Venice, where he was treated with distinction. He died there about 1589. Very many of his letters are among the Harleian and Lansdowne manuscript collections at the British Museum. A selection of these was published in 1774, 4to, to illustrate two medals of Shelley preserved in the king's collection (now in the British Museum); these were engraved by James Basire, and published as frontispiece to the volume. Two of his letters to Henry VIII, complaining of his treatment of the order, were stolen from the government library at Malta soon after 1848. According to his own account, he also wrote a treatise in answer to a book by Nicholas Sanders, which came into the pope's hands, and brought him into suspicion. It does not seem to have been printed. Notes References Attribution: Endnotes: Lansd. MSS. xx. 43, xxxv. 42, xxxviii. 41, 44, 45, 47, 49, xl. 9, xlii. 18–20, xliii. 36, xlv. 5, 76, li. 10, cxv. 5–9; Harl. MSS. 286, arts. 34, 39, 40, 6164, art. 1, 6990, art. 7, 6992 art. 4, 6993 arts. 14, 15, 23; Letters of Sir Richard Shelley, 1774; Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Gairdner; Cal. State Papers, Dom. For. and Venetian series, passim; Acts of the Privy Council, ed. Dasent; Cal. Hatfield MSS.; Lit. Remains of Edward VI (Roxburghe Club); Camden's Elizabeth, s.a. 1560 and 1563; Sussex Archæological Collections, passim; Strype's Works, passim; Granger's Biogr. Hist. iv. 362–363; Dodd's Church Hist. ii. 57; Abbé Vertot's Knights of St. John, 1728, ii. 160–1; Whitworth Porter's Knights of Malta, p. 573; Morris's Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, i. 51; Lower's Sussex Worthies; Thomas Walker Horsfield's History of Lewes; History of the Rape of Bramber; Gent. Mag. 1785 ii. 713, 872, 1852 i. 517; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. viii. 192, xi. 179, 2nd ser. xii. 470, 3rd ser. i. l9, 59. 1510s births 1580s deaths Priors of Saint John of Jerusalem in England English MPs 1547–1552 English Roman Catholics 16th-century English diplomats