in the forces for the defence of the queen's person against the threatened attack of the Spanish Armada

Sir Walter Ralegh was under Peyton's care as a prisoner in the Tower, and his ‘strange and dejected mind’ had caused concern to Peyton, for whom he would send several times a day in his passions of grief

a post forfeited by attainder of its previous holder, Sir Walter Raleigh

though it was stated by John Lewis Peyton that he was ninety-nine at the time of his death, and the monument of his great-granddaughter Mrs Alice Lowe, in Christ Church, Oxford, gives his age at death as 105, from his own statements of his age as seventy-nine in February 1624 and eighty in December 1624 it appears that Peyton was in fact eighty-six