Public works, L3200. Admiralty debt, L3923 4s.
Debts in the Office of the Chamber, L17,968. Debts
beyond the seas by Sir Thomas Gresham's particular
bill, L61,068. Alderney's debt, L3028. Scilly debt,
L3071.--_MS. Mary, Domestic_, vol. i. State Paper
Office.]

[Footnote 80: Note of things to be attended to:
_MS. Mary, Domestic_, vol. i.]

In happier times Mary might have been a worthy queen, and Gardiner an
illustrious minister;[81] but the fatal superstition {p.034} which
confounded religion with orthodox opinion was too strong for both of
them.

[Footnote 81: Another natural feature of these
curious days was the arrest of suspected persons;
one of whom, Edward Underhill, the Hot Gospeller,
has left behind him, in the account of his own
adventures, a very vivid picture of the time.
Underhill was a yeoman of the guard. He had seen
service in the French wars, but had been noted
chiefly for the zeal which he had shown in the late
reign in hunting Catholics into gaol. He had thus
worked his way into Court favour. During the brief
royalty of Jane Grey, his wife was confined. His
child was christened at the Tower church, and
Suffolk and Pembroke were "gossips," and Jane
herself was godmother. The day that Mary was
proclaimed, he put out a ballad, which, as he
expected, brought him into trouble. "The next day,"
he is telling his own story, "after the queen was
come to the Tower, the foresaid ballad came into
the hands of Secretary Bourne, who straightway made
inquiry for the said Edward, who dwelt in
Lymehurst; which he having intelligence of, sent
the sheriff of Middlesex with a company of bills
and glaives, who came into my house, being in my
bed, and my wife newly laid in childbed. The high
constable, whose name is Thomas Joy, dwelled at the
house next to me, whom the sheriff brought al