In early life a great gamester and a notorious libertine, known as Long Palmer, on account of his height, and Busking Palmer--a term about equivalent to the modern "dandy." He generally signs his name as above, but upon one occasion, "Thomas de Palmer." He was at one time in the service of the Lord Privy Seal, Cromwell; and was one of the "gentlemen ushers daily wayters" at Court, before 1522; for three years he was knight porter at Calais. The part he took against the Gospellers during the Calais persecution is alluded to by Foxe (A. and M., five, 497, 505, 506, 520), and will be found fully detailed in my previous volume, "Isoult Barry of Wynscote." At the sorrowful time of Lord Lisle's arrest, his friend Palmer was jousting at Court. Edward Underhill names him as one of those "companions" with whom he was "conversant a while, until I fell to reading the Scriptures and following the preachers." In the army of Boulogne, 1544, Palmer was one of the captains of the infantry, and was taken prisoner by the French. We meet with him next, October 7, 1551, when "Sir Thomas Paulmer" writes Edward the Sixth (and another hand has interlined, "Hating the Duke and hated of him"), "came to the Duke of Northumberland to deliver him his cheine... whereupon, in my Lord's garden, he declared a conspiracy," evolved out of his inner consciousness, of which Somerset was the supposed inventor and real victim. On the 16th, conspirators and informer were impartially arrested, Palmer "on the terrace walking there." To Somerset, Palmer had denied every word he had uttered, when the Duke sent for him and charged him with the uttering: on the trial he was the principal witness, though the Duke denied his accusation, and "declared all the ill he could devise of Palmer." It was not necessary to "devise" much. It was soon plain that Palmer's arrest was a mere farce. He was not only released, but was appointed, March 4, 1552, one of the commissioners to treat with Scotland. In 1553 he proved true to his friend Northumberland, and shared his fate. Two versions of his dying speech are given, in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pages 22-24. Lisle Papers, two, 125; nine, 10; seventeen, 94;--Cott. Ms., Nero, c. ten, 40, 41, 44-46, 51;--Harl. Mss., 69, folio 50; 283, folio 3; 425, folio 93;--Rutland Papers, page 102. PEDIGREES. The story will be scarcely intelligible without some elucidation of the pedigrees of the three families whose members are constantly meeting the reader--Barry, Basset, and Lisle. I have tried to put them into a form at once as short and as easy of reference as possible.