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had died on the previous day, at his house in London, to which he had been confined by order of the King. "An ill man and an unkindly," wrote Isoult in the diary she always kept, "specially unto them which loved the Gospel. But how those tidings taketh me back to the days that be over and gone! For the last time that ever I saw this man was that black third of March, the year of our Lord 1542, when the King that then was, sent him to bear his diamond and message unto my dear master [Lord Lisle] in the Tower. Can I ever forget that even? "Of this Thomas Wriothesley I dare say nothing. I would think rather of him whose voice I did hear last after his, in the commending of his blessed and gentle spirit into the hands of God. How many times sithence that day have I thanked God for him! Ay, Lord, we thank Thee for Thy saints, and for Thy care and guidance of them. For the longer I do live, the surer am I that Thy way Home is not only the right way, but for each of Thine, the only way. I take it, we shall not think of the thorns that tare us, nor shall we be ready for tears over the sharp stones that wounded us, in that day when I and my dear-loved Lord may sing to Thee together--`Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord God of truth!'" Mrs Underhill walked into the Lamb, one warm afternoon in the beginning of August, and remained to four-hours. And of course the conversation turned before long upon the Protestant controversy with Rome. In the Hot Gospeller's family, it rarely kept off that subject for many minutes together. "Mother!" said Kate, when she was gone, "what meaneth Mistress Underhill by confession? She said it was bad. But it is not bad, is it, for me to tell you and Father when I have done wrong?" "No, sweeting, neither to tell God," answered Isoult. "Mrs Underhill meant not that, but spake only of confession unto a priest." "Thou must know, Kate," explained Robin, "that some men will tell their sins unto any priest, in the stead of seeking forgiveness of God in their own chamber." "But what toucheth it the priest?" asked the child. "Why, never a whit," he answered. "If the man have stole from the priest," resumed she, "it were right he should tell him; like as I tell Father and Mother if I have done any wrong, because it is wrong to them. But if I had disobeyed Mother, what good were it that I should ask Mr Rose to forgive me? I should not have wronged him." "She hath a brave wit, met
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