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MASON, SIR JOHN (15031566) , English diplomatist, was born of humble parentage at Abingdon in 1503, and was educated at Oxford, where he became Fellow of All Souls in 1521. He was ordained before 1531. Most of his early years were spent on the Continent, where he witnessed the meeting between Henry
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ambassador at Madrid, Sir Thomas
ambassador in Paris, where he helped to arrange the bethrothal of Edward VI. to the princess Elizabeth of France. He returned to England at the end of 1551, became clerk of parliament , received extensive grants of land, and in 1552 was made chancellor of Oxford University. Ile was elected member of parliament in the same year. On the death of Edward VI., he at first joined the party of Northumberland and the Lady Jane Grey; but quickly perceiving his mistake he took an active part in procuring the proclamation of Mary as queen. Mason now received fresh tokens of royal favour, being confirmed in all his secular, though not in his ecclesiastical, offices; and in 1553 he was appointed English ambassador at the court of the emperor Charles V., of whose abdication at Brussels in October 1555 he wrote a vivid account. He took a prominent share in theadministrative business of the government in the first years of Elizabeth's reign, and largely influenced her foreign policy until his death, which occurred on the loth of April 1566. Sir John Mason married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas
heir was Anthony Wyckes, whom he had adopted, and who assumed the name of Mason and left a large family.See J. A. Froude, History of England (12 vols., London, 1856187o) ; Charles Wriothesley, Chronicle of England during the Reigns of the Tudors, edited by W. D. Hamilton (Camden Soc., 2 vols., London, 1875) ; P. F. Tytler
series ), edited by J. R. Dasent, vols. i.vii.End of Article: MASON, SIR JOHN (15031566) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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