[1] However following his father's death from wounds received in a duel in 1590, the family still had debts amounting to £3,000 owed to the crown.
Although his mother bought his wardship for £166 13s 4d, but had to relinquish it when William Drury's estate was confiscated.
Four months later on 30 January 1592, his sixteenth birthday, he married Anne Bacon the daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave.
Sir Nicholas Bacon then agreed paid off the debt in return for a lease of the Hawstead estate.
William's mother had remarried Sir John Scott with whom she bought back the wardship of Robert from Puckering.