Their ■warfare in God's Church militant on earth hath been short, but their glory in His Church Triumphant in heaven will be eternal." -- Antiquities of Warwickshire, illustration by William Dugdale, London, MDCLVI.

Thomas Underbill, the eldest son of John, of Huningham, married .\nne, daughter of RobL Winter," of Hardington County, Worcester and of Willey County, Warwick ; their eldest son was Edward Underhill of Huningham, which he sold in 1545. He was distinguished by the title of the " Hot Gosjieller," and exchanged the Hfe of a country- gentleman for that of a soldier and courtier. In 1543 he served as a man-at-arms u.nder Sir Richard Cnimwell, captain of the horsemen in the Contingent, >cnt to assist the Emperor at the siege of Landrevi in Hanauit, and in t;-.c following year when King Henry went to Boulogne, Sir Richard procured for Underhill a nomination among the men-at-arms who were embodied to attend upon his Majesty's person being a band of two hundred attired in a uniform of red and yellow damask with the bards of their horses and their plumes and feathers of the same colors.

At the revival of the band of gentlemen pensioners in 1539 Edward Underhill was appointed one of its first members. " In the year 1549 lie, a second time, went to France on military service accompanpng the anny of six thousand men sent under the command of the Earl of Huntingdon to check the French who were then aiming at the recaptm-e of lioulogne. On this expedition, Underhill ser\-ed as comptroller of the ordnance. His subsequent history, except as connected with the religious jK^rsecution of the times in which he lived, is merely that of domestic iifc."^ i -■ /.i-,