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WADE (or WAAD), SIR WILLIAM (1546-1623)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 228 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WADE (or WAAD), See also:SIR See also:WILLIAM (1546-1623)  , See also:English states-See also:man and diplomatist, was the eldest son of Armagil See also:Wade (d . 1568), the traveller, who sailed with a party of adventurers for See also:North See also:America in 1536, and later became (1J47) one of the clerks of the privy See also:council in See also:London and a member of See also:parliament . See also:William Wade obtained his entrance into See also:official See also:life by serving William See also:Cecil, See also:Lord See also:Burghley, sending See also:information to this statesman from See also:Paris and from See also:Italy . He also passed some See also:time in See also:Strassburg; then in 1581 he became secretary to See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Walsingham and in 1583 a clerk of the privy council . He visited See also:Vienna, See also:Copenhagen and See also:Madrid on public business, and in 1585 he went to Paris, being waylaid and maltreated on his return near See also:Amiens by influential personages who disliked the See also:object of his See also:mission . In 1586 he went to Chartley and took See also:possession of See also:Mary See also:Stuart's papers, and in 1587 was again in See also:France . During the See also:remainder of See also:Elizabeth's reign Wade was much occupied in searching for See also:Jesuits and in discovering plots against the life of the See also:queen . See also:James I., who knighted him in 1603. employed him in similar ways, and he was fully occupied in unravelling the plots which marked the See also:early years of the new reign . For some time Wade was a member of parliament . He retired from public life in 1613, and died on the 21st of See also:October 1623 . Sir William was a shareholder in the See also:Virginia See also:company, and the Wades of Virginia claim descent from his See also:father .

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