Thomas Mason

Thomas Mason (1580–1619?) was an English clergyman and writer.

Life On his own account, his father was the heir of Sir John Mason. Mason was admitted at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 29 November 1594, matriculated on 7 January 1595. Its dedications to George Abbot and Sir Edward Coke probably proved their value in getting this protection, for a book that reflected typical political prejudices of the time after the Gunpowder Plot. About ten years later Helen Mason's attempt to stretch the monopoly to cover a new abridgement of Foxe's work ran into a legal rebuff.

Works He published: Christ's Victorie over Sathan's Tyrannie, London, 1615; a condensed version of John Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs,’ with extracts from other works. The running title is ‘The Acts of the Church.’ An enlarged edition appeared in 1747–8 in 2 vols., edited by "Rev. Mr. Bateman, Rector of St. Bartholomew the Great", i.e. Richard Thomas Bateman. A Revelation of the Revelation … whereby the Pope is most plainly declared and proved to be Anti-Christ, London, 1619. or third wife, in 1627. Richard Dummer married Thomas and Helen's daughter (Mary) Jane.