 His stepsister, Mary Fitzalan, translated into Latin 'four collections of sententiae, from Greek and English sources' (now BL, Royal MSS 12 A.i–iv), which she dedicated as New Year's gifts to her father.The final one, according to Hodgson-Wright, was 'a joint effort with her stepbrother John Ratcliffe'.Radcliffe was a Member of Parliament for Castle Rising in 1558 and Grampound in 1559.