text:  He was equally liberal in providing a pedigree for his friend Mr Burgham a worthy and credulous pewterer in his native town convincing him by proofs that were not conclusive at the Herald's College that he was descended from the De Burghams who possessed the estate and manor of Brougham in the reign of Edward the Confessor and so allying the delighted hearer with the forefathers of an illustrious Ex-Chancellor of our day