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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. 351 words

Edward, the second son and heir, was bom the loth of February, 1555; John, the third son is said to have died young in 1556,'' while Henry, the fourth son, was born the 6th of September, 1561. The daughters were, first, Anne, born on St. John's day, on Christmas, 1548; second. Christian, born i6th September, 1548; third, Ehnor, born loth of November, 1549; fourth, Rachel, bom the 4th February, 155 1 ; fifth, Unyca, born on Palm Sunday, April loth, 1552; sixth, Anne, born the 4th of January, 1554; and seventh, Prudence, born 6th of September, 156 1.

"On tlie 13th of April, 1562, was buried at St. Botulphi without Aidgate, London, iSIistress Underbill, a dozen of scucheons of arms, and there did preach for her one whose name is not recorded.""

"Edward Underbill is styled of Bathkington. This not improbably Bagginton near Coventr}', to which neighborhood he removed, according to his own account in the "autobiographical ancedotes."'' PTe must have died sometime between the years 1562 and 1577, as he was still living at the time of his wife's decease, and likewise when the anecdotes were ^vritten in 1561, and moreover his name does not occur among the hst of residents in Wanvickshire taken during the latter year. " It is a little remarkable that the once wide spreading branches of the Underbill family are no longer to be found among the gentry of Warwickshire."

Tradition seem.s to point to a son of Edward Underbill, the " Hot Gospeller," who was doubtless Edward, the second son, before mentioned as having, like his father, embraced the life of a soldier and a courtier. This individual, a youth of about twenty, v.-ho must have resided with his father, at Bagginton, (a town belonging to the Earl of Leicester and about three mil(-s from Kenilworth), probably like many of the neighboring squires and their sons, helped to swell the pomp of Leicester, in tlie capacity of servant or page, during Queen Ehzabeth's visit to the castle of Kenilworth, on the 19th of July, 1575 ; an event which his son, the famous Capt.