the king's divorce from queen Katharine. Latimer introduces the term in two of his sermons : in that preached on the first Sunday in Advent 1552,—“when my neighbour is taught, and knoweth the truth, and will not believe it, but will abide in his old mumpsimus, then,” — “Some be so obstinate in their old mumpsimus, that they cannot abide the true doctrine of God.” And king Henry himself, in his last speech to parliament, made in 1545, set forth the import of the term very plainly: “I see and heare dayly (he remarked) that you of the clergy preach one agaynst an other, teach one contrary to an other, inveigh one agaynst an other, without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, other be too busy and curious in their new sumpsinvus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord, and few or none do preach truely and sincerely the word of God, according as they ought to do.” Upon which passage Koxe makes the following comment: “Princes which exhort to concord and charitie doe well, but princes which seeke out the causes of discord, and reforme the same, do much better. The Papist and Protestant, Heretick and Pharisee, the old Mumpsimus and the newe Sumpsimus, be terms of variance and dissention, and be (I graunt) symtomata of a sore wound in the common wealth,” “De fructu qui ex doctrinâ percipitur,” tells a story of an ignorant English priest who for thirty years together had read mumpsimus in his breviary instead of sumpsimus, and when a learned man told him of his blunder replied, “I'll not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus!” “Quidam indoctus sacrificus Anglus per annos triginta mumpsimus legere solitus est loco sumpsimus, et quum moneretur à docto ut errorem emendaret, respondit, Se nolle mutare suum antiquum mumpsimus ipsius novo sumpsimus.” Paceus, De fructu qui ex doctrinâ percipitur liber. Basil, 1517, p. 80.

^{page note 141 b} “By the mass,” an ordinary mode of asseveration with Roman Catholics.

^{page note 142 a} Sir John Bourne, probably as being known to be a stanch and zealous Romanist, was raised to sudden eminence on the accession of Mary. He was knighted on the morrow of her coronation, October 2, 1553; and licensed to keep forty retainers. He continued secretary through Mary's reign, and figures frequently in the pages of Foxe, who terms him “a chief stirer of persecutions.” There is no pedigree of Bourne in the visitation of Worcestershire, and one in that for the county of Somerset, 1623, does not give the name of the father of sir John Bourne. Battenhall near Worcester, a manor and park, formerly the country residence of the priors of Worcester, was granted to sir John Bourne in 36 Henry VIII., and sold by his son Anthony in 13 Eliz. It appears from Nash's Worcestershire (ii. 201) that the name of sir John's wife, who has already occurred in p. 68 of the present volume, was Dorothy. In the reign of Elizabeth sir John Bourne, who was steward of the church of Worcester, entered into great disputes with the new Protestant bishop, Edwin Sandys, which led to various frays in Worcester, and eventually to sir John's imprisonment for six or seven weeks in the Marshalsea: of the particulars, full details will be found in the first volume of Strype's Annals. Sir John died in 1563, leaving his estates to his son Anthony (also mentioned in p. 68), and who was seated at Holt Castle, once the residence of the lords Beauchamp of Holt ; but which, with most of his other estates, he sold to lord chancellor Bromley. Nash (ii. 311) terms him the “unfortunate son” of sir John. He figures in the frays with “the bishop's boys” above noticed. One of his daughters and coheirs was married to sir Herbert Croft. Gilbert Bourne, made bishop of Bath and Wells by queen Mary in 1554, (after having been a canon of Worcester from 1541,) was son of Philip, brother to sir John: he left his property to his brother Richard, from whom descended the Bournes of Wivelscombe in Somersetshire. Of him memoirs are given in Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, and Cassan's Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells.

^{page note 143 a} Robert Winter of Wych, co. Worcester, by his second wife Katharine, daughter of sir George Throckmorton, had issue George, who married Jane daughter of sir William Ingleby of Ripley, co. York; which George Winter was apparently the uncle to whom Underhill alludes.

^{page note 143 b} The family of Sheldon had at this period spread into several branches, and it is difficult to identify the gentleman named in the text. See the pedigree of this ancient and long enduring house in Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 64. Most probably, however, the writer alludes to William Sheldon of Beoley esquire, who died at his house called Skilles in Warwickshire, 23 Dec. 1573, and was brought to Beoley and there buried; having married for his second wife Margaret daughter to sir Richard Brooke lord chief baron, widow of William Whorwood attorney-general to Henry VIII., which Margaret is buried at St. Thomas Apostle's London. (Visit. Wore. MS. Harl. 1352, f. 28.)

^{page note 144 a} The duke was then a prisoner in the Tower, waiting his trial.

^{page note 144 b} Sir Edward Hastings.

^{page note 144 c} Sir John Brydges was made lieutenant of the Tower upon the accession of queen Mary, and she created him lord Chandos of Sudeley in April 1554. He was succeeded as lieutenant, in the following June, by his brother Thomas, who had previously assisted him in the duties of the office. (See the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 18, 53, 57, 76.)

