[1] In younger life a servant of Thomas Cromwell, in 1540 he was granted lease of the demesne lands of Ayshbury in Berkshire, a grange of Glastonbury Abbey which had been in dispute with the Bishop of Sarum.
[6] In 1549 he delivered the letters from Sir John Russell and William Herbert showing their support for Warwick against Lord Protector Somerset.
[10] At Ralph's death and inquisition post mortem, his heir-at-law was however found to be his uncle William Haines, by then an octogenarian.
[12] His will refers to "my nephew Arthur" and "Mistress Rachel his wife" in the same sentence, and asks that they remember his poor kinred.
[15] Reaching their sentence the justices in Chancery noted that Sir Ralph had left his lands "to the defendaunte Rachaell being noe waie allyed unto her so as she married unto one whose surname should be Hopton, which she afterwarde did marrie with the said Arthur Hopton"; and Lord Keeper Egerton, "in respect of the greate advauncemente whiche the said defendauntes had had by the said Sir Raphe", awarded the suit for the copyhold of a gristmill at Ditcheat to Elizabeth Gregorie and her husband.