At this time he was practising in Cardinal Wolsey's legatine court, and during the next few years he occasionally acted as the legate's commissary, and was also employed in visiting cathedral chapters and monasteries to procure the election of candidates favoured by his master.
A report of the pope's death, and other occurrences, caused these arrangements to be altered, and Stephen Gardiner, who had been recalled from Rome and met the new ambassadors at Lyons, returned to his post, and Knight and Benet came back to England.
He was also commissioned to treat for a peace between Francis I and Charles V, and for liberation of the French king's sons, who were detained as hostages for their father in Spain.
Meanwhile, the act prohibiting appeals to Rome had been pushed through parliament, and in May of the same year Thomas Cranmer's sentence dissolving the king's marriage had been pronounced at Dunstable Priory.
He travelled homewards in company with Edmund Bonner, afterwards bishop of London, and Sir Edward Carne, but never reached England, dying at Susa in Piedmont on 26 September 1533.
[2] The ecclesiastical benefices and dignities held by him were as follows : canon of Salisbury, 6 April 1526; prebendary of Ealdland, London, 26 Nov. 1526 ; advowson of the next prebend in St. Stephen's, 28 Feb. 1528 ; next presentation of Highhungar, London diocese, 12 Dec. 1528 ; archdeacon of Dorset, 20 Dec. 1530 ; advowson of Bamack church, Northamptonshire, which he intended to bestow on his brother, 21 April 1533 ; a prebend in Southwell; and the churches of Marnehull, Dorsetshire ; Aston, Hertfordshire ; and Sutton, Surrey.