^{page note 145 a} Francis lord Russell, afterwards second earl of Bedford 1554–1585. At the end of July 1553 (says Machyn) “came to the Fleet the earle of Rutland and my lord Russell in hold.” (Diary, p. 38.) Two of Bradford's letters are to lord Russell “being then in trouble for the veritye of God's gospell.” He commends him as being highly privileged in being counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake, and very strongly exhorts him to constancy and perseverance. (Letters of the Martyrs.) Two of Becon's works are dedicated,—“The Christian Knight” to lord Russell, and “The Monstrous Merchandize of the Romish Bishops'” to Francis earl of Bedford. On the 3rd Dec. 1551, was held, at the house of sir Richard Morysin, a friendly conference concerning the sacrament between divers learned persons of the clergy and laity of both persuasions: among those present were the marquess of Northampton, the earl of Rutland, lord Russell, sir Anthony Cooke, sir William Cecill, and sir John Cheke. (Athense Cantabrigienses, i. 144.) These notices of lord Russell's religious sentiments are not included in Wiffen's Memoirs of the House of Russell.

^{page note 146 a} The Compter was the prison pertaining to the sheriffs of London, and at this period was in Wood Street, whither it had been recently removed from Bread Street in the year 1555, for reasons stated at full in Stowe's Survay.

^{page note 147 a} Foxe relates that “Alexander the keeper of Newgate, a cruell enemye to those that lay there for religion, dyed very miserably, being so swollen that hee was more like a monster than a man, and so rotten within that no man could abide the smell of him. This cruell wretch, to hasten the poore lambs to the slaughter, would goe to Boner, Story, Cholmley and others, crying out, ‘Rid my prison, rid my prison ; I am too much pestered with these heretikes.’ The sonne of the said Alexander, called James, having left unto him by his father greate substance, within three yeares wasted all to nought, and when some marveled how hee spent those goods so fast, ‘O, (said he,) evill gotten, evill spent;’ and shortly after, as he went in Newgate market, he fell downe suddenly, and there wretchedly died. John Peter, sonne-in-law to this Alexander, an horrible blasphemer of God, and no lesse cruell to the said prisoners, rotted away, and so most miserably dyed. Who commonly when he would affirme any thing, were it true or false, used to say, ‘If it bee not true, I pray God I rot ere I dye !’ Witnesse the printer herof [John Day], with divers other.”

^{page note 147 b} Sir Richard Orumwell is stated to have been the son of one Morgan Williams, by a sister of Thomas Crumwell earl of Essex, lord privy seal and vicar-general of Henry VIII. This relationship has been doubted (see Gough's Memoirs of the Cromwell Family, 4to. 1785, p. 4): but a letter of his to the great man, in which he signs himself “Your lordshipps most bounden nephewe,” will be found in Letters on the Suppression of the Monasteries, (printed for the Camden Society,) p. 146. During his uncle's supremacy there was a “great and triumphant jousting held at Westminster, commencing on May-day 1540, at which the six challengers were—sir John Dudley, sir Thomas Seymour, (both afterwards so distinguished in our political history,) sir Thomas Poynings, sir George Carew, Anthony Kingston and Richard Crumwell: who kept open household at Durham house in the Strand, and there feasted the king, queen, and court. On the second day Anthony Kingston and Richard Crumwell were made knights. On the third day sir Richard Crumwell overthrew master Palmer and his horse in the field, to the great honour of the challengers,”—probably the sir Thomas Palmer noticed in p. 158; and on the 5th May at the barriers sir Richard overthrew master Culpepper in the field. “The King gave to every of the said challengers, and their heirs for ever, in reward of their valiant activity, 100 marks and a house todwel in of yeerely revenue, out of the lands pertaining to the hospitall of St. John of Jerusalem.” Stowe (in Survay). On this occasion the king is stated to have presented a ring from his finger to sir Richard Crumwell, in token of his approbation, saying, “Henceforth you shall be called my knight”: and this incident is supposed to be commemorated in the Cromwell coat-armour—a lion rampant holding a ring. Sir Richard was in the same year made a gentleman of the privy chamber ; and in that year also he was sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon; and he successively acquired the sites of nearly all the monastic houses in the latter county,—Hinchinbroke and Saltrey in 29 Hen. VIII., Ramsey in 31 Hen. VIII., St. Neot's and Huntingdon in 33 Hen. VIII. He converted the monastic buildings at Ramsey into a dwelling house ; his son sir Henry and grandson sir Oliver (the latter the uncle of the protector) resided at Hinchinbroke.

^{page note 148 a} “In the month of July (1543) the king sent over sixe thousand men, under the leading of sir John Wallop, accompanyed with sir Thomas Seymour mar shall, sir Robert Bowes treasurer, sir Richard Cromwell captaine of the horsemen, and sir George Carew his lieutenant. There was likewise sir Thomas Palmer, sir John Ransfoorth, sir John Seint John, and sir John Gascoigne knights, that were captaines of the footmen. They were appointed to joyne with the emperor's power, and so to make war into France.” The town of Landreci in Hainault was beseiged, but the French king came to the rescue with a large army, and finally both parties separated without a battle. The particulars of this campaign will be found related in the introduction to the Life and Times of sir Peter Carew, recently edited by John Maclean, esq. F.S.A. 1857, 8vo. p. xxviii.

