Robert Warren and his relations have been comprehensively studied by both Threlfall and Smith. According to Smith,501 “This Robert Warren was probably the able-bodied man of Nayland taxed for a moveable estate valued at £4 in 1522 (Military Survey of 1522 for Babergh Hundred, 32). In 1524 a Robert Warren of Wiston was taxed for wages of £1 and in Nayland for £6 in property (1524 Subsidy Return, 21, 8).

“The will of Robert Warren of Wiston was abstracted by Elizabeth French in the Register 64[1910]:348” and is reproduced by both Smith and Threlfall. Threlfall provides additional details about some of Robert’s children not traced by Smith. Smith is undertain whether Margaret _____ is the mother of Robert Warren’s children.