< He was 'plebeius homo.' >

Sir William Dugdale (Clarenceux), and Sir Edward Bisshe, the heralds, had an esteeme and respect for him, in so much that they would have graunted him a coate of armes; but he refused it—which methinkes he neede not have donne.

Vide Alexander Broome's poemes:—

He that weares a brave soule and dares honestly doe
Is a herault to himselfe and a godfather too.

Vide Ben Jonson's Underwoods—that 'the most worthy men have been rock't in meane cradles.'