[1] The burning took place outside the eastern side of the city walls, near the Livery Dole where, in 1592, his son, Sir Robert Dennis, commenced the building of an almshouse, possibly an act of atonement for his father's action.

In April 1558 he was commissioned to command the Militia of the City of Exeter and neighbouring Hundreds of Devonshire.

[1] He married, secondly, in 1524, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Angel Donne of London, and Anne Hawarden (alias Hawardine), of Cheshire, and widow of Thomas Murfyn,[1] an alderman and former Lord Mayor of London.

[1][7] By March 1534 his stepdaughter, Frances Murfyn, had married, Thomas Cromwell's nephew, Richard.

[8][9] His wife's brother, Gabriel Donne (died 1558), was the last Abbot of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, who in 1539 on the Dissolution of the Monasteries surrendered his abbey to Sir William Petre, as agent for King Henry VIII and was rewarded with a large annual pension of £120.