In 1532 he was in the commission of the peace for Huntingdonshire , and in 1534 in the commission of sewers for the same county . In 1531 he was appointed Serjeant-at-law , and on 2 January 1535 was promoted to be King 's serjeant . In 1536 he prosecuted the rebels in the west , and during the northern rebellion was one of those appointed to reside in Cambridgeshire , and to be responsible for order there . In December 1540 he received a commission from the Privy Council to inquire into charges of sedition alleged against Thomas Goodrich , Bishop of Ely for having participated in translating a work by Philip Melanchthon . In 1539 he was granted ( as a result of the Dissolution of the Monasteries ) the property later known as Anglesey Abbey , together with the whole of its estate at Bottisham which he had previously held on lease . An act of parliament , 34 – 35 Hen . VIII ( 1542 – 43 ) , c. 24 , was passed to confirm to him and his heirs the ' Shire manor ' of Burlewas or Burdeleys in Cambridgeshire and lands at Madingley , subject to an annual charge for the payment of the knights of the shire . In addition to this property it appears , from grants in the Augmentation office , that he received portions of the church lands at Girton and Moor Barns in Madingley . On 4 November 1545 he was knighted , was next day appointed a judge of the common pleas , and became a member of the Council of the North in 1545
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Pilgrimage of Grace
John Hynde