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Some Notice of William Herbert, 



flung" up his jewelled cap and tossed his purse among 1 the crowd. 1 

 Pembroke was one of the twelve mourners at the funeral of King 

 Edward, at Westminster, according to the ritual of the Church of 

 England; Mary having been with difficulty persuaded to abandon her 

 intention of having a mass for the dead celebrated there. The queen's 

 residence in the Tower had already become irksome to her as she 

 was still surrounded by thousands of armed men, the levies of Derby 

 and Hastings, and the retainers of Pembroke, Arundell, and Bedford. 

 Pembroke absented himself from the presence ; he was required to 

 return and to reduce the number of his followers. Lord Derby 

 complained to Renard, the envoy of the Emperor Charles V., that 

 those who had saved her crown were treated with neglect, while 

 men like Arundell, Pembroke, and Bedford, who had been parties 

 to the treasons against her, remained in power. Lord Russell was 

 soon after placed under arrest, Pembroke and Winchester were 

 ordered to keep their houses, and the court was distracted with sus- 

 picion, discord, and uncertainty. 



The Queen restored the Roman ritual without delay, but some 

 precautions were necessary. The late king had been buried on 

 August 8th. We learn from Foxe, that on Sunday, August 20th, 

 Dr. Watson, the Bishop of Winchester's chaplain, preached at TauFs 

 Cross, at whose sermon were present the Marquis of Winchester, 

 Pembroke, Bedford, and Rich ; from a contemporary letter we also 

 learn that "thear was 120 of the garde that stoode round aboute 

 the crosse with their halberds to gard the preacher and to apprehend 

 them that would stuire." Pembroke was also present at the 



1 Events passed rapidly in those days. Pembroke was godfather to a child of 

 Underbill's, the hot gospeller. The account of the christening is given by Strype 

 (Ecc. Mem., vol. 2, p. 180), " In the days of King Edward he [Underhill] was of 

 such good esteem and so well known and beloved by the nobility, that having a 

 son born during the short reign of Queen Jane, she was godmother, and named 

 him after her husband's name, Guildford ; Sir Nicholas Throgmorton's lady 

 being deputy, the Duke of Suffolk and the Earl of Pembroke godfathers. Im- 

 mediately after the christening was done, Queen Mary was proclaimed in 

 Cheapside, the deputy godmother returning to the Tower to wait upon her lady, 

 found the cloth of state taken down, and all things defaced belonging to Jane as 

 ^ueen, and she, as well as her mistress, made prisoners." 



