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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JULY 1795 . MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PETRE , OF WRITTLE , IN ESSEX . ' WITH A PORTRAIT . , .
THIS noble lord is descended from Sir William Petre , who was employed by Henry VIII . in divers affairs of consequence , especially in ' what tended to the dissolution of the relig ious houses , then in agitation , being in the . twenty-seventh year of . that reign with some others put into commission by Cromwell , the general visitor , to repair to all the monasteries throughout Englandand to enquire into
, the government and behaviour of the votaries-of both sexes , in . order to pick up sufficient matter to ground an accusation on ; and that grand work being afterwards fully accomplished to the king ' s satisfaction , his majesty , as an acknowledgment to . Sir William for his diligence and fidelity on that occasion , granted to him and Ger- ; trude his wifein fee , the priory of Clatercote in the county of
Ox-, ford , in the 30 th year of his reign , and the year after the manor of Gynge-Abbots , in the county of Essex , parcel of the possessions of the then-dissolved monastery of Barking , in that county , with the advowson of the rectory of Ingatestone , alias Gyng ad Petram ; in which commissions for visiting the reli g ious houses he had the title of one of the Clerks in Chancery , and was also Master of the Requests ;
but in these employments his great learning and talents having been observed by the king , he was in the 35 th year of his reign first sworn , of the Privy Council , and soon after constituted one of the principal secretaries of state . In the 3 8 th of the same reign , the king then lying on his death-bed , and appointing such as should be of the council to Edward his son and successorin matters of great conse-.
, quence , he was nominated one of those who were appointed assistants to them . King Edward VI . continued him in his office of principal secretary of state ; and in the third of that reign he was made trea-IS 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JULY 1795 . MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PETRE , OF WRITTLE , IN ESSEX . ' WITH A PORTRAIT . , .
THIS noble lord is descended from Sir William Petre , who was employed by Henry VIII . in divers affairs of consequence , especially in ' what tended to the dissolution of the relig ious houses , then in agitation , being in the . twenty-seventh year of . that reign with some others put into commission by Cromwell , the general visitor , to repair to all the monasteries throughout Englandand to enquire into
, the government and behaviour of the votaries-of both sexes , in . order to pick up sufficient matter to ground an accusation on ; and that grand work being afterwards fully accomplished to the king ' s satisfaction , his majesty , as an acknowledgment to . Sir William for his diligence and fidelity on that occasion , granted to him and Ger- ; trude his wifein fee , the priory of Clatercote in the county of
Ox-, ford , in the 30 th year of his reign , and the year after the manor of Gynge-Abbots , in the county of Essex , parcel of the possessions of the then-dissolved monastery of Barking , in that county , with the advowson of the rectory of Ingatestone , alias Gyng ad Petram ; in which commissions for visiting the reli g ious houses he had the title of one of the Clerks in Chancery , and was also Master of the Requests ;
but in these employments his great learning and talents having been observed by the king , he was in the 35 th year of his reign first sworn , of the Privy Council , and soon after constituted one of the principal secretaries of state . In the 3 8 th of the same reign , the king then lying on his death-bed , and appointing such as should be of the council to Edward his son and successorin matters of great conse-.
, quence , he was nominated one of those who were appointed assistants to them . King Edward VI . continued him in his office of principal secretary of state ; and in the third of that reign he was made trea-IS 1