also there's this which is a bit diffy to parse, can anything be gleaned from the relationship of Richard (presumably Richard the elder d. 1547) to these Sidneys and Apsleys? The writer is John Apsley, son of William, whose grandmother was the unnamed Sidney, daughter of Cicely Michell and Sir Wm Sidney (d. 1449?), who married Lord Knotsford (Knutsford? can't seem to pinpoint him).
“That Willm Sydney of Kingsham had 3 wyves, 1 The Lord St. John’s daughter, 2 the Lady Michell’s daughter, who lyeth in St. Magnus in London, 3 was Lord Mitforde’s widowe. By the 1 wyfe he had a daughter who was married to John Michellgrove, by whom he had issue a daughter wh. being heire to Michellgrove was married to John Shelley, Esq.; and that the said Willm. Sydney had dyvers daughters by the Lady Michell’s daughter, whereof the one was married to the Lord Knotsford, and by her had issue the Lady Beatrice and other daughters, which Beatrice was married to Richard Apsley, and the other daughters of the said Wilm Sydney were married to other gents in Sussex… And by the 3 wyfe Lord Mitforde’s widowe, my grandmother notes nothing but the marriage. And Richard Apsley and Beatrice before-named had issue Willm, Thomas, and Edward Apsley, and thus far forth my grandmother’s hand touching this peddigree. But to my knowledge the said Willm married (and) had issue John Apsley, wh. John had 2 wybes, by the one had William and John, and 5 daughters, and by the 2 had Henry the bearer, and Anthony with two daughters. And the said Edward Apsley had issue John Apsley of London who had one only daughter married to Jeffrey who was Justice in her lyfe tyme and afterwards Ld Chieff Baron, by whom she had one only daughter which is now his daughter and heire and to prove somewhat my grandmother’s saying’s true. Sometime before I was married one Stedolphe of Micklam in Surrey came to Slagham to my father-in-law’s house named Richard Covert, grandfather to the now Richard, wch. Stedolphe opening the kindred of the Sydneys, approved such kindred between the Coverts and the Apsleys by the said marriage with the said Willm Sydney his daughters. But that my Father and the said Richard Covert were (but four) germaynes removed. And the said Jane Michell and I were cousins of the 4th degree, … whereby my father-in-law and mother were divorced. And I could not marry the said Jane untill the lycense had from Rome for fyve marke paide to the Pope’s collector, about this tyme 47 years; and my father-in-law obtained a license, but my mother departed then from Slogham for conscience sake to Thackham, and there dyed. By me John Apsley.” — Harl. MSS. 1160.
Memoir of the Molineux Family
By Gisborne Molineux, p. 71
