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In 1531 he received instructions to proceed to the court of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], to try to persuade him to take a more favourable view of Henry's proposed divorce from [[Catherine of Aragon]], the emperor's aunt. With this was combined another commission, on which one of the king's agents, [[Stephen Vaughan (merchant)|Stephen Vaughan]], was already engaged. He was, if possible, to apprehend [[William Tyndale]]. Elyot was probably suspected, like Vaughan, of lukewarmness in carrying out the king's wishes, but was nevertheless blamed by [[Protestant]] writers. As ambassador Elyot had been involved in ruinous expense, and on his return he wrote unsuccessfully to Cromwell begging to be excused, on the grounds of his poverty, from serving as [[High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire]] for 1532.
He was one of the commissioners in the inquiry instituted by Cromwell prior to the suppression of the [[monastery|monasteries]] but he did not obtain any share of the spoils. There is little doubt that his known friendship for More militated against his chances of success, for in a letter addressed to Cromwell he admitted his friendship for More, but protested that he rated higher his duty to the king. [[William Roper (biographer)|William Roper]], in his ''Life of More'', says that Elyot was on a second embassy to Charles V in the winter of 1535-1536 and received the news of More's execution while at [[Naples]]. He had been kept in the dark by his own government, but heard the news from the emperor, or so Roper says, writing years later, but [[Raymond Wilson Chambers|R. W. Chambers]] writes that Roper had confused the timing of Elyot's ambassadorship, and of the emperor's
From 1539 to 1542 he represented the borough of [[Cambridge (UK Parliament constituency)|Cambridge]] in [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliament]]. He had purchased from Cromwell the manor of Carleton in Cambridgeshire, where he died.
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