In 1561 the queen in a letter to Sir Thomas Gresham promises to befriend his secretary Gilpin in any reasonable suit, and he would seem to have shortly afterwards become a salaried servant of the English government.
[1] He handled English diplomatic affairs on an informal basis in the period 1579 to 1582, while Secretary of the Merchant Adventurers.
He carried with him an autographed letter written by the Queen stating: At the end of his life he supported the author John Dickenson, employing as secretary at The Hague.
[3] His death is announced in a letter to Dudley Carleton, dated 2 October 1602, which mentions the difficulty of finding a successor.
[1] Gilpin published a translation of the Apiarium Romanum (1571) by Philip von Marnix, seigneur de St. Aldegonde.