Jane Astley , a lady of the privy chamber of Queen Jane Seymour , married her fellow courtier Peter Meutas in 1537 , before 9 October . He was a man of action , tall , strong , an expert in small arms , with fair hair and a long beard . A follower of Thomas Cromwell , Mewtas had seen action in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 and the same year had been appointed a gentleman of the privy chamber and master of Bethlem Hospital . In 1537 , he gained two further preferments , as Comptroller of the Royal Mint and Overseer of Artillery . The couple had a child who was baptized in February 1539 . This was probably their son Henry , or perhaps their daughter Frances , who later became a gentlewoman of the chamber to Queen Elizabeth I and married Henry , second Viscount Howard of Bindon . Jane and Peter Mewtas had at least two other sons , Thomas and Hercules , of whom Hercules was their youngest . In 1539 , after the dissolution of Stratford Abbey , Peter Mewtas and his wife acquired a large estate at West Ham in Essex . In 1540 , they were granted the manor of Bretts , also at West Ham , which centred on Plaistow but included tenements at Upton , Stratford , and elsewhere
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Jane Meutas