He contributed to the subsidy in Wilmecote in 1526 and 1546. We know no more of his first wife than we know of his mother. She might have been either a Trussel or a Palmer. But we know that he had seven[86] daughters, who all bore Arden family names: _Agnes_, who married first John Hewyns, and secondly Thomas Stringer, by whom she had two sons, John and Arden Stringer; _Joan_, who married Edmund Lambert, of Barton-on-the-Heath, who had a son, John Lambert; _Katharine_, who married Thomas Edkyns of Wilmecote, who had a son, Thomas Edkyns the younger; _Margaret_, who married first Alexander Webbe of Bearley (by whom she had a son Robert), and secondly Edward Cornwall; _Joyce_, of whom there is no record but in her father's settlement and will;[87] _Alice_, who was one of the co-executors of her father's will, but of whom there is no further record; and _Mary_, the other executor, who married John Shakespeare. The exact dates of their birth are not known. Robert may be supposed to have been married about 1520, and it is probable that Mary was born about 1535. It is _likely_ that she was of age when made executor in 1556, but not at all _necessary_. Robert Arden married again when his family had grown up--probably in 1550--Agnes Webbe, who had been assessed as the widow of Hill of Bearley on L7, in 37 Henry VIII., 1546. On July 17, 1550, Robert Arden made two settlements of the Snitterfield estates, probably upon his marriage.[88] In the first,[89] he devised estates at Snitterfield in trust to Adam Palmer and Hugh Porter, for the benefit, after the death of himself and his wife, of his three married daughters--Agnes, Joan and Katharine. In the second, a similar deed,[90] in favour of three other daughters--Margaret (then married to Alexander Webbe of Bearley), Joyce and Alice. Mary is not mentioned, probably because the Asbies estate was even then devoted to her.