Read The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey (Pimlico) Online
Authors: Peter Gwyn
The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey (Pimlico) (139 page)
66
LP
, iii, 969.
67
CWM
, 5, p.718
68
LP
, iii, 1197.
69
LP
, iii, 1210, 1233-4.
70
Meyer, p.181 for a different view.
71
LP
, iii, 1218.
72
LP
, iii, 1233.
73
Oxford University, Reg. H, fo.60. For Cambridge see Mullinger, p.571. There has been considerable confusion about the university burnings. Following Chester,
Library Chronicle
, pp.69-71 my own belief is that none occurred, but if there was one in Cambridge it was certainly in 1521.
74
Pastor, viii, pp.17-36.
75
See p.147 ff. above
76
Ven. Cal
., iii, p.124 for Spinelli’s estimate, but more generally ibid, pp.121-5;
LP
, iii, 1275.
77
Fisher,
English Works
, pp.313, 347-8 for the quotations; see also Surtz,
Works and Days
, pp.302 ff.
78
Wilkins, iii, pp.690-2.; GRO MS 9531/10/fo.139; KCA DR c/R7/fo.107v.
79
Fisher,
English Works
, p.327.
80
For a good example of damning with faint praise see Elton,
Reform and Reformation
, pp.75-6, while a standard work on the English Reformation gives it a sentence; see Dickens,
English Reformation
, p.95.
81
LP
, iii, 1220, 1233.
82
Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, pp.110-16; 245 ff., 403 ff. is good on this.
83
LP
, iii, 1233;
CWM
, 5, pp.720-1.
84
Roper, p.67.
85
Quoted in Doernberg, p.19; see also Tjernagel, pp.9-10 and E. Gordon Duff, important for the book’s bibliographical history. For the presentation and and the pope’s reply see
LP
, iii, 1574, 1654, 1656.
86
Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, pp.115-17.
87
LP
, iii, 1574.
88
CWM
, 5, p.719.
89
Tjernagel, pp.17-22.
90
LP
, iv, 40, where misdated to 1524.
91
Very fully treated in
CWM
, 5, pp.715 ff.
92
Mitchell, pp.109-14
CWM
, 5, p.792.
93
Surtz,
Works and Days
is essential for Fisher’s writings.
94
LP
, iii, 1659 (2), 1772.
95
LP
, iii, 1450; E. Gordon Duff, pp.3-4.
96
LP
, iii, 1510, 1574.
97
Henry Ellis, 3 ser, i, pp.283-4 (
LP
, iii, 1760).
98
LP
, iii, 2714, 3025; iv, 2652, 2677, 2933.
99
St. P
, i, p.175 (
LP
, iv, 2445); see also
LP
, iv, 2371, 2420.
100
LP
, iv, 2446, quoted in Doernberg, p.56; see also
CWM
, 8, pp.1135-6.
101
For More’s writing on this theme see Thomas More,
Correspondence
, p.323 in his
Letter to Bugenhagen
, and
CWM
, 8, pp.56 ff., 483 ff. in his
Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer
. See also Cavendish, p.179-81 for Wolsey’s views.
102
CWM
, 8, pp.1068, 1159-10 for a good starting point to a complicated story.
103
Henry Ellis, 1 ser, i, pp.179-84 (
LP
, iv, 995), a most important letter, redated to 1526 in Chester,
HLQ
, 14, pp.214-5.
104
Hall, p.708 says that only two Hanse merchants abjured, but see Chester,
HLQ
, 14, pp.211-21 for five. For the raid see Kronenburg; for Fisher’s sermon see Surtz,
Works and Days
, pp.330-2.
105
Chester,
HLQ
, 14 p.221.
CWM
8, p.1160, for the suggestion that they first reached England in March.
106
CWM
, 8, pp.1161-2.
107
See Elton,
Studies
, i, 148; Marius, p.316.
108
Kronenberg, p.26.
109
LP
, iv, 1962 (1-5); for his personal presence see
LP
, iv, 1962 (5); Barnes,
HLQ
, 14, p.217.
