When therefore the Earl and Raleigh were finally caged together in the
Tower for life in 1606 their friendship was of more than twenty years'
standing. From this we infer that Hariot also knew Percy almost from the
time of his joining Raleigh; but the earliest mention of his name in
connection with that of the Earl which we have met with is this of 1596,
in the Earl's pay-rolls, still preserved at Sion, and described in the
Sixth Report of the Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts, page
227, 'To Mr. Herytt for a book of the Turk's pictures, 7s.' It appears
from the same rolls that from Michaelmas 1597 to 1610, if not earlier
and later, an annual pension of £80 (not £ 120, or £ 150, £300, as
variously stated) was paid to Hariot by the Earl. This pension was
probably continued as long as Hariot lived; and besides there are not
wanting many marks of the Earl's liberality, friendship, and love for
his companion and pensioner, who was long known as ' Hariot of Sion on
Thames,' as expressed on his monument. In the Earl's accounts for 1608
there is this entry, ' Payment for repairing and finishing Mr Heriotts
house at Sion.'

At what time exactly Hariot took up his residence at Sion the Earl's new
seat (purchased of James in 1604) is not known, but probably soon after
the Earl was sent to the Tower in 1606. There is preserved a Letter from
Sir William Lower addressed to Hariot at Sion dated the 3Oth of
September 1607, and other letters or papers exist showing his continued
residence there until near the time of his death in 1621. Wood and many
subsequent writers to the present time have confused Sion near Isleworth
with Sion College in London. They are totally distinct. Hariot had
nothing to do with Sion College, which was not founded until 1630, nine
years after his death. The error arose out of the coincidence of
Torporley's taking chambers at Sion College on retiring from his
clerical profession, and dying there in April 1632, leaving his