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. John Underbill, was after\vards- proud to commemorate in the naming of his first purchase from the Matinecock Indians of Long Island in 1667, Kenilworth, or "commonly Killa Narratives of the Reformation printed by Camflon Society, 1S60, p. 132. , b iloTV coniO John the third son have died the following year that his elder brothtr, Edward, i.T fcaid to hLLVo bei'n bum ?

e Narriitivca of the Keforraation, &c.

d Narratr.%9 of the Iteformation, ic, by the Camden Society, pp. 132-133.

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In-^worth."" Family tradition also associates him with the Earl of Leicester, as the bearer of dispatches from Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Leicester, then commanding the Englig.h forces in the Low Countries. This is somewhat confirmed by the following extract taken from a letter of" Mr. Suntsey Wals}Tigham to the Earl of Leicester, December, T5S5," •''My verie, good lord, your letters, sent by Mr. Henrie Astell and your servante Underbill, I havereceived,&c.'' Upon Leicesters recall and return to England, Underbill joined him ; and upon the Earl's decease, in Sept., 15SS, he attached himself to the fortunes of the Earl of Esse.x, the unfortunate successor to Leicester, in Queen Elizabeth's favor. He accompanied that gallant nobleman in his successful attack upon Cadiz, and shared his ill fortune in his fruitless' expedition against Tyrme, the rebel chief of the revolted clans of Ireland; and, returning with the Earl into England, by his attachment to that imprudent nobleman, sailing into the streets of London in the petty insurrection, which cost Essex his head, he was obliged to seek safety in Holland until the accession of King James, in 1603, when he applied for pardon and leave to return to his native country ; but no interest of friends, v/e are assured, could procure it.