In Becon's Jewell of Joye, published 1560, dedicated to Elizabeth, he makes Philemon, Eusebius, Theophile, and Christopher talk together of the religious state of the kingdom. Philemon, who is evidently Becon himself, had been driven from town by persecutions of enemies. He first travelled into Derbyshire, where, at the Peak, he met one Christian gentleman, which he and his friends considered marvellous in so barbarous a region. Philemon went next to Stafford, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire, supporting himself everywhere he went by teaching. His testimony is important:– “I departed into Warwykeshere, where in lyke manner as afore I frelye enjoyed the lyberallytie of my most swete and deare frende John Olde, whych, impelled by urgent causes, departed into that country for to inhabite. There lykewise taught I divers gentlemen's sonnes, whyche I truste, if they live, shall be a beautie to the publique weale of England, both for the preferment of true religion, and for the mayntenance of justice.

Euse. Howe fancied you that countrye?

Phile. I travelled boeth in Darbyeshire in the Peke, in Staffordshire, and in Lecestershere; yet Warwykeshere was to me most dere and pleasant.

Chris. Howe so?

Phile. In Lecestershire (as I may pass over the other) I had familyarite only wyth one learned man, a countryman of oures called John Aylmer, a master of arte of the Universitie of Cambridge, but Warwykeshere mynistred unto me the acqueytaunce and frendshyppe of many learned men.