 In 1546 Denys acquired Wye College, Kent, from Walter Buckler, who had been granted it by the crown following the Dissolution.Buckler was secretary to Queen Katherine Parr and the second husband of Katherine Denys, Maurice's sister, whose first husband had been Edmund Tame (died 1544) of Fairford, Gloucestershire.Buckler’s licence to alienate, dated at Westminster 25 December 1546, is recorded in the Patent Rolls