^{page note 148 b} A stringed instrument resembling a fiddle. 1530–1, March 11, “paied for a rebecke for great Guilliam, xxs.” (Privy-purse Expenses of Henry VIII., p. 114.)

^{page note 149 a} Baal.

^{page note 149 b} At the season of Easter in particular it was expected that every person should be houselled, that is, partake of the sacrament of the mass.

^{page note 150 a} A kind of sweet wine, mentioned in Gascoigne's Delicate Diet. Loud. 1576. (Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic Words.) Florio has “Aigléuco víno, sweet hollocke wine.” Queen Anna's New World of Words, fol. 1611, p. 17.

^{page note 150 b} At this period the population of London was dependent for fuel chiefly on wood, and next on “coal,” i. e. charcoal, made at Croydon and its neighbourhood, the supply of mineral or “sea” coal being very small. The woodmongers had their tricks of trade, and were subjected to frequent interference. Fabyan has recorded that in the winter of 1542–3 “a frost dured so longe, that many of the poore people cried out for lacke of woode and coales, that the maior went to the woode-warfes, and solde to the poore people billet and faggot, by the peniworthe. Also this yere was an acte of parliament for wood and coal to kepe the full sise, after the Purification of our Ladie that shall be in the yere of our Lorde M.D.xliii. that no man shall bargaine, sell, bryng, orconveigh of any other size to be uttred or solde, upon paine of forfeiture.” In 1561 we find “a woodmonger set in the pillory for false marking of billets, with billets hanging about him.” (Machyn's Diary, p. 267.) The Company of Woodmongers was not incorporated until 1605, but it had, like many others, existed as a voluntary association for long before.

^{page note 150 c} Robert Record, born at Tenby, co. Pembroke, in 1513, was elected fellow of Allsouls' college, Oxford, in 1531, and took the degree of M.D. at Cambridge in 1545. In 1549 he was comptroller of the mint at Bristol, and in 1551 was appointed surveyor-general of the mines and money in Ireland. His will was made in 1558, in the queen's bench prison, where he soon after died a prisoner for debt. His skill in various departments of science, and the efforts he had made to impart his knowledge to others, were worthy of a happier fate. See a catalogue of his numerous works in Athense Cantabrigienses, vol. i. p. 176.

^{page note 151 a} The Seven Sciences were accounted to be Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy ; and these are personified, so late as 1645, in the engraved title-page of Howell's Familiar Letters. But when sir Thomas Gresham founded his college in London in 1575 he made a somewhat different selection, though still retaining the number of seven,—viz. Divinity, Astronomy, Music, Geometry, Law, Medicine, and Rhetoric. For these he founded the professorships which still subsist, thus providing a lecture for every day of the week. The idea probably originated with the assertion of Solomon, Wisdom hath builded her house: she hath hewn out her Seven Pillars. (Proverbs, ix. 1.) An interesting dissertation on the frequent and wide-spread adoption of a mystical signification of “The Number Seven” will be found in Household Words, May 24, 1856; and reprinted in “Lectures and Essays on various subjects, Historical, Topographical, and Artistic. By Win. Sidney Gibson, Esq. M.A., ” 8vo. p. 183.

^{page note 151 b} Younger brother to sir Nicholas (see p. 42) : in conjunction with whom he sat in parliament for the borough of Old Sarum in 1 Mary. In his epitaph at Coughton he is described as “syr John Throkmorton knyght of Fakenham [co. Wore], the seventh sonne of syr George Throkmorton knyght of Coughton, sometime master of the requests unto queen Marie of happie memory, who in respect of his faythful service bestowed upon him the office of Justice of Chester, and of her counsayle of the marches of Wales, in whiche service he continued xxiij. yeares, and supplied within the same time the place of mr. Vice- President the space of iij. yeares.” He was knighted by queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth in the first year of her reign, and died May 22, 1580. See further in Wotton's English Baronetage, 1741, ii. 359.

^{page note 152 a} Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester.

^{page note 152 b} Sir Robert Rochester, comptroller of the household and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. He had served the lady Mary in the capacity of comptroller during her brother's reign, and in 1551 was committed to the Tower, together with the subject of the next note, and sir Francis Englefield, for resisting the order of the council which forbad the performance of mass in his mistress's family : see the Literary Remains of King Edward VI. pp. 336, 339, 348. He was one of the knights of the Bath at the coronation of queen Mary, and died on the 28th Nov. 1557, having been elected a knight of the Garter on the preceding saint George's day.

^{page note 152 c} Sir Edward Waldegrave (mentioned in the preceding note) was by queen Mary made master of her wardrobe and knighted on the morrow of her coronation, Oct. 2, 1553. His mother was Lora sister to sir Robert Rochester, on whose death in 1557 sir Edward succeeded as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. In 3 & 4 Philip and Mary he had been appointed a commissioner to inquire into heresies, —“for hearing of mass, and keeping a priest in his house.” On the 22nd April (writes Machyn) “were had to the Tower sir Edward Walgrave and my lady his wife, as good alms-folk as be in these days.” The same writer records the unfortunate result: “The first day of September died the good and gentle knight sir Edward Walgrave, while in the Tower.” His body was buried on the 3d by the high altar of St. Peter's in the Tower; and on the 8th his wife was released. (Machyn's Diary, pp. 256, 266.) Lady Waldegrave was Frances, daughter of sir Edward Neville: they were progenitors of the earls of Waldegrave, as will be seen in Collins's Peerage.

