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.
MASON, Sir John (1502/3-66)