Anthony Hussey

While sustaining this role, with that of Proctor of the Court of the Arches and other related ecclesiastical offices as a Notary public, he acted abroad as agent and factor for Nicholas Wotton (Dean of Canterbury and royal ambassador to the Emperor).

[38] But (despite that surprising imputation) progress was made, including the temporary imprisonment of three of Cranmer's six preachers, and with the effective intervention of Dr Thomas Legh matters were laid open,[39] and the King perceived the malice of the accusers.

[52] A letter from the Viscount Lisle (John Dudley) to William Paget of 7 August 1545, which includes a recommendation that Anthonye Hussye should captain the Small Gallye, speaks of him as "the gentleman that was one of the Roodes[53] and made means to serve the king", adding that he is "called a very hardy man and one that hath been brought up in the feat of the sea."

As Registrar, Hussey supervised the contents of Cranmer's archiepiscopal register, which he was careful to preserve after his master's death, and which Diarmaid MacCulloch has called "a central witness to the entire early Reformation".

[56] At the consecration of Ponet (which took place at Lambeth Palace on 29 June 1550) Cranmer decreed that he would write to the Archdeacon of Canterbury concerning the "investiture, installation and inthronization" of the bishop as was customary.

[59] Early in Edward's reign, Hussey was put under notice of scrutiny by the Lord Protector Somerset, who accused him of injustice through slackness, at least in part concerning a judgement made in the Court of Admiralty.

[1] The Company of the German or Hanseatic Merchants, which by ancient privileges had their London operation out of their Kontor, the Stillyard or Easterlings Hall in Thames Street,[64] had, in recent increments, by 1552 engrossed much of the woollen trade in England.

[67] On 23 February 1551/52 the Council decreed that the German merchants, whose name, number and nation were unknown, were not a properly constituted Company, and by certain practises had forfeited their Liberties: the contract was therefore broken, and they must trade with England on the same terms as other foreigners.

[70] As new opportunities immediately arose, Hussey, with many other investors, became involved in the project advanced by Sebastian Cabot to send an expedition in search of a Northeast Passage or northern sea route to Cathay.

The voyage led by Sir Hugh Willoughby, Stephen Borough and Richard Chancellor which departed in April 1553 had been sponsored by "certain grave citizens of London... resolved upon a new and strange Navigation," paying £25 apiece for membership.

Laurence Hussey, Anthony's son, was apprehended on 20 July carrying letters from Jane Grey's Council in the Tower to the Duke of Northumberland:[74] at the time of the King's funeral, he was a Groom of the Chamber.

[1] In October 1554, at his house in Paternoster Row in London (but in his absence), Dr Henry Harvey and John Incent the notary issued in Hussey's name a form of restitution for a priest who had married under the reformed authority but now put aside his wife to continue in his vocation.

[77] His son Lawrence having been presented by Sir Andrew Judd to the prebend of Bishopstone (Salisbury diocese) in December 1554,[78] in January 1554/55 Anthony Hussey was appointed one of the actuaries[79] in Stephen Gardiner's condemnation of Bishop Hooper.

Killingworth's letter dated 27 November 1555 describes the success of their dealings with the Tsar,[90] who addressed the grant of his first special privileges to the Company, as to Cabot, the Consuls and Assistants, to Queen Mary.

[74] On 21 February 1556/57 the Council issued instructions to the officers of the Wardrobe to deliver "a bed of estate with furniture and hangings",[96] and to the Jewel House for "two pairs of grete white silver pottes", to Mr Hussey, Governour of the Merchauntes Adventurers, or three of his deputies, for the chamber of the ambassador during his visit.

[98] The Company's letter to the agents in Colmogro explained that Master Anthony Hussey had given to Jenkinson a commission for further travelling, and that they should deliver to him some "painefull young men" (i.e. painstaking) to continue in search of the route to Far Cathay.

When Thomas Mowntayne fled to Antwerp and lived there for eighteen months to avoid persecution, "than commys over mr. Hussy beynge than guvernor of the Inglyshe nasyon, and yt was gyven owte that he wolde sodeynly shype and send awaye ynto Inglande al soche as were come over for relygion, he namynge me hymselve for one..."[2] In September 1556 Hussey obtained permission from the Select Council to return to London for six weeks, reporting that all the members of his Company were Catholics apart from four, against whom the Queen wished to proceed.

