 George's father, Robert, died in 1522 or perhaps a year or so later, as he was later recorded as occupying his position on the bench during 1523–4.He was buried close to his first wife, Katherine, in a family chapel at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, still part of an Augustinian priory.He made considerable bequests to the prior and the canons, for the high altar and for painting images, and for the poor, including 20 marks for the marriage of poor girls.