The Merry Wifes of Alberbury

First wife
He remained single until eighty in 1563 when he married first wife, Jane Taylor, by whom he he lived for thirty-two years and had a son and a daughter, both of whom died in infancy.

Second wife
Eight or ten years after the death of the first wife Jane, he married Jane Lloyd, at the age of 120 or 122 he married, He had a child by his second wife (but other sources say they had no children).

Third wife
He was alleged to have been forced to do penance for licentious conduct when over a hundred. At the age of l00 (according to Taylor at the age of a 105 or, another source, tell when he was over the age of 130) court documents show that he pleaded guilty to the charge of being unfaithful to his wife and in consequence of this intrigue to be the father to an illegitimate child by Katherine Milton, whom he afterwards married as his second wife. He did penance by standing draped in a white sheet at the door of the parish church of Alberbury.