Milcote is a township in the parish of Weston upon Avon. Probalby the licence has to do the status of Lewis and, particularly his wife, Thomasina.

"To whom suceeded Lodowik his son and heir then 22 years of age; who being an ambitious and spirited man, procured Licence (Pat. 9 Eliz. p. 3.) from Q Eliz. in 9 of her reign, to make a Castle here at Milcote, and to call in Mount-Grevill, which accordingly he began to do on the top of the Hill above a quarter of a mile Southwards from the old Mannour house, as is to be seen by part of the fabrick yet standing." (Dugdale)

Lewis Greville (d. 1589), Warwickshire gentry, had held Milcote for generations. No particular royal connection but Lewis was married to Thomasina, daughter of William Petre, former principle secretary of state, who had obtained a licence for Ingatestone Hall in 1551 (qv). The licenced house had direct access to the deer park. The VCH records that the house was not finished and that Grevell resorted to murder and falsifying a will in an attempt to get the money to continue the house.

Lewis suffered death for the murder of one Webb, of Drayton, co. Oxon. (Dugdale, Antiqs. of Warws. ii, 711). In June of this year (1589) Katherine Webb of Drayton, widow of Thomas Webb, had sued Lewis Greville to recover possession of a messuage called the New House, with lands and pastures called Goldicote, leased to her late husband by Lewis, who had afterwards obtained possession of the lease under colour of a supposed will (Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 230, no. 34). According to Dugdale Lewis Greville had forged a will in his own favour. (VCH)