40S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



ter of a citizen of London, of an obscure and unknown family;"" by 

 her he had issue four sons and seven daughters. Guilford the eldest son, 

 (godson to Queen Jane and named after her husband, the Lord Guil- 

 ford Dudley, brother of Robert Dudley, Earl of Pcncstor,) was born 

 3d July, 1553- and died young. Edward, the second son and heir, was 

 born the 10th of February, 1555; John, the third son is said to have 

 died young in 1556^ while Henry, the fourth son, was born the 6th of 

 September. 1561. The daughters were, first, Anne, born on St. John's 

 day, on Christmas, 1548; second, Christian, born 16th September, 1548; 

 third, Elinor, born 10th of November, 1549; fourth, Rachel, born the 

 4th February, 1551; fifth, Unyca, born on Palm Sunday, April 10th, 

 1552; sixth, Anne, born the 4th of January, 1554; and seventh, Pru- 

 dence, born 6th cf September, 1561. 



"On the 13th of April, 1562, was buried at St. Botulphi without Aid- 

 gate, London, Mistress Underhill, a dozen of scucheons of arms, and 

 there did preach for her one whose name is not recorded. " c 



"Edward Underhill is styled of Bathkington. This not improbably 

 Bagginton near Coventry, to which neighborhood he removed, according 

 to his own account in the "autobiographical anecdotes."** He must 

 have died sometime between the years 1562 and 1577, as he was still 

 living at the time of his wife's decease, and likewise when the anecdotes 

 were written in 1561, and moreover his name does not occur among the 

 list of residents in Warwickshire taken during the latter year. "It is a 

 little remarkable that the once wide spreading branches of the Underhill 

 family are no longer to be found among the gentry of Warwickshire." 



Tradition seems to point to a son of Edward Underhill, the " Hot 

 Gospeller," who was doubtless Edward, the second son, before men- 

 tioned as having, like his father, embraced the life of a soldier and a 

 courtier. This individual, a youth of about twenty, who must have re- 

 sided with his father, at Bagginton, (a town belonging to the Earl of 

 Leicester and about three miles from Kenilworth), probably like many 

 of the neighboring squires and their sons, helped to swell the pomp of 

 Leicester, in the capacity of servant or page, during Queen Elizabeth's 

 visit to the castle of Kenilworth, on the 19th of July, 1575 ; an event 

 which his son, the famous Capt. John Underhill, was afterwards proud 

 to commemorate in the naming of his first purchase from the Matine- 

 cock Indians of Long Island in 1667, Kenilworth, or "commonly Kill- 



a Narrative;, of the Reformation print -i bj Cam* 1860, i>. 183. 



b How coald John the third i following year that his elder brother, Ed- 



ward, it Bald to have been bom : 

 <• Narratives of the Reformation, &c 

 d Narratives e>f the Reformation, 4e., by the CamUeu Syciety, pp. 132-133. 



