Writing in 1932, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, wrote the following notes with an Upton Lovell connection:
Lord Lovel took part in the rebellions against Henry VIII, at one time fleeing to France and then opposing the royal troops at Stoke, after which he was never heard of again, until his skeleton was found.
Manley attached an undated, newspaper cutting, which reads:
To look at the smiling face of Greys Court, near Henley-on-Thames, which is in the hands of Messrs. Gordon Prior and Goodwin for sale or letting, it is not easy to recall its association with “old forgotten far-off things and battles long ago.” Rotherfield Greys, on the high land beyond Henley, was bought in the reign of John by Walter de Grey, a famous Archbishop of York, one of whose brother’s posterity became Baron Rotherfield. The Lords Lovel acquired it by marriage with the De Grey heiress, and “every schoolboy” knows the tragic story of the disappearance of the last Lord Lovel after the battle of Stoke in 1487, and the discovery two hundred and twenty years later of what was supposed to be his skeleton in a secret chamber at Minster Lovel. The result of the treason of fighting for Lambert Simnel was the confiscation of Greys Court, which was granted by Henry VII. to his uncle, the Duke of Bedford, and, after his death, by Henry VIII. to Sir Robert Knollys, whose grandson became Lord Knollys of Greys, and eventually Earl of Banbury. He long had in his custody at Greys Court the infamous Earl and Countess of Somerset, the poisoners of Sir Thomas Overbury, until they were undeservedly pardoned by James I.