[110][111] At the beginning of January 1557/58 attention turned fully to the loss of Calais, and the Council instructed the Lord Privy Seal to summon Mr Hussey, "and to wyll him to call suche marchauntes as he shall thinke mete to consulte and consyder amonge themselfes what porte is moste meteste for the common passage oute of this realme unto Flaundres", and to declare their opinions unto him.

[112] There followed a letter from the Council to Hussey, considering that the ambassadors of the Stedes (the Hanse towns) had now departed, requiring him in the Queen's name to use all means at his disposal to find whether they went directly home to their country, or if they went by way of the King's Majesty.

"[113] The death of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor to Philip and Mary, on 12 November 1555 made way for Thomas Cranmer to be deprived of the See of Canterbury officially on the following day.

[116][117] The pallium was presented to Pole in his Cardinal's robes at St Mary-le-Bow church (the Canterbury peculiar home to the Arches Court, in Cheapside), Bonner and Thirlby officiating, in the presence of dignitaries, witnessed by Hussey, Argall and Incent.

Among various bequests (below) he restores a diamond to his "especiall good ladie" Dame Blanche Forman, as a remembrance of "the paines and travaile that I have taken in her affaires longe tyme paste":[123] many of her legacies, in 1563, were dependent upon her "suit in Flanders".

][14] It therefore appears that the appointment did take effect, and may have continued for almost 8 months under Reginald Pole and perhaps well into the year following the accession of Queen Elizabeth, before he died in October 1559 leaving no issue.

[142][143] On 9 September Elizabeth, in her right under the Act of Supremacy, sent a commission to bishops Cuthbert Tunstall (Durham), Gilbert Bourne (Bath and Wells), David Pole (Peterborough) and Anthony Kitchin (Llandaff), and to William Barlow and John Scory (who had been deprived of their bishoprics by Mary but were now newly elected), ordering them to confirm and consecrate Parker as Archbishop.

[156] The Consecration of Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury took place in the chapel of Lambeth Palace on 17 December 1559, at which Barlow, Scory, Coverdale and Hodgkins were the four bishops required by the Statute to officiate, and in the presence of bishops-elect Edmund Grindal (London), Richard Cox (Ely) and Edwin Sandys (Worcester), and of Anthony Hussey Esquire, principal and primary Registrar of the said Archbishop, Thomas Argall Esquire, Registrar of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Thomas Willett and John Incent, Notaries, and several others.

"[160] In Parker's Register, a note is interpolated after the title page noting the deaths of Anthony Hussey and of Archbishop Parker:"Primo die mensis Junii Anno d'ni 1560 prefatus Anthonius Huse mortem obijt, cui successit Johannes Incent in officio Reg'rariatus predict"[On the first day of the month of June A.D. 1560 the foresaid Anthony Huse died, whom John Incent succeeded in the said office of Registrar.]

The inscriptions were recorded by Anthony Mundy:"Hic situs est Antonius Huse, Armiger, Londini natus, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, atque Capitulis de Pauli Londinen.

Qui aliquot annos Judicis causarum Maritimarum officio integrè functus, ac etiam in Magistratorum Curiæ Cancellariæ confessum cooptatus, vergente demum ætate ad Præfectum Collegiorum Mercatorum Angliæ, tam apud Belgas, quàm apud Moscovitas, et Rhutenos commercia exercentium accitus, lingua facundus, memoria tenax, ingenio, prudentia, doctrinaque pollens, morum comitate et probitate gratiosus, Laurentio, Gulielmo, Gilberto, et Ursula liberis, ex Katharina conjuge procreatis, non infelix, sexagesimo tertio ætatis Anno è vita excessit, Kalendis Junii, An.

[123] To his fellow notary John Incent he left £20 in money, "and the jointe patente of myne office in Powles, willing hym to bynde upp in due form the register of the late Archbushop Cranmer, together with all books, etc., for the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury".

[165] A mid-16th century carving of the arms in stone is re-set into the more recent walls of Legh Manor in Cuckfield, Sussex, the seat of John and Mary Hussey, with the name "huʃee" in black-letter above it.