Diplomat and dean of Canterbury and York. he became vicar of Boughton Malherbe, Sutton Valence and later of Ivychurch, Kent, and entered the service of Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London. He arrange the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves and the union of Protestant princes which was to be the complement of this union. He became the first dean of Canterbury and in 1544 dean of York and held the positions in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. In his position as diplomat, he went to the Netherlands, and for the next year or two he had much intercourse with the emperor Charles V, where he helped to conclude the treaty of peace between England and France in 1546, and was resident ambassador in France from 1546 to 1549. One of his last duties was in 1560, when he signed the treaty of Edinburgh on behalf of Elizabeth I.
Diplomat and dean of Canterbury and York. he became vicar of Boughton Malherbe, Sutton Valence and later of Ivychurch, Kent, and entered the service of Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London. He arrange the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves and the union of Protestant princes which was to be the complement of this union. He became the first dean of Canterbury and in 1544 dean of York and held the positions in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. In his position as diplomat, he went to the Netherlands, and for the next year or two he had much intercourse with the emperor Charles V, where he helped to conclude the treaty of peace between England and France in 1546, and was resident ambassador in France from 1546 to 1549. One of his last duties was in 1560, when he signed the treaty of Edinburgh on behalf of Elizabeth I.
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