Background
On his own account, he was the grandson of Sir John Mason.
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Thomas Mason
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He may not have graduated. There is possible confusion with another Thomas Mason at Magdalen of the period.
Career
Mason was admitted at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 29 November 1594, matriculated on 7 January 1595. From 1614 to 1619, Mason held the vicarage of Odiham in Hampshire, and probably died around 1620. Its dedications to George Abbot and Sir Edward Coke probably proved their value in getting this protection, for a book that reflected typical political prejudices of the time after the Gunpowder Plot.
About ten years later Helen Mason"s attempt to stretch the monopoly to cover a new abridgement of Foxe"s work ran into a legal rebuff.
Richard Dummer married Thomas and Helen"s daughter (Mary) Jane.
