The Keeper and his wife offered me his own parlour, where he himself lay: which was furthest from noise; but it was near the kitchen, the savour of which I could not abide. Then did she lay me in a chamber, where she said never a prisoner lay, which was her store chamber, where all her plate and money lay; which was much. So much friendship I found at their hands, notwithstanding that they were spoken unto, by several Papists. And the Woodmongers of London, with whom I had had a great conflict for presenting them for false marking of billets; they required the Keeper to show me no favour, and to lay irons upon me, declaring that "I was the greatest heretic in London." My very friend Master RECORDE, Doctor of Physic, singularly seen in all the seven sciences, and a great Divine, visited me in the prison (to his great peril if it had been known, who long time was at charges and pains with me, gratis), and also after I was delivered. By means whereof, and the Providence of GOD, I received my health. * * * * * My wife then was churched before her time, to be a suitor for my deliverance; who put up a Supplication unto the Council declaring my extreme sickness and small cause to be committed unto so loathsome a gaol; requiring that I might be delivered, putting in sureties to be forthcoming to answer farther when I should be called. Which she obtained by the help of Master [afterwards Sir] JOHN THROGMORTON, being the Master of the Requests, and my countryman [_i.e., of Worcestershire_] and my kinsman. He, understanding who were my enemies, took a time in their absence, and obtained [_on 21st August,1553_] a letter to the Keeper, subscribed by the Earl of BEDFORD, the Earl of SUSSEX, [STEPHEN GARDINER the Bishop of] WINCHESTER, [Sir ROBERT] ROCHESTER [Comptroller of the Household], and [Sir EDWARD] WALDEGRAVE, to be delivered; putting in surety, according to the request of my wife's Supplication. With whom WINCHESTER talked, concerning the christening of her child at the church at the Tower Hill; and the gossips [_sponsors_], which were the Duke of SUFFOLK, the Earl of PEMBROKE, and the Lady JANE, then being Queen: with the which, he [_GARDINER_] was much offended. My Lady THROGMORTON, wife unto Sir NICHOLAS THROGMORTON, was the Queen's deputy; who named my son GUILDFORD after her [_the Queen's_] husband. Immediately after the christening was done [_on the 19th of July, 1553_], Queen MARY was proclaimed in Cheapside; and when my Lady THROGMORTON came into the Tower, the Cloth of Estate was taken down, and all things defaced. A sudden change! She would have gone forth again; but could not be suffered. But now again to my matter.