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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
surer of the court of first-fruits for life ; and in the fourth one of the commissioners to treat of peace with the French at Guisnes . He was also , in that reign , commissioned , with the Archbishop of Canterbury and others , in confidence of their sound knowledge , zealou 3 faith , innocency of life and behaviour , and readiness in the dispatch of affairs , to punish and correct all rectors , vicars , and other ecclesiasticsas well as laymen of what condition soeverwho shall despise
, , or speak evil of the book called " The Book of the Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments , and other rites and ceremonies of the Church , after the use of the Church of England ; " with power to imprison the guilty , and load them with irons if necessary or admit them to bail . Nevertheless he was so much in favour with Queen Mary that she made him , in the first year of her reign , her principal
secretary of state , and chancellor of the garter , with the fee of an hundred marks per annum ; but then perceiving that the re-establishirient of the Popish religion might endanger his possession of those abbey-lands which had been granted him by Henry VIII . he had interest enough to procure a dispensation from Pope Paul IV . for the retaining them ; " he affirming ( as it is expressed in the bull ) that
he was ready to employ them to spiritual uses . " Queen Mary entrusted him also with concluding the treaty of marriage between her and Philip archduke , of Austria . He was also some time principal secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth , and was one of her privy council till her death . ' She had likewise joined him with others in
several important commissions . He had been seven times employed ' in foreign embassies ; he augmented Exeter college in Oxford with lands to the value of an hundred pounds per annum , and built ten alms-houses in the parish of Ingerstone or Ingatestone for twenty poor people , ten within the house and ten without , having every one twopence a day , a winter gown , two load of wood , and among them feeding for six kinewinter and summerand a chaplain to say
, , them service daily , as Holingshed in his Chronicle informs us . He died a Protestant in the year 1572 , and was buried in Ingatestone church in Essex , where a monument is erected to his memory . He left sums of money to be distributed among the poor in all his manors in Essex , Devonshire , Kent , and Somersetshire , and to the poor of the parish of St . Botolh without AldersgateLondon -and to
hosp , , pitals and the poor prisoners in London and Southwark . He was , - moreover , bountiful to his servants , bequeathing them a whole year ' s wages besides legacies . It appears that he had seven manors in Devonshire , nine in Essex , three in Somersetshire , two in Gloucestershire , one in Kent , one in Suffolk , and one in Dorsetshire ; all which " lie entails upon his son and heir Johnand the heirs male of his bod
, y ; and in default thereof , on the son and heir of his brother John Petre , of Torbrian in Devonshire . " He was twice married : by his first ¦ wife , daughter ' of Sir John Tyrrel of Warley in Essex , knight , he had a daughter married to Nicholas Wadham of Merrifteld in the county of Somerset , Esq . who having no issue by her , they were the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
surer of the court of first-fruits for life ; and in the fourth one of the commissioners to treat of peace with the French at Guisnes . He was also , in that reign , commissioned , with the Archbishop of Canterbury and others , in confidence of their sound knowledge , zealou 3 faith , innocency of life and behaviour , and readiness in the dispatch of affairs , to punish and correct all rectors , vicars , and other ecclesiasticsas well as laymen of what condition soeverwho shall despise
, , or speak evil of the book called " The Book of the Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments , and other rites and ceremonies of the Church , after the use of the Church of England ; " with power to imprison the guilty , and load them with irons if necessary or admit them to bail . Nevertheless he was so much in favour with Queen Mary that she made him , in the first year of her reign , her principal
secretary of state , and chancellor of the garter , with the fee of an hundred marks per annum ; but then perceiving that the re-establishirient of the Popish religion might endanger his possession of those abbey-lands which had been granted him by Henry VIII . he had interest enough to procure a dispensation from Pope Paul IV . for the retaining them ; " he affirming ( as it is expressed in the bull ) that
he was ready to employ them to spiritual uses . " Queen Mary entrusted him also with concluding the treaty of marriage between her and Philip archduke , of Austria . He was also some time principal secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth , and was one of her privy council till her death . ' She had likewise joined him with others in
several important commissions . He had been seven times employed ' in foreign embassies ; he augmented Exeter college in Oxford with lands to the value of an hundred pounds per annum , and built ten alms-houses in the parish of Ingerstone or Ingatestone for twenty poor people , ten within the house and ten without , having every one twopence a day , a winter gown , two load of wood , and among them feeding for six kinewinter and summerand a chaplain to say
, , them service daily , as Holingshed in his Chronicle informs us . He died a Protestant in the year 1572 , and was buried in Ingatestone church in Essex , where a monument is erected to his memory . He left sums of money to be distributed among the poor in all his manors in Essex , Devonshire , Kent , and Somersetshire , and to the poor of the parish of St . Botolh without AldersgateLondon -and to
hosp , , pitals and the poor prisoners in London and Southwark . He was , - moreover , bountiful to his servants , bequeathing them a whole year ' s wages besides legacies . It appears that he had seven manors in Devonshire , nine in Essex , three in Somersetshire , two in Gloucestershire , one in Kent , one in Suffolk , and one in Dorsetshire ; all which " lie entails upon his son and heir Johnand the heirs male of his bod
, y ; and in default thereof , on the son and heir of his brother John Petre , of Torbrian in Devonshire . " He was twice married : by his first ¦ wife , daughter ' of Sir John Tyrrel of Warley in Essex , knight , he had a daughter married to Nicholas Wadham of Merrifteld in the county of Somerset , Esq . who having no issue by her , they were the