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==In Paris== Proceeding to Paris, he became tutor to [[Thomas Wynter]], reputed son of [[Cardinal Wolsey]]. He paid repeated visits to England, where he was well received by the king, and, after Wolsey's fall, he acted as one of [[Thomas Cromwell]]'s [[secret agent|agents]] in Paris. He was in England as late as 1534, and appears to have been [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Speldhurst]] in [[Kent]].<ref name="EB1911"/> In Paris he knew [[George Buchanan (humanist)|George Buchanan]], and found patrons in the cardinal [[Jean de Lorraine]] and [[Jean du Bellay]]. He was to have gone with du Bellay on his mission to Italy in 1535, but illness kept him in Paris. As soon as he recovered he set out on his journey, but at [[Avignon]], by the advice of his friend [[Antonio Bonvisi]] (d. 1558), he sought the patronage of the bishop of the diocese, the learned and pious [[Paul Sadolet]], who made him master in the school at [[Carpentras]], with a salary of seventy crowns. Volusenus paid frequent visits to [[Lyon]] (where [[Conrad Gesner]] saw him, still a young man, in 1540), probably also to Italy, where he had many friends, perhaps even to Spain. A letter addressed to him by Sadolet from Rome in 1546 shows that he had then resolved to return to Scotland, and had asked advice on the attitude he should adopt in the religious dissensions of the time. He died on the journey, however, at [[Vienne, Isère|Vienne]] in [[Dauphiné]], in 1546, or early in the next year.<ref name="EB1911"/>
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