(232) Prof.J.Bate: Why Shakespeare's (last?) play "The Tempest" became the first play in the First Folio?

Does Prof. Bate  expect us to believe

 that Ralph Crane was the "simple" company scribe.??

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Prof.Jonathan Bate

In lesson 9.9 of his Shakespeare MOOC course Prof.Bate asks why does the „last(?)“ Shakespeare play „The Tempest“ comes first in the First Folio?

He proposed 3 practical reasons. The third was: "There would’ve been a very clean manuscript prepared by Raph Crane, the company scribe."

Note: Crane's involvement of the First Folio is extensive, he was termed "Shakespeares First Editor."

Prof. Bate cannot expect us to believe that Raph Crane was the "simple" company scribe. Consider that he published his own noteworthy poem

"The Works of Mercy, Both Corporeal and Spiritual (1621)", 

which appeared (a year after the First Folio) in an enlarged version as "The Pilgrimes New-Yeares-Gift"(1625) s,Faksimile- 

There, in "The Authors Induction" Raph Crane wrote about himself (page 11)

Raph Crane page 11  The authors induction

Can anybody really believe that  Raph Crane              was  a "simple" company scribe?

What do  these remarkable lines explicitly tell us ?

The true Shakespeare (alias Marlowe/Crane...) reveals shortly after the release of the First Folio that he composed the grave Epitaph (in Stratford) 

behold a wonder stay and read

here  buried lies a man that is not dead

death darts was tipt with life