Vaux privately disapproved of King Henry VIII's divorce from his first wife, Katherine of Aragon.

In 1532, he attended Henry VIII to Calais and Boulogne and was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.

[6] Vaux was the friend of other court poets such as Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

[3] From that marriage, Vaux had three older paternal half-sisters; Katherine Throckmorton; Alice Sapcote; and Anne Le Strange.

[5] Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany), published in 1557: "The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the "Dittye ... representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes.