y of Wynscote." At the sorrowful time of Lord Lisle's
arrest, his friend Palmer was jousting at Court. Edward Underhill names
him as one of those "companions" with whom he was "conversant a while,
until I fell to reading the Scriptures and following the preachers." In
the army of Boulogne, 1544, Palmer was one of the captains of the
infantry, and was taken prisoner by the French. We meet with him next,
October 7, 1551, when "Sir Thomas Paulmer" writes Edward the Sixth (and
another hand has interlined, "Hating the Duke and hated of him"), "came
to the Duke of Northumberland to deliver him his cheine... whereupon, in
my Lord's garden, he declared a conspiracy," evolved out of his inner
consciousness, of which Somerset was the supposed inventor and real
victim. On the 16th, conspirators and informer were impartially
arrested, Palmer "on the terrace walking there." To Somerset, Palmer
had denied every word he had uttered, when the Duke sent for him and
charged him with the uttering: on the trial he was the principal
witness, though the Duke denied his accusation, and "declared all the
ill he could devise of Palmer." It was not necessary to "devise" much.
It was soon plain that Palmer's arrest was a mere farce. He was not
only released, but was appointed, March 4, 1552, one of the
commissioners to treat with Scotland. In 1553 he proved true to his
friend Northumberland, and shared his fate. Two versions of his dying
speech are given, in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pages
22-24.

Lisle Papers, two, 125; nine, 10; seventeen, 94;--Cott. Ms., Nero, c.
ten, 40, 41, 44-46, 51;--Harl. Mss., 69, folio 50; 283, folio 3; 425,
folio 93;--Rutland Papers, page 102.

PEDIGREES.

The story will be scarcely intelligible without some elucidation of the
pedigrees of the three families whose members are constantly meeting the
reader--Barry, Basset, and Lisle. I have tried to put them into a form
at once as short and as easy of reference as possible.

_Barry of Wynscote_.--Richard Barry, descended from the Lords Barry of
Ireland, died June 2, 1462. _His son_:--John, died September 16, 1510.
_His son_;--John, born 1473, died July 25, 1538: married Anne, daughter
of Patrick Bellewe of Aldervescot, and Anne Dennis of Oxleigh, county
Devon (and half-sister of Anne and Margery Basset. See below). _His
issue_:--1. Henry, born 1514, died 1566; married Margaret, daughter of
Nicholas Specott (she died March 14, 1580) 2.