^{page note 152 d} Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, father of the lady Jane.

^{page note 152 e} William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke, brother-in-law to queen Katharine Parr.

^{page note 152 f} Sir Nicholas Throckmorton has been already noticed at p. 42 of the present volume, His wife was Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, K.G. and sister and heir to sir Francis Carew of Beddington in Surrey; by whom he had two sons and three daughters. (Wotton's English Baronetage, 1741, ii. 358.)

^{page note 153 a} See p. 133.

^{page note 153 b} On the 19th of July, 1553 : see Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 11.

^{page note 153 c} Probably Robert Chidley, Autumn reader at the Inner Temple 21 Hen. VIII. and Lent reader 28 Hen. VIII., one of the four governors of that house 34 Hen. VIII., 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary, 1, 6, 8 Eliz., and its treasurer 34 Hen. VIII. He was called to the degree of sergeant at law in 1540. (Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales.) His name occurs in 1551, 1552, and 1562 as employed by the government in judicial functions. (Literary Remains of Edward VI. p. 487, and Machyn's Diary, pp. 26, 290.)

^{page note 154 a} “Then was there one Peter a Dutchman stood on the weathercocks of Paules steeple, holding a streamer in his hand of five yards long, and waving thereof stood sometime on the one foote and shooke the other, and then kneeled on his knees, to the great marvaile of all people. Hee had made two scaffolds under him, one above the crosse, having torches and streamers set on it, and one other over the bole of the crosse, likewise set with streamers and torches, which could not burne, the winde was so great. The said Peter had sixeteene pound thirteen shillinge and foure pence given him by the city for his costs and paines, and all his stuffe.” (Stowe's Chronicle.) See another account of the sume performances in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 30.

^{page note 155 a} —“and as hee (king Edward) passed on the north side of Paul's churchyard, a man of the nation of Arragossa [Arragon ? or Saragossa ? ” in Fabgan,] came from the battlements of the steeple of Paules church upon a cable, being made fast to an anchor by the Deanes gate, lying on his breast, ayding himself neither with hand nor foote, but spreading them abroad, and after ascended to the midst of the cable, where he tumbled and played many pretty toyes, whereat the king and the nobles had good pastime.” (Stowe's Chronicle.) Again, on king Philip's state passage through London in 1554 there was a similar exhibition : see Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 150.

^{page note 155 b} “On Wednesday the 4 of June 1561, betwene 4 and 5 of the clock in the after-noone, the steeple of Paules in London, being fired by lightning, brast forth (as it seemed to the beholders) two or three yards beneath the foote of the crosse, and from thence burnt downe the speere to the stone worke and bels, so terribly, that within the space of foure houres the same steeple, with the roofes of the church so much as was timber, or otherwise combustible, were consumed.” (Stowe's Chronicle.) A contemporary pamphlet describing this calamity is reprinted in the eleventh volume of the Archseologia ; in the Appendix to Ellis's edition of Dugdale's History of St. Paul's ; and again in Poole's History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, 1848, 8vo. p. 406: in which it is stated that persons on the Thames saw lightning strike the spire. Heylyn, in his History of the Reformation, has favoured another story, that the accident was occasioned by the carelessness of a plumber ; but this is very properly corrected in a note of his recent editor the Rev. J. C. Robertson, edit. 1849, ii. 352. See also Machyn's Diary, p. 259, where it will be found that the spire of St. Martin's Ludgate was struck during the same storm. Heylyn also, one would hope with as little truth, though the passage in the text somewhat favours his view, asserts that “the Zuinglian Gospellers, or those of the Genevian party, rejoiced at this lamentable accident, affirming it for a just judgment of God upon an old idolatrous fabric, not thoroughly reformed and purged from its superstitions, and would have been content that all other cathedrals in the kingdom had been so destroyed. The Papists, on the other side, ascribed it to some practice of the Zuinglian faction, out of their hatred unto all solemnity and decency in the service of God, performed more punctually in that church, for example's sake, than in any other of the kingdom.” On the question whether the burning of Paul's church was to be regarded as a direct judgment of the Almighty, a controversy arose, originating with a sermon preached by dr. Pilkington, bishop of Durham, on the Sunday following the fire : this has been partially reprinted in Pilkington's Works, 1842, (Parker Society,) pp. 479–648.

^{page note 157 a} Henry Moore made his profession as abbot of the monastery of St. Mary de Grace, near the Tower of London, on the 7th May, 1516. (MS. Harl. 6956, p. 74.) He was presented to the vicarage of Stepney by the executors of sir Richard Williams, alias Crumwell, the farmers of the rectory, on the 6th March, 1544; and the vacancy occasioned by his death was filled in November 1554. Newcourt's Repertorium Londinense, i. 740.

^{page note 157 b} “And this indeed was the constant behaviour of the archbishop towards papists, and such as were his enemies. For which he was now, and at other times, taxed by men of hotter spirits: but his opinion was, that clemency and goodness, as it was more agreeable to the Gospel, which he laboured to adorn, so was more likely to obtain the ends he desired than rigour and austerity.” Strype ( Memorials of Cranmer, p. 170.)

