the state of trade and make purchases accordingly, assisted by me;
while A'Dale had a similar commission from his employer. We were thus
able to go about through the town and to visit the houses of the
settlers for the purpose of examining the produce of their looms. Some
we found employed in the manufacture of lutestrings, brocades,
paduasoys, tabinets, and velvets, while a considerable number were
engaged in making cutlery, knives, daggers, swords, lancets and other
articles for the use of surgeons, as also clocks and watches.
Lace-making we also found carried on extensively.

Still during our search we had not discovered the child of the martyred
lady. At last one day we entered a humble cottage where a man was
seated at a loom. His back was turned towards us. Even to my eye he
did not appear to be as expert as others we had visited. Still he
worked on diligently; the material he was producing being of a somewhat
rough character, Brocktrop turned away, seeing that the stuff would not
suit his purpose, when I apologised to the workman for intruding: on
him. He turned round as I did so, and I saw a countenance with the
features of which I was acquainted. Brocktrop and A'Dale had just gone
out of the door. The workman rose.

"I would speak with you," he said. "Are those to be trusted?"

"Yes, sir, I am sure they are," I answered; and I at once saw that the
person speaking to me was he whom I had first known as Father Overton.

He greeted me cordially, and so I ran out and begged Brocktrop and
A'Dale to wait for me for a few minutes.

"I have been anxious to hear of you since we parted at Antwerp," I said.
"John Foxe, too, in his letters has inquired of you, and we feared that
you had fallen into evil plight."

"I left Antwerp secretly," he answered, "for I was in danger. Besides,
I had a longing to return to England, first to minister to these poor
refugees who had been driven by persecution from their native land, and
also to spread the truth among my own countrymen. Having learned the
art of weaving, I have remained here for some time in disguise; though I
believe I am already suspected, and perhaps may again have to seek for
safety in flight--though ready, if needs be, to suffer as a martyr for
the truth."

I replied that I hoped he would yet escape till better times, which
might come, seeing that there was no prospect of the Queen's Majesty
having a son to succeed her. I then told him of the hap