His son and heir Walter and 5 daughters married members of the local Gloucestershire gentry.
He may already have already held a post under the dean and chapter,[3] his father having acquired the advowson of the church before the dissolution of the monasteries[4] and some of the materials from the buildings afterwards.
[5] His uncle, Maurice Denys and his brothers-in-law, Oliver St. John and Francis Russell were also members of the same parliament.
His family's fortunes waned during the reign of Mary, but showed signs of recovery with the accession of Elizabeth I, when he became a justice of the peace in Gloucestershire.
[6] By 1574 he was involved in a dispute over Siston, where it was claimed he had mortgaged and separately sold the same property.