 The matter came to a head when Surrey quartered the attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor.John Barlow had once called Surrey "the most foolish proud boy that is in England" and, although the arms of Surrey's ancestor Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk show that he was entitled to bear Edward the Confessor's arms, doing so was an act of pride.In consequence, the King ordered Surrey's imprisonment and that of his father, sentencing them to death on 13 January 1547.