Atye was also one of the trading group in Leicester's circle involved in commerce with Morocco, with Alexander Avenon and Richard Staper.[7] The merchant Benedict Barnham left money to Atye and his wife.[8]
Atye was residing at Kilburn when he died; he owned property in several other locations around London, including Harrow-on-the-Hill where he was buried. His eldest son and heir Robert was still a minor.[9]
Family
Atye married first Anne Quarles, the widow of William Ricthorne, who died in 1583; there were no children of the marriage. He then Judith, daughter of Walter Hungerford of Cadenham. Wiltshire. They had three or four sons, and a daughter.[1] His widow married Sir John Dormer.[10]
^Hannah Crummé, The Impact of Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester’s Spanish-Speaking Secretaries, Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies Volume 21 (2011), pp. 1-48. (PDF)Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine at p. 20.