 He also wrote "A Discourse upon Usury by way of Dialogue and Orations" (1572), and he was the first to publish a translation of Demosthenes into English.He was the son of Thomas Wilson, a farmer, of Strubby, Lincolnshire.He was educated at Eton College under Nicholas Udall, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the school of Hellenists to which John Cheke, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon and others belonged.