He died at Mechlin, in the year 1565, and was buried there, leaving
behind him several children, to whom he had given liberal education,
one of whom is Jasper, who afterwards made a considerable figure, and
became a noted Jesuit.


[Footnote 1: Wood Athen, Oxon.]

[Footnote 2: Wood ubi supra.]

[Footnote 3: Worthies of London, p. 221.]

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GEORGE FERRARS,

Descended of an ancient family seated in Hertfordshire, was born there
in a village not far from St. Alban's about the year 1510[1]. He was
a lawyer, a historian, and a poet; he received his education at the
university of Oxford, but of what college he was Wood himself has not
been able to discover; he removed from thence to Lincolns'-Inn, where,
by a diligent application to the law, he made considerable progress in
his profession, and by the patronage of that great minister Cromwell
Earl of Essex, who was himself a man of astonishing abilities, he soon
made a figure at the bar. He was the menial servant of King Henry
VIII.[2] and discharged his trust both in time of war and peace with
great honour and gallantry, and shared that monarch's favour in a very
considerable degree, who made him a grant in his own country, as an