THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 407 



She dyed 94 June, An. D. +. 1603 ; 

 and he the 6th day of Oct. next after 



Their frugality in provision for their children, 

 their charitable deposition to relieve the needy 

 and great bounty in hospitality was a pleasing 

 spectacle to their neigbours, and may be an al- 

 luring precedent to their posierity, as they lived 

 to the liking, and with the love of mortal men, so 

 they dyed in the true service and love of the 

 immortal God -f- The poore, their tenants, 

 neighbours, will for a time bewaile the want of 

 them ; but the angells of Heaven and Saints of 

 God will perpetually rejoice in the company of 

 them ; for God they feared, God they served. 

 God they loved, and to God they dyed. Their 

 warfare in God's Church militant on earth hath 

 been short, but their glory in His Church Tri- 

 umphant in heaven will be eternal." — Antiqui- 

 ties of Warwickshire, illustration by William 

 Dugdale, London, MDCLVI. 



Thomas Underhill, the eldest son of John, of Huningham, married 

 Anne, daughter of Robt. Winter," of Hardington County, Worcester and 

 of Willey County, Warwick ; their eldest son was Edward Underhill of 

 Huningham, which he sold in 1545. He was distinguished by the title 

 of the " Hot Gospeller," and exchanged the life of a country gentleman 

 for that of a soldier and courtier. In 1543 he served as a man-at-arms 

 under Sir Richard Crumwell, captain of the horsemen in the Contingent, 

 sent to assist the Emperor at the siege of Landrevi in Hanault, and in 

 the following year when King Henry went to Boulogne, Sir Richard pro- 

 cured for Underhill a nomination among the men-at-arms who were em- 

 bodied to attend upon his Majesty's person being a band of two hundred 

 attired in a uniform of red and yellow damask with the bards of their 

 horses and their plumes and feathers of the same colors. 



At the revival of the band of gentlemen pensioners in 1539 Edward 

 Underhill was appointed one of its first members. " In the year 1549 

 he, a second time, went to France on military service accompanying the 

 army of six thousand men sent under the command of the Earl of Hunt- 

 ingdon to check the French who were then aiming at the recapture of 

 Boulogne. On this expedition, Underhill served as comptroller of the 

 ordnance. His subsequent history, except as connected with the religious 

 persecution of the times in which he lived, is merely that of domestic 

 life." 6 



"In 1645 he married Joan, daughter of Thomas Perryns, the daugh- 



a Robt. Winter upon partition of that inheritance had, it seems, the inanorof Huningham, 

 but conveyed the same to John Underhill. — Dugdale's War. 

 b Narratives of the Reformatioa printed by Camden Society, 18C0, p. 132. 



