sentences:  He took Perotti with him and afterwards procured him a post in the household of Cardinal Bessarion.Grey's devotion to humanism and his patronage of learned men naturally found favour in the eyes of Pope Nicholas V. So early as 1450 the latter sought to obtain for him the bishopric of Lincoln, and failing to accomplish this, on 21 June 1454, on the elevation of Bishop Bourchier to the see of Canterbury, nominated him to the vacant bishopric of Ely.In the bull of provision Grey is described as apostolic notary and referendary.