good Lords. I have offended no laws. I have served
the Queen's Majesty's father and brother long time,
and spent and consumed my living therein. I went
not forth against her Majesty, notwithstanding I
was commanded."

He was interrupted by Arundel, who said that, "by
his writing," "he wished to set them all by the
ears." Hastings re-entered at the moment, telling
the council that they must repair to the queen, and
the Hot Gospeller was promptly ordered to Newgate.

The sheriff led him through the streets, his friend
Joy "following afar off, as Peter followed Christ."
He wrote a few words to his wife at the door of
Newgate, asking her to send him "his nightgown, his
Bible, and his lute;" and then entered the prison,
his life in which he goes on to describe.

In the centre of Newgate was "a great open hall."
"As soon as it was supper time," the board was
covered in the same hall. The keeper, whose name
was "Alisander," with his wife, came and sat down,
and half a dozen prisoners that were there for
felony, Underhill "being the first that for
religion was sent unto that prison." One of the
felons had served with him in France. "After
supper," the story continues, "this good fellow,
whose name was Bristow, procured me to have a bed
in his chamber, who could play well upon a rebeck.
He was a tall fellow, and after one of Queen Mary's
guard; yet a Protestant, which he kept secret, for
else, he said, he should not have found such favour
as he did at the keeper's hands and his wife's, for
to such as loved the gospel they were very cruel.
Well, said Underhill, I have sent for my Bible,
and, by God's grace, therein shall be my daily
exercise; I will not hide it from them. Sir, said
he, I am poor; but they will bear with you, for
they se