ABSTRACT
William Roper was a lawyer who married Sir Thomas More's daughter Margaret. As prothonotary of the Queen's Bench, Roper was a colleague of Richard Heywood. Anthony Roper had a second home in London. A grandson of Roper's nephew John married Mary, the daughter of John Petre's son William; and the elder of Roper's sons, Thomas, married Lucy Browne. Lucy was a sister-in-law of Lady Montague, whose chaplain was a brother of Byrd's daughter-in-law A subsidy roll of 1582 shows him living in the parish of St Botolph Aldersgate, where John Petre had his London home. Anthony Roper's daughter Isabel married Sir Thomas Wiseman of Rivenhall, Essex, an uncle of Richard Wiseman of the Goldsmith's Company to whom Philip Smyth sold Battishall Manor in 1594. Among others knighted at the same time were William Roper of Eltham and Christopher Roper of Linsted in Kent.
