 Through her he acquired lands in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.None of their children survived and his estate passed to his sister Jane (died 1604), who had married Richard Alington.By 1643 Melford Hall was in the hands of Robert Cordell, first of the Cordell baronets, the great-grandson of his uncle Robert Cordell (died 1548), a brewer in the City of London, and his wife Margaret Hodge.