 He continued as sole Receiver of the Order until 1544, and after that acted jointly with Thomas Poley.Denys later bought the ancestral Denys manor of Siston from his elder brother, Sir Walter, who had inherited it.This was perhaps in the year 1542, when his brother needed to obtain a Royal licence to sell him Kingston Russell, and one of the brothers went on to build a new country house there, known as Siston Court.