Robert Puttenham, of (Puttenham and) Sherfield

Sir George's only son Robert married Margery, sister of the author Sir Thomas Elyot. In 1522-24 he was Master of the Revels in the Middle Temple, for the Puttenhams were now well established in the legal, literary and learned circles of the time. When his father died Robert's inheritance of all the family estates was confirmed by Henry VIII. In 1540 he was one of a train of nobles and gentlemen sent to welcome Anne of Cleves. However, the needs of his five aunts, his nine sisters, and his own four daughters were making serious inroads into his capital. By 1536 Stoke Doyle had passed to Andrew, first Lord Windsor, and the sale in 1542-of Tandridge and Willey, Surrey, to a London Goldsmith, John Cooke.