Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ryingout the wishes of the kingand to increasing the great-ness of the country. Thoughhe lived in a state of greatmagnificence in his palacesat Whitehall and HamptonCourt, he was thoughtful ofthe poor and tried to do forthem what was just and the people, however, was he popular. The nobles werejealous of his power, and scorned his humble origin; thepeople disliked him because he taxed them heavily inorder to raise money for the king. .His eno
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ryingout the wishes of the kingand to increasing the great-ness of the country. Thoughhe lived in a state of greatmagnificence in his palacesat Whitehall and HamptonCourt, he was thoughtful ofthe poor and tried to do forthem what was just and the people, however, was he popular. The nobles werejealous of his power, and scorned his humble origin; thepeople disliked him because he taxed them heavily inorder to raise money for the king. .His enormous power,too, made him haughty and arrogant. The Venetian am-bassador wrote home that when he first came to England,Wolsey would say, His Majesty will do so and so; a littlelater he would say, We shall do so and so; and finallyhe said, / shall do so and so. 117. The Renaissance.—Henry was interested not only instate(;raft, but in the wonderful new learning that wasspreading over the world. In 1153, the year that the Hun-dred Years War closed, the Turks captured learned Greeks lived in this city, and they went away. Ca:(Di\al WolseyWith neither the nobility 120 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [1521 to Italy, especially to Florence. Long before Csesar went toBritain, the Greeks were a remarkable nation. They hadgreat poets and historians and philosophers, and theirsculptors did finer work than any one has done centuries people had forgotten all this. When theGreeks came to Florence and taught the Florentines to readtheir language, men began to realize what valuable old booksthere were in the world. This new interest in the oldknowledge is called the Renaissance, or the new spread rapidly over the continent; for printing hadcome at just the right time to help people to procurethe old manusciipts in book form. England soon be-came interested, for English scholars, like Colet, went toItaly to study, and brought books and knowledge backwith them to thei
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