Early Life
Mason was born in Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), southern England. He was educated at Abingdon School, part of the local abbey in his native town, where his uncle, Thomas Rowland, was abbot. Later, he went to All Souls College, Oxford and was ordained a priest. He was ordained an acolyte in 1521 and, later that year, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls and admitted to the BA degree, and in 1525 he incepted MA.
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