Richard E. Kent wrote: >>I,m just a rookie here, but were there any English wars during these times >>that he may have been killed in? Paul Irving wrote: >Oh yes. That's an interesting suggestion, Richard, though death in a war wouldn't have been a very common cause of fatality among Englishmen of the Tudor period. There were no civil wars in England the 16th century, and while there were a few rebellions, they were all brief, unsuccessful affairs and did not result in many fatalities (and those who did die were mostly from the extremities of the country - the north and also the southwest, plus a very small number from East Anglia). I seem to remember that a few Bucks people were involved in some minor upheaval in the early 16th century, and possibly one or two of them was hanged afterwards, but Henry Wattes was alive as late as 1556, and I think the Bucks rebels I'm thinking of were from the classes below the gentry (their leader was a priest from somewhere near Brill, I seem to remember). As for external wars, there was of course the Armada, in 1584, and campaigns in Scotland in the 1510s and 1540s, plus endemic low intensity warfare (often little more than banditry, really) on the Scottish border and in Ireland, but all of these wars involved only a tiny fraction of the English population. An interesting idea, though, and thank you for it. Matt