In 1561, he entertained Queen Elizabeth I at his principal residence, Allington Morley, Great Hallingbury, Essex.
In 1569, he refused to sign the Act of Uniformity 1558 and the following year left the country without the Queen's permission.
He was first based in Brussels and later in Madrid, where Philip II of Spain made him a gift of 600 ducats in 1574.
He married Lady Elizabeth Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby and Lady Dorothy Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and his second wife Agnes Tilney.
[2] She was a Lady of Honour at the court and a prominent recusant, being arrested at her house in Aldgate, London, for attending a Catholic service on Palm Sunday, 1574.