This feature in Cranmer's character was not unnoticed by his contemporaries, “So that on a time I do remember that dr. Hethe, late archbishop of York, partly misliking this his over-much lenity by him used, said unto him, ‘My lord, I now know how to win all things at your hand well enough.’ ‘How so?’ quoth my lord. ‘Marry,’ saith dr. Hethe, ‘I perceive that I must first attempt to do unto you some notable displeasure; and then by a little relenting obtain of you what I can desire.’ Whereat my lord bit his lip, as his manner was when he was moved, and said, Yon say well; but yet you may be deceived.” See Ralph Morice's character of Cranmer, in a subsequent page.

^{page note 158 a} The fame of these roués of the days of Henry VIII. is perpetuated only by the writer of the text, with some exceptions. “Busking Palmer,” we learn from one of Stowe's Summaries (in which that nickname is mentioned), was the same person as sir Thomas Palmer, who was beheaded with the duke of Northumberland on the 22d August, 1553. See Machyn's Diary, p. 332, and the Life of Lord Grey of Wilton, p. 3. He had also the sobriquet of “long Palmer,” as Foxe mentions when describing the persecutions in Calais in 1541.

^{page note 158 b} A person now unknown: Strype, Eccl. Memorials, iii. 204, has mixed up his name with the next, reading “lusty young Raulf Bagenal.”

^{page note 158 c} Afterwards sir Ralph Bagenal : see a subsequent page of this volume.

^{page note 158 d} The name of sir Miles Partridge surpasses those of his fellows in the annals of gambling, as having played with king Henry for the heavy stake of the clock-tower of St. Paul's, which he won, and afterwards destroyed. He came to an untimely fate in 1551–2, when he was hung as one of the active partisans of the duke of Somerset : see Machyn, p. 15.

^{page note 158 e} John Hooper, bishop of Gloucester and Worcester.

^{page note 159 a} i. e. calculator of nativities, “currying favour” would have answered, courting or procuring it (or, as Skinner did, querir faveur); but these would have been mere guesses, giving the general sense of the phrase, but not its derivation. To curry is to do the work of a currier, one who converts the skins of animals, coria, into leather (from the verb corrado); and next, in a secondary sense, the term is applied to the cleansing and dressing of the skins of living animals, which we now generally call grooming. This leads us to the meaning of “favelle;” it is one of the names formerly given to horses, descriptive of their colour, as Bayard, Blanchard, and Lyard were to brown, white, or grey. So, Fauvell was a bright yellowish colour, (diminutive of fulvus, tawny,) apparently the opposite of Sorell, which was dark. According to the chronicle of Robert of Brunne, one of Richard the First's horses was so called :

“Sithen at Japhet [Jaffa] was slayn fauvelle his stede,” which in Richardson's Dictionary is misprinted fanvell. The operation of currying is grateful to a horse, and he is well pleased if he is thoroughly curried both on “back and side.” In modern orthography therefore the old couplet runs—

He that would in Court abide

Must curry Fauvell back and side.

It is obvious then (as Mr. Douce remarks, in his Illustrations of Shakspeare, 1807, i. 474,) that the phrase to curry favell was a metaphorical expression adopted from the stable. It occurs in the old story “How a merchande dyd hys wyfe betray,” and in Chaucer, and also in a passage of Udal quoted by Mr. Richardson : Shakspere in his Henry IV. Part II. writes curry alone—” I would curry with master Shallow.” The only place in which a proverbial distich resembling that in the text (but not exactly the same) has been found is Taverner's “Proverbes or Adagies gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus, 1569,” 18mo. f. 44 : “He that will in court dwell must needes currie fabel;” but Taverner was not aware of its origin, for he says, “Ye shal understand that fabel is an olde Englishe worde, and signified as much as favour doth now a dayes.” This was not the fact: for favel is by Piers Plouhman used for deceit, from the French favele, fabula. Douce has noticed that the corruption from favell to favour, in the phrase “curry favell,” occurs in Forrest's Isocrates, 1580 : to which we may now add an earlier example from the reply to Thomas Thaekham, of which great part is printed in the present volume, and which was written about 1571: “specially when you (beyng skolemaster there) coulde so connyngly dissemble and currye favour with the papistes.” (MS. Harl. 425, f. 48.)

^{page note 160 a} This was an ancient chapel in the parish of Stepney, erected in the reign of Edward III., pursuant to a licence granted by bishop Baldock in 1311. It was made a parish church in the year 1719.

^{page note 160 b} The pix.

^{page note 160 c} John Tawe was nominated Autumn reader at the Inner Temple 33 Hen. VIII. but did not read on account of the plague. He was Lent reader in 1 Edw. VI. and treasurer of the house 6 Edw. VI. and 1 Mary.

^{page note 161 a} Foxe, in his chapter on God's punishment upon persecutors, states how “Dale the promoter was eaten into his body with lice, and so died, as is well known of many, and confessed also by his fellow John Avales, before credible witnesse.” “Likewise the wretched end of Beard the promoter,” which is not there further described; but it will be found related in the story of Thomas Mowntayne, hereafter printed.

