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a 16th-century controversialist and ballad writer. Chamberlain and receiver, ct. gen. surveyors of the King’s lands by 1545; King’s plumber in 1547. A popular ballad, ‘The Hunt is up’, ascribed to Grey in The Arte of English Poesie (1589), was known by 1537 and in the next year appeared Grey’s detailed attack on papist superstitions, ‘The Fantassie of Idolatrie’, which included a reference to Reading among places of pilgrimage and which was written under the aegis of Cromwell.

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