[5] Apparently an augmentation (and perhaps a confirmation) of Hugh's arms was prepared for Miles Partridge by Sir Christopher Barker, Garter (died January 1549/50).
In the London subsidy of 1541, where his name is listed next to that of the historian John Leland, he was appraised at 20s on property valued at £40 in the half-parish of St Michael-le-Querne, in the ward of Farringdon Within.
[8] He was granted the lordship and manor of Almondsbury in Gloucestershire (formerly belonging to St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol), with a reservation of £8.10s rent, in fee, for £1,773 (April 1545).
It was commonly said that on one occasion, when gambling with the king, he staked £100 on a single throw of the dice against the bells of the Jesus Chapel in the churchyard of St. Paul's Cathedral and the tower on which they hung.
In May 1549 he acquired the riverside mansion at Kew[19] which John Machell had purchased in 1546[20] (befitting a Master of the Clothworkers' Company): Partridge's occupancy was equally short-lived.
[11] Partridge was little pitied, wrote John Strype, both because of his association with the actions of Edward Seymour, and also because his destruction of the bells at the Jesus Chapel was thought to have served King Henry's renunciation of papal authority.
[16] After his death, on 16 April 1552 the capital messuage, gardens, orchards, stable, dairy house and lands at Kew (within the parish of Mortlake), together with all his goods and chattels there, were granted to Sir Henry Gates, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, in light of the attainder of Miles Partridge.
[28][4] In April 1553, by patent of the Court of Augmentations, his widow Joan received compensation of her dower from the Crown and was granted the lordship, manor and borough of Kenn, in Devon.
[29][30] Early in the reign of Queen Mary, in December 1553 his heirs were restored in blood by private act of Parliament,[31][32] and by further grants Joan's dower was confirmed to her during 1554.