^{page note 161 b} Sir Humphrey Radclyffe was the third son of Robert earl of Sussex by his second wife lady Margaret Stanley ; and brother to Henry earl of Sussex, the captain of the band of pensioners. (p. 139.) From his marriage with Isabella, daughter and heiress of Edmund Hervey esquire, he was seated at Elstow in Bedfordshire ; where, in the church, are their effigies, as described in the Gentleman's Magazine 1826, ii. 106. Sir Humphrey was installed at Windsor April 19, 1558, as proxy for William lord Grey of Wilton, then elected knight of the Garter. He died in 1566. He was the father of Edward the last earl of his family, who died in 1641.

^{page note 162 a} John Norris esquire. He and William Rainsford were the two gentlemen ushers who represented the dukes of Normandy and Guienne at the coronation of Edward VI. Though treated somewhat contemptuously by Underhill, he was a person of importance, and one of a family connected during many generations with the court, and allied to several families of the peerage : see the pedigree of Norris in Lipscombe's Buckinghamshire, vol. i. p. 233. He was elder brother to Henry Norris, beheaded in 1536 for the matter of Anne Boleyne: whose son was summoned to parliament by Elizabeth, and his grandson became earl of Berkshire. After the accession of Mary, sir Philip Hoby, who had held the office of usher of the Garter, or black rod, during the reign of Edward VI., resigned it for the purpose that it might be restored to the family of Norris, and by letters patent dated 1 May 1554, (which are printed in Rymer's Fœdera, xv. 386,) it was conferred on John Norres, one of the gentlemen ushers of the queen's privy chamber, and on William Norres, his son and heir apparent, or the survivor. John Norris died Oct. 21, 1564, having married Elizabeth, sister to Edmund lord Bray.

^{page note 162 b} cupboard.

^{page note 163 a} Clement Throckmorton esquire, of Haseley in Warwickshire, was the third son of sir George Throckmorton of Coughton, by Katharine daughter of Nicholas lord Vaux: and married Katharine, daughter of sir Edward Neville, second son of the lord Abergavenny. (Wotton's English Baronetage, 1741, ii. 357.) In early life he served at Boulogne, and was cupbearer to queen Katharine Parr. He was M.P. for West Looe in 1571, and died in 1574. In 1565 mr. Clement Throckmorton charitably undertook to provide for the elder son of Thomas Hawkes when that martyr was sentenced to be burned at Coggeshall: see the letters of Hawkes to his wife and to master Clement Throckmorton printed by Foxe. His eldest son and heir Job was the supposed author of Martin Mar-Prelate ; and was father of sir Clement Throckmorton, of Haseley, an eloquent speaker in the parliaments of the next century, in which he sat for the county of Warwick.

^{page note 163 b} George Ferrers, M.P. for Plymouth in 1542, a poet and an historian. For his biography see Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, (by Bliss,) i. 443.; the notes to Machyn's Diary, p. 327; and those to the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 188.

^{page note 163 c} Henry Grey, the father of the lady Jane. He was captured in his park of Astley near Coventry, and the particulars are given in Appendix VII. to the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary.

^{page note 163 d} Brother to Thomas fourth duke of Norfolk ; created lord Howard of Effingham 10 March 1553–4, lord chamberlain 1554, and lord admiral 1557 ; died 1573.

^{page note 163 e} Henry Peckham was the son of sir Edmund Peckham, who had been cofferer of the household to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. and was treasurer of the mint to Mary and Elizabeth. The son, in the year 1563, joined in the conspiracy of Henry Dudley, of which a full account has been presented to the Camden Society by Mr. Bruce in his Verney Papers, pp. 59 et seq. and was hung and beheaded on Tower-hill, together with John Daniell, on the 8th of July in that year. (Stowe's Chronicle, and Machyn's Diary, p. 109.) He appears to have well deserved his fate, having behaved treacherously to his friends. He had sat in the late parliament for Chipping Wycombe.

^{page note 164 a} First at Christmas 1551–2, and again in 1552–3, as described with great delight by Machyn in his Diary, pp. 13, 28, 29 : see also, for various particulars, Kempe's Loseley Manuscripts, 1835, 8vo., and The Literary Remains of King Edward VI. p. 381.

^{page note 165 a} On Wednesday the 7th Feb. 1553–4, being Ash Wednesday,—having marched forward from Southwark the day before, and crossed the Thames at Kingston.

^{page note 165 b} Being lord chamberlain and constable of the Tower. See before, p. 139.

^{page note 165 c} William Knevett was one of the principal captains of the rebels: but two others of the family, Thomas and Anthony, were also among those committed to the Tower. See the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 51, 52, 53. At the end of the following February Anthony and William were sent into Kent for execution, (ibid. p. 66.)

^{page note 165 d} “Thomas Cobhani, the lord Cobham's son.” (ibid. pp. 51, 52.) His brothers sir William and George were also committed to the Tower, and all three tried in the following February, (ibid. p. 62.) Thomas was condemned to death. The two latter were acquitted, or pardoned; and released, with their father lord Cobham, on the 24th of March, (ibid. p. 71, and Machyn, p. 58.) The particulars of lord Cobham's committal to the Tower on the 2nd of February are given in the same Chronicle, at p. 41.

