Middlemore Family Genealogy

Underhill - The Underhills were originally of Wolverhampton, but John Underhill in the early part of Henry VIII's reign, having married Agnes, daughter and heir of Thomas Porter, of Over Eatington, obtained in 1509 a lease for eighty years of that manor the seat of the Shirley family; a renewal of this in 1541 extended their stay there till 1641, when they removed to Uptrop in Aldminster, Worcestershire. According to a tabular pedigree in the Visitation of Warwickshire, 1564, this Edward Underhill is stated to have married " Margareta filia Middlemore de Throckmorton com Wygorn." This seems to strengthen the suggestion that she was of the Hawkesley line, and not of Edgbaston. Further, William Underhill was a trustee of the marriage settlement of John Middlemore (50) and Amphillis Goodwin. See p. 44 note and p. 46 ante. Arms, Argent a chevron sable between three trefoils slipped vert.
The noted "Hot Gospeller" Edward Underhill was a member of this family, being a nephew of Margaret Middlemore's husband. According to Ainsworth's " Tower of London " account he was burned at the stake, but this story is clearly a mere invention, for Protestant though he was, of an evidently bigoted type, he seems to have been trusted by Mary, was employed by her in affairs of state and survived into the reign of Elizabeth.