Commons 1509-1558

Sec. to Sir Thomas Wyatt I 1537 – 41; acting clerk of Privy Council 1541, clerk 1543; French sec. 1542, jt. sec. 1545; dep. to Sir William Paget as clerk of the Parliaments Jan. 1542, clerk July 1550, jt. clerk Dec. 1551 – d.; jt. (with Sir William Paget) master of the posts 29 Sept. 1545 – d.; envoy to Emperor 1546, 1553 – 56, France 1550 – 51; receiver of petitions in the Lords, Parlt. of 1547; j.p. Hants 1547, q. Hants and Mdx. 1554, Berks. 1562; commr. chantries, Berks. and Hants 1548, relief, Hants 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, London 1552, 1553, subsidy, Mdx. 1559, visit Oxf. univ. 1559; keeper, Easthampstead Park and bailiff, Finchampstead, Berks. 1548; steward, Queen Catherine Parr’s manor of Lymington, Hants by 1548; steward for Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, unknown property by 1548; lands late of Abingdon abbey 1549; dean of Winchester 1549 – 53; PC 19 Apr. 1550 – d.; master of requests 1552; chancellor Oxf. univ. 1552 – 56, 1559 – 64; master, Christ’s Hospital, Abingdon 1553; treasurer, the chamber, 1558–d.LP Hen. VIII, xvii, xviii, xx; CPR, 1547–8 to 1563–6 passim; PPC, vii. 248; APC, i. pp. xv, 118; ii. 433; EHR, lxxiii. 79, 82; LJ, i. 293; VCH Oxon. iii. 39; CSP Dom. 1547–80, p. 129; Wood, Hist. Oxf. Univ. ii(1), 140; E163/12/17, nos. 38, 51, 54; 315/340, f. 66v.

Sheriff, Wilts. 1542 – 43, 1550 – 51, 1561 – 62; j.p. 1547, 1561, q. 1564; commr. relief 1550, oyer and terminer 1554.CPR, 1547–8, p. 91; 1553, p. 359; 1553–4, p. 28; 1563–6, pp. 27–28.