Raised in Kent under the patronage of his father. Educated at Cambridge and appointed to the King’s Latin Secretariat. Married in 1538 to Maria de la Mare (Mary Wareham), daughter of French Huguenot refugees of Rouen.
Preserved correspondence of his uncle Cardinal Schiner and maintained a private archive known as the Codex Valesiana, now lost. Buried at St. Eanswythe’s, Folkestone.



