[6] Following John's death, Alice married Sir Thomas Ap Morgan of Pencoed Castle in Monmouthshire with whom she had further children.

[1] Thomas maintained a connection with his family in Wales, leaving £100 in his 1522 will to James Ap Morgan 'my brother', who lived in Usk.

[10] He made regular trips to both Bristol and Spain, maintaining a house in Seville, in addition to his London property.

[1] Howell was primarily a cloth merchant, dealing in woollen broadcloth, which was the mainstay of England's export trade.

His wife, Joanne, died in London in 1529 and Howell decided to stay in Seville, where he had substantial business interests.

[17] The repatriation of Howell's Spanish assets proved a complicated and protracted process, in great part because of the commencement of the Reformation in England, following Henry VIII's break with Rome.

Howell himself had, however, remained a committed Catholic leaving substantial bequests to religious institutions in Spain, including 30,000 Requiem Masses to be said for his soul in Seville.

The transcription of the ledger began in the 1950s by John Brierley[20] (Birkbeck, University of London) but was not published by the time of his death in 2008.

In 2024 Brierley's transcription was published by Bristol Record Society in a volume edited by Heather Dalton (University of Melbourne).

[22] The bequest enabled the Drapers to purchase their current Hall, the former house of Thomas Cromwell at Austin Friars.