[Footnote 79: August 1553. Debts of the crown. Irish debt, L36,094 18s. Household debts, L14,574 16s. Further household debts, L7450 5s. Berwick debt, with the wages of the officers, L16,639 18s. Calais debt, beside L17,000 of loans and other things, L21,184 10s. Ordnance Office, L3134 7s. Public works, L3200. Admiralty debt, L3923 4s. Debts in the Office of the Chamber, L17,968. Debts beyond the seas by Sir Thomas Gresham's particular bill, L61,068. Alderney's debt, L3028. Scilly debt, L3071.--_MS. Mary, Domestic_, vol. i. State Paper Office.] [Footnote 80: Note of things to be attended to: _MS. Mary, Domestic_, vol. i.] In happier times Mary might have been a worthy queen, and Gardiner an illustrious minister;[81] but the fatal superstition {p.034} which confounded religion with orthodox opinion was too strong for both of them. [Footnote 81: Another natural feature of these curious days was the arrest of suspected persons; one of whom, Edward Underhill, the Hot Gospeller, has left behind him, in the account of his own adventures, a very vivid picture of the time. Underhill was a yeoman of the guard. He had seen service in the French wars, but had been noted chiefly for the zeal which he had shown in the late reign in hunting Catholics into gaol. He had thus worked his way into Court favour. During the brief royalty of Jane Grey, his wife was confined. His child was christened at the Tower church, and Suffolk and Pembroke were "gossips," and Jane herself was godmother. The day that Mary was proclaimed, he put out a ballad, which, as he expected, brought him into trouble. "The next day," he is telling his own story, "after the queen was come to the Tower, the foresaid ballad came into the hands of Secretary Bourne, who straightway made inquiry for the said Edward, who dwelt in Lymehurst; which he having intelligence of, sent the sheriff of Middlesex with a company of bills and glaives, who came into my house, being in my bed, and my wife newly laid in childbed. The high constable, whose name is Thomas Joy, dwelled at the house next to me, whom the sheriff brought also with him. He being my very friend, desired the sheriff and his company to stay without for