Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Burroughs
Sir John Burroughs.
HERALD,
Or Boroughs, was born at Sandwich, the son, it is said, of a gardener or brewer; who, however, gave his son a liberal education, He studied law in Gray's Inn, and, in 1623, was appointed, on account of his antiquarian knowledge, keeper of the records in the Tower. He was made Mowbray Herald by Queen Elizabeth, and knighted by James I. He attended Charles I, when he went to Scotland to be crowned, and in 1633 he was made Garterking-at-Arms. During the Civil War he accompanied the king on his campaigns, and died October 21st, 1643, at Oxford, where he lies buried in Christ Church Cathedral. He was the author of the following works (1) "Impetus Juveniles et quædam selectiores aliquantulum Animi Epistolæ," (2) "The Sovereignty of the British Seas, proved by Records, etc." He is said to have also made a collection of the Records in the Tower.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses," by Bliss, "Noble's College of Arms" "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]