^{page note 166 a} The rebels, on their way from Knightsbridge, were first attacked near St. James's palace, by the earl of Pembroke's horsemen ; when some of them “which escaped the charge, passed by the backeside of Saint James towardes Westmynster, and from thence to the courte, and finding the gates shut agaynst them, stayed there a while, and shotte off many arrowes into the wyndowes and over into the gardeyne, neverthelesse without any hurt that was knowne. Whereupon the sayde rebelles, over whom one Knevett was captaine, pereeyving themselves to be too fewe to doe any great feate there, departed from thence to followe Wyat, who was gone before towardes London.” (Narrative by George Ferrers, included in Grafton's Chronicle, and copied by Holinshed.) Proctor, who published a separate narrative of Wjat's rebellion, erroneously imagined that the attack came from Charing cross: see a note on this point in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 131. The writer of that chronicle states (p. 48) that the party who turned down towards Westminster were commanded by “Cutbart Vaughan and about ij auncyentes.”

^{page note 166 b} These judges were those of the common pleas. “This daye the judges in the common place at Westminster satte in armoure.” (Proctor.) “Yea, this day, and other dayes, (says Stowe,) the justices, Serjeants at the law, and other lawyers in Westminster hall pleaded in harnesse.” Proctor adds that while the court gates were open, “one maister Nicolas Rockewod, being a gentleman of Lyncolnes inn, and in armour at the said court gate, was shotte through hys nose with an arrowe by the rebels. For the comminge of the said rebels was not loked for that way.” See also the anecdote of Ralph Rokeby Serjeant at law, pleading with a good coate-armour under his robes and playing a good part with his bow and a sheaf of arrows, quoted in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 40 ; also that (p. 41) of doctor Weston, who the same morning (being Ash Wednesday) sang mass before the queen “in harnesse under his vestments.”

^{page note 166 c} Brigandines were jackets of quilted leather, covered with iron plates.

^{page note 166 d} MS. hold.

^{page note 167 a} The morion was a scull-cap or hat of steel with a ridge on its top. See some representations in Meyrick's Ancient Arms and Armour, pi. lxviii., and Fosbroke's Encyclopedia of Antiquities, plate of Armour and Arms.

^{page note 167 b} Of the queen's personal demeanour on this alarming occasion see further particulars in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 48, 49, 133, 188.

^{page note 167 c} Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Bruton, co. Somerset, was standard-bearer (vexillifer) to Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, according to the family pedigree. His name occurs as one of the knights of the king's privy chamber who signed the settlement of the crown on the lady Jane in 1553 (see Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 100). There was, however, at this time, besides sir Maurice of Bruton, another sir Maurice, the younger son of Thomas tenth lord Berkeley, and the uncle of Henry at this time the baron, and a minor. (Dugdale, Baronage, i. 368.)

^{page note 168 a} See the particulars of his surrender minutely described in The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 50.

^{page note 168 b} “And another toke Thomas Cobham, and [a third] William Knevet, and so caryed them behind theym upon their horses to the courte.” (Ibid.)

^{page note 168 c} i. e, the gentlemen pensioners.

^{page note 168 d} See the list of “The names of certaine lordes and gentlemen that were with hir majesties power against the rebelles,” endorsed “to be rewardyd,” printed from a MS. in the State-paper office, at the close of the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 187. It may be remarked on that document that by “My lord Marshall” is meant lord Clinton, who was “Marshall of the field”or “of the camp” at Wyat's attack ; and by “My lord lieutenaunt” (p. 188) the earl of Pembroke, who had the chief command of the queen's forces.

^{page note 168 e} Gardiner, now the queen's chief minister.

^{page note 169 a} John Calveley, one of the younger sons of sir George Calveley, of Lea in Cheshire, by Elizabeth daughter of sir Piers Dutton, is in the family pedigree styled “valet to queen Mary.” His elder brother sir Hugh was knighted at Leith in 1543. (Ormerod's History of Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 419.)

^{page note 170 a} At Winchester, on the 25th July 1554.

^{page note 170 b} “At the banquet, the earl of Arundel presented the ewer, the marquess of Winchester the napkin ; none being seated except the king and queen ; but, as to the rest of the entertainment, it was more after the English than the Spanish fashion. The dinner lasted till six in the evening, after which there was store of music ; and before nine all had already retired.” Narrative from the archives of Louvaine, in Tytler's Edward VI. and Mary, ii. 432.

^{page note 170 c} “And thus, shortly to conclude, there was for certain daies after this moste noble manage such triumphing, bankating, singing, masking, and daunsing, as was never in Englande heretofore, by the reporte of all men. Wherfore, to see the kinges magestie and the quene sitting under the cloth of estate, in the hall where they dyned, and also in the chamber of presence at dansing tyme, where both their magesties dansed, and also to behold the dukes and noblemen of Spain daunse with the faire ladyes and the moste buetii'ull nimphes of England, it should seme to him that never did see suche, to be an other worlde.” John Elder's Letter sent in to Scotlande to the bishop of Caithness, reprinted in the appendix to The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 143. Mary had been always fond of dancing, and her brother king Edward once wrote to her to remonstrate with her on that score. (See Halliwell's Royal Letters, 1846, ii. 5 ; also Sir Fred. Madden's memoir of her prefixed to her Privy Purse Expenses.)

