He accompanied Henry VIII to Calais in 1532, landing on 11 Oct.,[1] officiated at the coronation of Anne Boleyn in 1534, and at the christening of Edward VI in 1537.
"[2] In July 1540 Henry VIII intimated his intention of reviving the office of treasurer of Calais, and appointing to it his trusty "councillor" Sir Edward Wotton, whose patent was dated 24 Nov. following.
The phrase does not necessarily imply that Wotton was a member of the English privy council, and he is not recorded as attending any of its meetings during Henry's reign.
In April he was again made a commissioner to settle the disputes as to the frontier of the Boulonnais, and the growing hostility of France kept him busy with preparations for defence.
He was lodging in Warwick Lane, Holborn, on the 18th, he signed the council's manifesto against the Protector on 6 October, and accompanied the other councillors to Windsor six days later, when Somerset was arrested.
Hasted states that be died on 8 November 1550, but he attended the council on the 22nd of that month, and in January 1550-1 was suppressing disorder in Kent.
Sir Robert was grandson of Nicholas Wotton (1372–1448), who was sheriff in 1400 and lord mayor in 1415, and again in 1430, and represented the city in parliament continuously from 1406 to 1429.
[8] The latter's son, Sir Robert was born in 1465, was knighted by Edward IV, served as Sheriff of Kent in 1498-9, was made lieutenant of Guianes, and from 1510 to 1519 was knight-porter of Calais.