of Tunstall’s goods, in April 1552 he brought certain accusations against the Countess of Sussex and was himself instructed to examine her in the Tower, and on 31 May following he was commissioned to procure Paget’s signature to the articles against him (ib. 1550-2, pp. 82, 324, 449, 1552-4 pp.20, 65).
The last mention of him as clerk occurs on 13 June 1553, and there can be little doubt that he lost his office on Queen Mary’s accession. He also lost his seat in parliament, and possibly a post in the customs which he had bought, and of which, as he subsequently complained to Cecil, he was deprived without compensation. In 1554 he was, however, granted by the crown the manor of Milton Grange, Oxfordshire. He also acquired lands in Kentish Town and at Lydd, Kent, and subsequently leased Belsize, Hampstead, which he made his home, from the dean and chapter of St. Paul’s. On 17 Dec. 1555 he was summoned to account for 800l. paid him by Sir Andrew Judd. Waad does not appear to have been restored to the clerkship of the council on the accession of Elizabeth; but on 15 April 1559 he was sent on a mission to the Duke of Holstein. He was instructed to seek increased facilities for English merchants in the duke’s dominions, to report on his relations with the free cities in his duchy, to offer Elizabeth’s aid in repressing the attempts of the said ‘stades’ to recover their liberties and to suggest ‘some further intelligence’ between the duke and England for the purpose of maintaining the Augsburg confession (Harl. MS. 36, No. 15; Addit. MS. 5935, f. 198; Cal. State Papers, For. 1558-1559, Nos. 531, 541). In June 1562 he was sent to Rye to muster six hundred men for service at Havre, and to collect information about the movements of French parties and the readiness of the Huguenots to accept English help. In December he requested a grant of the salt marshes between Lydd and the mouth of the Camber, with license to enclose them. In 1566 he was engaged in examining at the Tower Cornelius de Alneto or Lannoy, an alchemist who had failed to redeem his promise of manufacturing gold for the queen’s service (Hatfield MSS. vol. i. passim; Cal. State Papers, Dom. i. 275-7).
Waad died at Belsize on 20 Jun 1568, and was buried in Hampstead church, where an alabaster monument, with a long inscription was erected to his memory by his son William. Owing to the rebuilding of Hampstead church in 1745 and three subsequent restorations, no trace of the monument remains. His will was proved in the prerogative court of the archbishop of Canterbury (Reg. 6 Lyon). He was twice married; first, to Anne, daughter of Thomas Marbury or Merbury, haberdasher of London, and widow of one Bradley, by whom he had issue three children; secondly, to Alice, daughter of Richard Patten (d. 1536), widow of Thomas Searle, and sister of William Patten [q. v.], the historian of Somerset’s expedition into Scotland. By her Waad had issue seventeen children. All his children by his first wife and eleven by his second wife predeceased him. The eldest surviving son was Sir William Waad [q. v.] The Wades of Virginia claim to be descended from Armagil.
Besides the ‘Observations’ on his travels attributed to him, Waad was author of:
- ‘The Distresses of the Commonwealth, with the Means to remedy them,’ an eleaborate treatise preserved at the record office (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1547-80, p. 119).
- ‘Decastichon de receptione ducis Somerset a Londinensibus,’ printed by Patten in his ‘Expedicion,’ London, 1548, 4to.
- ‘Carmen in obitum Suffolciensium fratrum,’ printed in the collection of verses on the death of the dukes of Suffolk in 1552. He was also a good Spanish scholar (Cal. State Papers, For. 1563, No. 545).
[Transcripts of collections on the Wade family by Stuart C. Wade of New York, kindly lent by the President of Magdalen Coll, Oxford; Cal. State Papers, Dom. and For.; Acts of the Privy Council, ed. Dasent; Cal. Hatfield MSS.; Ashmole MS. 835; Official Return of Members of Parl.; Literary Remains of Edward VI (Roxburghe Club); Narratives of the Reformation (Camd. Soc.); Fuller’s Worthies, iii. 202; Woods Athenæ Oxon. i. 360; Strype’s Works (general index, where he is confused with his son); Tanner’s Bibl. P. 744; Norden’s Chorogr. Descr. Com. Middlesex, 1593; Park’s Topogr. and Natural Hist. of Hampstead; Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 153; Froude’s Hist. of England; Alexander Brown’s Genesis of U.S.A.; Foster’s Alumni Oxon. 1500-1714; Notes and Queries, 8th ser. ix. 247, 251, x. 376, 524.]
WAAD, Sir WILLIAM (1546–1623), clerk of the council, diplomatist, and lieutenant of the Tower, born in 1546, was the eldest son of Armagil Waad [q. v.], by his second wife, Alice, sister of William Patten [q. v.] Both his parents died in 1568, and William succeeded to the family property, his father’s sons by his first wife having predeceased him. In 1571 he was admitted a student of Gray’s Inn, and a few years later, doubtless with a view to entering the service of government, he began travelling on the continent. In July 1576 he was residing
