Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Mars" to "Matteawan"

part in procuring the proclamation of Mary as queen. Mason now received

fresh tokens of royal favour, being confirmed in all his secular, though not in his ecclesiastical, offices; and in 1553 he was appointed English ambassador at the court of the emperor Charles V., of whose abdication at Brussels in October 1555 he wrote a vivid account. He took a prominent share in the administr...