Heywood, that hath made men merry
long?
Yea, and will, if I be made merry among.
Art thou Heywood, that would'st be made merry
now?
Yes, Sir, help me to it now, I beseech you.

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
evidence of his affection for him. This grant of the King's happened
in the year 1535; and yet in seven years afterwards, either thro' want
of economy, or by a boundless confidence in his friends, he reduced
his affairs to a very indifferent situation, which, perhaps, might
be the reason, why he procured himself to be chosen Member for the
Borough of Plymouth in the county of Devon,[3] in the Parliament
summoned the thirty-third year of that King's reign. During the
Sessions he had the misfortune to be arrested by an officer belonging
to the Sheriffs of London, and carried to the counter, then in
Bread-street. No sooner had the House of Commons got notice of this
insult offered to one of their Members, than they immediately enacted
a settled rule, which from that accident took place, with respect to
privilege, and ever since that time the Members of the House have
been exempt from arrests for debt. His Majesty likewise resented
the affront offered to his servant, and with the concurrence of the
Parliament proceed