Francis Knollys, the eldest son and heir of Sir Robert Knollys and his wife Lettice Penninston, was born c.1512, likely at Rookes Manor...

Edmund Dudley, esq. was the grandson of John Dudley, 1st Baron Sutton...

From 1574, cartographer Christopher Saxton (born c.1540, in Dewsbury, Yorkshire), began a survey of England...

Lady Anne Clifford, Duchess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, was born January 1590 at Skipton Castle.

In Mar 1550, a poem was composed, dedicated to the life and achievements of the recently deceased Marguerite of Navarre -The Hecatodistichon