so
with him. He being my very friend, desired the
sheriff and his company to stay without for
frighting of my wife, and he would go fetch me unto
him; who knocked at the door, saying, he must speak
with me. I, lying so near that I might hear him,
called unto him, willing him to come unto me, for
that he was always my very friend and earnest in
the gospel, who declared unto me that the sheriff
and a great company was sent for me. Whereupon I
rose and made me ready to come unto him.

"Sir, said he, I have commandment from the council
to apprehend you and bring you unto them.

"Why, said I, it is now ten of the clock at night;
you cannot now carry me unto them.

"No, sir, said he, you shall go with me to my house
in London, where you shall have a bed, and
to-morrow I will bring you unto them in the Tower.

"In the name of God, quoth I, and so went with him,
requiring him if I might understand the cause. He
said he knew none."

Underhill, however, conjectured that it was the
ballad. He "was nothing dismayed;" and in the
morning went readily to the Tower, where he waited
in the presence chamber talking to the pensioners.

Sir Edward Hastings passed through, and as he saw
him, "frowned earnestly." "Are you come?" said
Hastings, "we will talk with you ere you part, I
warrant you." They were old acquaintances.
Underhill had been controller of the ordnance at
Calais when Lord Huntingdon was in command there.
The earl being in bad health, his brother Sir
Edward was with him, assisting in the duties of the
office; and Underhill, being able to play and sing,
had been a frequent visitor at the Government
House. The earl, moreover, "took great delight to
hear him reason" with Sir Edward, on points of
controversy--chiefly on the real prese