The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat; Written by a Resident in the Tower of L

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 128 APPENDIX VIII. The Watch At The Court And In The City, On The Eve Of Wyat's Attack. (Extracted from MS. Hurl. 425, p. 94.) Edward Underhyll, the hot Gospeller, ?we have his own authority that this designation was given him by some who were inclined to ridicule his Protestant zeal, ?has passed into a character of some historical repute in the pages of Strype, Strickland, and Ainsworth, though he owes the preservation of his name from entire oblivion to a single document, a sort of auto-biographical narrative of his persecutions and difficulties. Miss Strickland, who incorrectly terms his narrative a diary, has expressed an earnest wish that the whole of this most precious document were recoverable. To those who have joined her in that wish it may be some satisfaction to know that it is safe in the Harleian Collection. It may claim attention from the conductors of the new edition of the works of Strype, now in progress, though that historian has already published the substance of its best portions. The following passage, which graphically describes the state of alarm, both at the court and in the city, during Wyat's rebellion, will be found interesting. The night adventure at Ludgate and Newgate is passed over by Strype; and the latter part, which tells of the skirmishing near the palace, has been widely misunderstood by Miss Strickland. Sir Homffrey Rattclyffe was the levetenauntt off the pencyonars, and alwayes favored the Gospelle, by whose meanes I hadd my wagis stylle payde me. When Wyatt was cume into Southwarke, the pencyonars weare com- maunded to wache in armoure thatt nyght at the cpurte, whiche I hearynge off, thought it best in lyke suerte to be there, least by my absens I myght have sume qiiarell piken unto me, or att the least be strekon off ...