ordered by the council to announce Edward VI's accession. On 8 May 1549, he was made a commissioner to visit the university of Oxford, and before June 1550 was knighted. In 1550 Morison replaced Sir Philip Hoby as Ambassador to the Emperor. Setting off in July, he went with Roger Ascham as his secretary, the two reading Greek every day together. His despatches to the council were long, but Morison found time to travel in Germany with Ascham, who published in 1553 an account of their experiences in A Report of the Affaires of Germany. The emperor frequently remonstrated through Morison about the treatment of the Princess Mary; and he did not altogether like Morison, who was in the habit reading Bernard Ochino's Sermons or Machiavelli to his household 'for the sake of the language.' After Edward's death, Morison was revoked as ambassador. On 5 August 1553 he and Sir Philip Hoby received a recall for a political gaffe: they had alluded to Guilford Dudley as king in a letter to the council. The next year Morison withdrew to Strasburg with Sir John Cheke and Anthony Cooke, and spent his time in study under Peter Martyr, whose patron he had been at Oxford. He was at Brussels early in 1555, and is said also to have passed into Italy, but he died at Strasburg on 17 March 1556. Morison died a rich man, and had begun to build the mansion of Cashiobury in Watford, Hertfordshire. Works Morison's works include: 'A lamentation in whiche is shewed what ruyne and destruction cometh of seditious rebellyon,' London, 1536, an indictment of the Lincolnshire Rising. 'A remedy for sedition,' London, 1536, an attack on the Pilgrimage of Grace. ‘Apomaxis Calumniarum,’ London, 1537, an attack on Cochlæus, who had written against Henry VIII, and who retorted in 'Scopa in Araneas Ricardi Morison Angli,' Leipzig, 1538. A translation of the 'Epistle' of Sturmius, London, 1538. 'An Invective ayenste the great detestable vice, Treason,' London, 1539, in response to the Exeter Conspiracy. 'An exhortation to styrre all Englyshe men to the defence of theyr countreye,' London, 1539. 'The Strategemes, Sleyghtes, and Policies of Warre, gathered together by S. Julius Frontinus,' London, 1539; translation of a work on tactics by Sextus Julius Frontinus. A translation of the 'Introduction to Wisdom' by Juan Luis Vives, London, 1540 and 1544, dedicated to Gregory Cromwell. He is also said to have