[BU] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'parted per pale gules and
argent, 3 bucks or; a crescent for difference,' wreathing it in laurel.
On this he notes: (_a_) 'This coat was in his banner when he went into
Scotland'; (_b_) 'Suckling of Wotton in Norfolke'; (_c_) 'vide Heralds'
Office'; (_d_) 'Memorandum:--this Sir John <Suckling> is not to be
found in the <Heralds'> Office: quaere Sir ... Bourman of White Hall.'
Dr. Philip Bliss has added also the reference: 'vide part iii, pag.
4b,' i.e. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 10ᵛ, the passage given _supra_.
[BV] In the letter in which Aubrey speaks of writing this life (_supra_
i. p. 2: MS. Ballard 14, fol. 131) he says:--'I want the scoffing
ballad that Sir John Menis made against him, upon his fine troope
and his running away. To which Sir John Suckling replyed in another
ballad:--
"I prithee, foole, who ere thou bee,
That madest this fine sing-song of mee
... a sott
... or els some rebell Scott."