110
GRO MS 9531/10/fos.130v-6, printed in Foxe, iv, app; Walker,
JEH
, 40 appeared too late to be assimilated here, but it needs to be consulted.
111
Sometimes Garret or Garrett.
112
LP
, iv, 4004, 4017, 4073, 4125, 4150, 4418, printed in Foxe, v, app.vi.
113
GRO MS 9531/10/fos.136v-8 for Garrard’s and Lome’s trials; Foxe, iv, pp.689-90, curiously not to be found now in Tunstall’s register.
114
LP
, iii, 1275; Chester,
HLQ
, 14, p.211.
115
Longland, fo.35 ff., not referred to in Bowker,
Henrician Reformation
, but see ibid, pp.57-64 for his concern about heresy.
116
Barlowe, p.120.
117
LP
, iv, 3960, transcribed in Arber, p.54.
118
LP
, iv, 2607; S. Thompson, ‘English and Welsh bishops’, p.127.
119
Reed, pp.165-6.
120
LP
, iv, p.2549.
121
Thomas More,
Correspondence
, pp.387-8; (
LP
, iv, 4028).
122
For biographical information and full transcripts of his letters see Hackett.
123
CWM
, 8, p.1068; Arber, pp.18 ff. For Rinck see
LP
, iv, 4810 his letter to Wolsey of 4 Oct. 1528.
124
The evidence in letters of West to Hackett and Rinck to Wolsey in Hackett, pp.173-5; Arber, pp.32-6 (
LP
, iv, 4693, 4810).
125
Ridley,
The Statesman and the Fanatic
, 168.
126
Hackett, p.169 (
LP
, iv, 4650), but for Harman episode as a whole see ibid, pp.155 ff.
127
LP
, iv, 5461.
128
The letters are not extant, but are referred to by Hackett in Hackett, p.167 (
LP
, iv, 4650).
129
LP
, iv, 4714, 5078, 5402.
130
Hackett, p.180 (
LP
, iv, 4714).
131
He was arrested in July 1528 and was out of prison the following April; see Hackett, pp.156, 251 (
LP
, iv, 4511, 5462). For the search see ibid, pp.173 ff. (
LP
, iv, 4693-4).
132
Hackett, pp.63-72 (
LP
, iv, 2797).
133
Hackett, pp.41-2 (
LP
, iv, 2649).
134
In writing thus I am to a great extent paraphrasing More; see especially Thomas More,
Correspondence
, p.441;
CWM
, 6, pp.284 ff., 508 ff;
CWM
, 8, pp.143 ff. For similar worries of Tunstall’s chaplain, Robert Ridley, in a letter to Henry Gold see
LP
, iv, 3960.
135
CWM
, 8, p.1379.
136
Foxe, v, p.417.
137
Admitted under interrogation at his trial in 1527; see GRO MS 9531/10/fos.130v.; Foxe, iv, app.vi.
138
CWM
, 6, p.268.
139
The evidence is difficult to interpret but see Chester,
Hugh Latimer
, pp.22 ff.
140
This from the only source for the interview, Ralph Morice’s near contemporary account; see BL Harleian 422, fos.84-7, printed in Foxe, vii, app.iv.
141
Tyndale’s work appeared in 1530, and thus after Wolsey’s fall. But since he expected Wolsey’s triumphant return, I hope the point being made holds.
142
In a letter to Tunstall; see Foxe, iv, p.638.
143
Thomson,
Later Lollards
, pp.227-36.
144
Foxe, vii, app.iv.
145
But see Chester,
Hugh Latimer
, p.36.
146
No record of his trial has survived but see Foxe, iv, p.586; v, p.27;
CWM
, 9, pp.119-20.
147
GRO MS 9531/10/fos136v-7.
148
LP
, iv, 4260.
149
Foxe, iv, pp.688-91; see also J.F. Davis, ‘Heresy and Reformation’, pp.269-71.
150
Foxe, v, app.vi (
LP
, 4073, 4175).
151
From his instructions to his archdeacons in Oct. 1526, quoted in Foxe, iv, p.667, but see GRO MS 9531/10/fo.45, where the date is 24th rather than 28th, but everybody produces a slightly different date!
