[1] In July 1533, Mont and Vaughan, another of Cromwell's men, were sent by Henry VIII to Germany to report on the political situation there.
Their mission was to the German princes, to whom, the king said, they had to declare the whole progress of his great cause of matrimony, the intolerable injuries done him by the pope, and the means by which he intended to maintain his just cause.
[1] In July 1535, he was instructed with Dr. Simon Heynes to go unofficially into France, and there to counteract the influence which the French were bringing to bear on Germany; above all to invite Philipp Melanchthon to England.
Mont seems to have been skilful in answering unpleasant questions, and managed to reassure the Germans when in 1539 they were disturbed by Henry's refusal to allow the priests to marry.
[2] Early in Edward VI's reign, he was living at Strasbourg, and he continued to act as agent, going on one occasion as ambassador to the senate of Zurich ; his pension was also paid regularly.
An interesting account by him of the progress of Lutheranism, written from Strasburg on 10 October 1549 to the Duke of Somerset, was printed in Troubles connected with the Prayer Book of 1549.