Family
He married five times. The majority of his children were born to his first marriage to Elizabeth Bourne.
He purchased, with his son Henry, Doynton Manor, Gloucestershire c.1598 from Arthur Player of Westerleigh, who had acquired it in 1595. Another child was his daughter Elizabeth who married the cloth merchant, Sir John Quarles (not to be confused with the later poet John Quarles).
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