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unsafe for those who adhered to the house of Lancaster to 

 remain in public, the immediate descendant of Margaret, 

 in that branch which is associated with the aged yew, 

 withdrew from his paternal estate and settled in Glouces- 

 tershire, where he assumed the name of Kitchen. He 

 married Alicia, daughter and sole heiress of Hunt of 

 Hunt's Court, in Nibley, by whom he acquired that estate, 

 and became the grandfather of William Tyndale, who is 

 justly termed the apostle of the English Reformation. 



As the gathering mists of a hot summer evening, when 

 the sun is set, and dew begins to fall, veil the bold and 

 prominent landscape, so the obscurity of time has settled 

 on the Tyndale family. The outlines yet remain : the 

 establishment of Hugh Tyndale in Gloucestershire, 

 during the troubles of York and Lancaster, his marriage 

 with Alicia, and the birth of his three grandsons, John, 

 William, and Thomas, are events well known ; but whether 

 Tyndale suffered a long imprisonment in the castle of 

 Vilvorde, near Louvain in Flanders, during the lifetime 

 of his parents ; whether days of sorrow and nights of 

 weariness befell them on his account ; or whether they 

 were first laid to rest in Nibley churchyard, near which 

 their mansion stood, is entirely unknown. Be this as it 

 may, his brother Thomas had much to suffer on his account. 

 He was abjured for receiving letters, and for remitting 

 him five marks during his residence in Flanders. 



Time went on, and religious animosities gradually 

 subsided ;, a descendant of Hugh Tyndale purchased 



