In 1529 John Gage (age 49) was elected MP Sussex.

In 1539 John Gage (age 59) was elected MP Sussex.

In 1542 John Gage (age 62) was elected MP Sussex.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 05 Aug 1553. The v day of August cam in to the Towre my lord Ferrys by .... at ix of the cloke, and so whent he a-for the consell, and so with-in a nowre he was delevered unto ser John Gage (age 73), constabull of the Towre, and so he had the custody of my lord for that tyme.

Wriothesley's Chronicle 17 Aug 1554. 17 Aug 1554. The 17 of August^a the King (age 27) and Queen (age 38) came by water from Richmond in the after noone, and landed at my Lord Chancellors stayers in St. Marye Overies, and there had a banquett in the Lord Chauncellors (age 71) howsse [Map], and then passed throughe the parke to the howse at St. Georges, of which Sir John Gage, Lord Chamberlayne to the Queene (age 74), had the keepinge, and there lay that night and dyned there the next daye.

Note a. The authorities differ widely as to this date. The Grey Friars' Chronicle (p. 91 ) says: "They came not unto London tyll it was the 18th day of Angnst, and then came hothe unto the place in Sothwarke, and lay there that nyght, and the 19th day came into London." And Stow (p. 625): "The 11 of August, the King and Queene remooued to Richmond, from thence by water to Southwarke, &c. And the next day, heing the 12 of August, they rode through Southwarke oner the bridge, and so through London, &c." While Baker's Chronicle reads: "The eleventh of August they remoued to Richmond, the seven-and-twentieth to Suffolk Place in Southwark, and the next day to London," &c. (p. 342).

History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk. 1555. At the commencement of Edward's reign Sir John Gage (age 75) assisted at the council; but Somerset prevailing, he retired from the board, and was afterward dis placed from his office of Comptroller, which was given to Sir Anthony Wingfield. He appears not to have attended the council again until the day after the secret meeting at Ely House, when, joining Southampton, then the avowed leader of the Catholic party, he signed the declaration against the Protector. Dudley, who now acquired the ascendancy, was found to be equally a favourer of the reformed church; upon which Southampton and Sir John Gage, on the same day, resigned their seats in the council. Gage and Dudley had both formed alliances with the Guldeford family, one having married the daughter of Sir Richard Guldeford, the other, the daughter of Sir Edward, his younger brother. Nevertheless, a few days before the death of King Edward, at the moment when Dudley, aiming at the crown for his daughter-in - law, the Lady Jane Gray, placed her in the Tower, as well in the affectation of royal state, as for personal security, Gage was super seded in the command of that fortress; which had been conferred on him for life: a fact strongly illustrative of his principles.

On 25 Apr 1556 John Gage (deceased) was buried at West Firle Church Firle, East Sussex.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 25 May 1556. The xxv of Aprell was bered lord chamberlayne Gage (deceased) to the quen, with ij haroldes, with a standard, .. [banners of] armes and iiij of emages, and with a hersse and ij [white branches,] ij dossen of stayffes, and viij dosen of skochyons; bered at (blank)

Note. P. 105. Funeral of sir John Gage, K.G. The imperfect paragraph in this page probably relates to the funeral of sir John Gage, K.G. who died 18 April, 1556. He was buried at Firle in Sussex, where a monument with recumbent effigies of himself and his wife Philippa, daughter of sir Richard Guilford, K.G. still remains. See an engraving of it in Gage's History of Hengrave, 4to. 1822, and also a portrait and memoir of Sir John.