 He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Nedham of Wymondley Priory, Hertfordshire, having ten sons and two daughters.His 1586 book entitled "Blazon of Gentrie" is written in the form of a dialogue, with six interlocutors, representing a herald, a knight, a divine, a lawyer, an antiquary, and a ploughman.Collumell, the ploughman, who speaks freely the language and opinions of the yeomanry at that time on several points, including the Protestant Reformation.