Thomas Watson’s Lodging from May 1561 to September 1562

At barely six in mid-1561, Watson had the misfortune of having his parents die successively and was hence moved from the London house he grew up in at Mark Lane, Saint Olave, to another dwelling temporarily before he joined Winchester College. He lived from mid-1561 to September 1562, for nearly sixteen months, at this temporary dwelling either in London or in his Uncle Lee's estate in Oxford, till he joined Winchester College and stayed there until his graduation for the next seven years in mid-1569. He is recorded in the Winchester College as having been enrolled there wherein his dwelling is noted as Saint Helen's parish, London