The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

A Memoryall of such Communication as my Lorde Legatts Grace had with the Queenes Almoner.--Containing a circumstantial Account of Queen Katherine's Objections to have her Cause...

to break horses with. A farrier's _brake_ was a machine to confine or trammel the legs of unruly horses. An antient instrument of torture was also called _a brake_; and a thorny...

There be two primates, or arch-bishops throughout England and Wales, Canterburie and Yorke, both metropolitans, York of England, Canterburie of all England, for so their titles...

"The following Letter (says Mr. Ellis), though mutilated, presents a genuine picture of one of the last interviews with which Wolsey was favoured by his Sovereign. It is dated o...

MONSEIGNEUR, depuis les lettres du Roy & les aultres vostres que je pensoye sur l'heure envoyer, cette depesche a estée retardé jusques à présent, parce qu'il a fallu faire & re...

Goyng this day out of my pue to sey masse, your lettres datyd yesternygth at London wer delyveryd unto me; by the contynue wherof I undyrstand, that the kyng's hyhnes, of hys ex...

Thys ys to advertyse you apon my Lord of Norfolk and the kyngs counsell depart[_inge_] from the Towre I went before the quene in to hyr lodgyng, & [_then she_] sayd unto me, M....

Rotchfort from my lady hys wyf, and the message was now more . . . . . se how he dyd; and also she wold humly sut unto the kyngs hy[_nes_] . . . . for hyr husband; and so he gaf...

_From the Earl of Northumberland, addressed "To his beloved Cosyn Thomas Arundel, one of the Gentlemen of my Lord Legates prevy chambre." It was written soon after the death of...

Aftyr my moste herty commendacions I pray yow at the reverens of God to helpe, that expedicion be usyd in my persuts, the delay wherof so replenyshyth my herte with hevynes, tha...

After my mooste herty recommendations, these shal be to thanke you for the greate humanite, lovyng & gentil recule, that ye have made unto the poore Provost of Beverly: & specia...

The quene hathe meche desyred to have here in the closet the sacarments, & also hyr amner who she supposeth to be Devet; for won owre she ys determyned to dy, and the next owre...

Mr. Ellis has printed this letter in its mutilated condition; I have ventured to supply the _lacunæ_ from the copy in Burnet's History of the Reformation, vol. i. p. 55. Burnet...

Aftyr my moste herty recommendations, with lycke thanks for your goodnes towards me, thes shal be to advertyse yow that I have beyn informyd by my trusty frend Thomas Cromwell t...

After my mooste harty recommendations, these shal be to desire, & mooste effectuelly to pray you to be good maister & friende unto me, concernyng the uncharitable sute of Strang...

MY LORD, after my most humble recommendations this shall be to gyve unto your grace as I am most bownd my humble thanks for the gret payn & travelle that your grace doth take in...

Thys day I was with the kyng's grace and declared the petysyons of my Lord of Rochford, wherin I was answred. Sir, the sayd lord meche desyreth to speke with you, weche towchet...

Thys shalbe to advertyse you I have resayved your lett^r wherin yo[_u wolde_] have strangerys conveyed yowt of the Towre and so thay be by the [_meanis_] of Richard Gressum, & W...

MY LORD, in my most humblyst wyse that my powuer hart can thynke I do thanke your grace for your kind letter, and for youer rych and goodly present, the whyche I shall never be...

This shalbe to advertyse yow that here is myche communycacion that noman will confesse any thyng agaynst her, but allonly Marke of any actuell thynge. Wherfore (in my folishe co...

Myn own good mastyr secretary, albeit I am in such altiration and indisposition of my hede & body, by the meansse of my dayly sorowe & hevynesse, that I am fen omit to writ any...

I beseche you as ye love me and wyl evyr do any thyng for me, repare hyther thys day as sone as the parlement ys brokyn up, leyng aparte all thyngs for that tyme; for I wold nat...

M^R SECRETARY, This shall be to signifie unto you that I perceive by Sir Raynold Carnaby, that there is supposed a precontract between the queen and me; wherupon I was not only...

_Lettre de M. de Bellay Evesque de Bayonne à M. le Grant Maistre, 17 Oct. 1529._--Containing an interesting Picture of the Cardinal in his Troubles, and desiring the Intercessio...

_Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, to his Bedfellow and Cosyn Thomas Arundel._--Complains of Injuries received at the Hands of Cardinal Wolsey. Humble Solicitations for his F...