THE DEVOTED DAUGHTER. of his vengeance remained for the space of a month upon London Bridge. ; and there is a pretty legend telling that Margaret would be rowed beneath it, and, nothing horrified at the dismal spectacle, say aloud, " That head he layde many a time in my lappe ; would to God, would to God, it would fall into my lappe as I passe under now," and that the head did so fall, and she " carried it in her lappe" until she placed it in her husband's vault at Canter- bury. In reality, at the end of the month, as it was about to be cast into the Thames to make room for others, she bought it. This brought her into diffi- culties, for the tyrannical King threw her into prison, "both because she kept her father's head for a relic, and that she meant to set her father's works in print." She was set free after the lapse of a few months, nothing of the slightest reason being proved against her ; and henceforth she passed her time in the education of her children, and in the management of her domestic affairs. She had two boys, Thomas and Anthony, and three daughters, - Elizabeth, Margaret, and Mary. These children she trained with the most zealous care ; and gave them thè advantage of instructions from the best masters. She was very anxious to engage the services of the famous Roger Ascham, the tutor of the Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth but as he would not consent to quit the University of Cambridge, she obtained the tuition of two other eminent professors. Her daughter Mary, who was 23
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