“Of Ratcliffe, Stepney, and of Cockseyhurst, Eastwood, Essex....When at St Dunstan’s he was married three times. He equipped and was Captain successively of the ‘Samuel’ 140 tons and 70 men and the ‘Tobey Jr’ 140 tons and 70 men, in the Spanish Armada fight.”144,139

“...an alderman of London, and in 1588 fitted out and commanded two ships of war, with which he joined the royal navy to oppose the Spanish armada.”147

After the Armada defeat, Elizabeth I gave him a coat of arms which were adopted by the family in place of the heraldry of his French forebears. He was a mariner by trade according to his will, an alderman of London, and a member of the Virginia Company. (Dictionary of American Biography)139

Died of the plague.144

“Ancestry of John Vassall” site lists a final daughter, Ann, born 1594, but Anne Russell Vassall was dead by that point.139