^{page note 170 d} John second lord Bray, who succeeded his father in 1539, had been lieutenant of the gentlemen pensioners before sir Humphrey Radclyffe, and was characterized as “a paragon in court, and of sweet entertainment.” But, though he shone in the court of Mary, he did not agree in her policy, and in 1556 he suffered imprisonment in the Fleet and in the Tower, on suspicion of connection with the conspiracy of Henry Dudley, in which his nephews Edward and Francis Verney were involved. The particulars of this trouble and his subsequent history until his early death in 1557 have been presented in detail to the Caraden Society by Mr. Bruce in the Verney Papers, pp. 52, 56, 73, 77.

^{page note 171 a} Anne his fifth daughter, born the 4th of January 1554, and Edward his second son, born the 10th of February 1555. (See p. 135.)

^{page note 171 b} See before, p. 161.

^{page note 171 c} Luke Shepherd : see note in the Appendix

^{page note 172 a} Uncle to the celebrated sir Thomas Gresham. His mayoralty was in 1547–8. See memoirs of him in Burgon's Life of Gresham, pp. 11–21. Some particulars regarding him will be found in the notes to Maehyn's Diary, p. 353 ; and as to his children in The To. pographer and Genealogist, 1853, ii. 512.

^{page note 172 b} In the nave of Saint Paul's cathedral, then a place of general concourse.

^{page note 173 a} “In the mean season, bicause ther was a rumour that I was dead, I passed thorowgh London,” writes king Edward in his Journal. “Item the xxiij. day of the same monyth (July 1549) the kynges grace came from the dewke of Suffolkes place in Sothwarke thorrow London, and soo to Whytte hall, goodly, with a goodly company.” Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, p. 60.

^{page note 173 b} Syon house, then belonging to the duke of Somerset.

^{page note 173 c} Some of these Underhill kept in his possession, and copies of them will be found in the Appendix, together with other notices of Allen.

^{page note 173 d} By the statute 1 Edw. VI. cap. 12, the act of 33 Henry VIII. cap. 8 (a copy of which will be found in the Appendix) was repealed, as being one of those constituting new felonies since the 1 Hen. VIII. See the Index to the Statutes of the Realm, tit. Witchcraft.

^{page note 173 e} Sir John Markham was lieutenant of the Tower during the protectorate of the duke of Somerset, and was discharged from his office at the end of October 1551, because, during the duke's imprisonment, he had suffered him to walk abroad, and certain letters to be sent and answered, without making the council privy, as is recorded by king Edward in his Journal: see The Literary Remains of King Edward VI. pp. 233, 238, 328. He was head of the family seated at Cotham in Nottinghamshire, and his biography will be found in the History of the Markham Family, by the Rev. David Frederick Markham, 1854, 8vo. p. 19. See also a letter of archbishop Cranmer to Cromwell in 1537, highly commending sir John Markham both as an old soldier and as a favourer of God's word : Jenkyns's Remains of Cranmer, i. 224.

^{page note 174 a} The remainder of the MS. is now bound in the MS. Harl. 424, at f. 8.

^{page note 174 b} —“to provoke any person to unlawful love” was one of the objects of witchcraft enumerated in the Act 33 Hen. VIII. cap. 12, which will be found in the Appendix.

^{page note 174 c} See Allen's paper, No. 3, in the Appendix.

^{page note 174 d} The sorcerers were used to “take upon them to tell or declare where goodes stollen or lost shall become.” (Act 33 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.) This was a branch of the “science” which formed too frequent a source of profit to be hastily relinquished. It was nourishing a century later, and is not yet entirely extinct. The famous Richard Baxter, in “The Certainty of the World of Spirits fully evinced, 1691,” inquires “To what sort shall we rank those that tell men of things stolen and lost, and that shew men the face of a thief in a glass, and cause the goods to be brought back, who are commonly called white witchest We have had so many credible reports of such, as alloweth not reason to doubt of it.” And he then proceeds to tell some stories of Hodges, one of these “white witches,” whom he remembered, practising at Sedgley. See Allen's papers, Nos. 1 and 2.

^{page note 174 e} In the time of king Edward we read that “Dicing and carding are forbidden, but dicing and carding-houses are upholden. Some in their own houses, and in the king's majesty's court, (God save his noble grace, and grant that virtue and knowledge may meet in his royal heart!) give ensample to his subjects to break his statutes and laws. Prisons in London, where men lie for debt, be dicing-houses ; places of correction and punishment be dens and schools of unthriftiness,” “The Image of God, or laie man's booke,” 1550. Hutchinson's Works, (Parker Society,) p. 7.

^{page note 175 a} This is probably the true name, and not Gaseoigne. One of the knights of the Bath made at the coronation of queen Mary was sir Henry Gaston.

^{page note 175 b} Strype, in his Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. iii., at the end of Chapter VI. has printed another prayer by Underbill, “that he used in queen Mary's days against the papists.” As I have not found the original of this, I do not reprint it.