[1][2] He became a student at Oxford, probably as a member of Hart Hall, in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, but it is not known whether he took a degree.
Ferrers was apparently a Member of Parliament for Callington, Cornwall, in 1597, and was a Catholic (Charles Dodd, Church Hist.
[4] William Dugdale, who in writing the Antiquities of Warwickshire made extensive use of Ferrers's manuscript collections, describes him as an eminent antiquary and "a man of distinguished worth, reflecting lustre on the ancient and noble family to which he belonged".
[5] "He had also in his younger days", says Anthony Wood, "a good faculty in poetry, some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the reign of qu.
[6] He married, in October 1582, Jane, daughter and coheiress of Henry White, esq., of South Warnborough, Hampshire, son of Sir Thomas White, knight, and by her (who died 7 September 1586, aged 23) he had a son Edward and a daughter Mary.