Inherited Lundy Eggesford, Annery, Monkleigh in Devon and other properties in Kent and Sussex from his maternal Grandfather the Duke of Ormond. A chief courtier to King Henry VIII, his wife was Lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon and they both attended the "Field of the Cloth of Gold" in France. They also attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn, his cousin on 29 May 1533 in Westminster Abbey. His son was awarded many lands in Devon in Exchange for Kent property owned by his grandmother. "Served" at Exeter Cathedral. [THELMA.GED]

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