The history of the life and times of Cardinal Wolsey, : Prime Minister to King Henry VIII ... . his Health was very much impaired, particu-larly his Eye-fight, which now greatly failed him,(and before his Death he was blind) he thereforethought proper to follicit, and accordingly obtainedhis Majeftys Permiflion to retire for a Time to hisDiocefan Palace to enjoy a pleafant Retreat from theNoife of Bufmefs and Worldly Affairs : And this hedid had taken a kind Leave of his old Friendfind Chaplain^ Wolfey, now Arehbifliop ofTork. Herehe had not been long before he determined, by theAdvic
The history of the life and times of Cardinal Wolsey, : Prime Minister to King Henry VIII ... . his Health was very much impaired, particu-larly his Eye-fight, which now greatly failed him,(and before his Death he was blind) he thereforethought proper to follicit, and accordingly obtainedhis Majeftys Permiflion to retire for a Time to hisDiocefan Palace to enjoy a pleafant Retreat from theNoife of Bufmefs and Worldly Affairs : And this hedid had taken a kind Leave of his old Friendfind Chaplain^ Wolfey, now Arehbifliop ofTork. Herehe had not been long before he determined, by theAdvice of his Friends, to Found a College. His firft Defign was to have founded a Monaftery,from which he. was perfuaded by Bifhop Oldham. Asfor Monafieries (fays the Bifhop) they have more alreadythan they are like long to keep. This Obfervation fboncaufed Bifhop Fox to change his Intention, and {ct a-bout Founding Corpus Chrifti College, which he en-dowed with Poffeffions to the yearly Value of 401 /.8 s. nd. and it has frnce produced many learnedMens and is now in a flourifhing Condition. In. , 7 << - 0/Cardinal WOLSET. 269 . In the Year 1522 he wai at the Expence of build-ing a Free School near the Caftle in Taunton, and aneat Houfe for the Schooimafter, of the like at Gran-tham% (where it was believed he was born) of Cove-ring the Choir at Winchejier, and the Preibitery andIdes adjoining •, of making a new Vault \ of newGlazing that Part of the Church % of building a Par-tition between the Preibitery and the faid Ifles; and,finally, of moving the Bones of feveral Princes and Pre-lates, that were depofited about the Cathedral, into hand-fome Monuments upon the Top of the new faid, Bifhop Oldham was a Man -.* ^,, , r -r^ • • 1 » r 1 Btpcp Oldham j or great Devotion -, tho lomewhat charader & in Speech, yet friendly in Deedand Adtion. He was remarkable for preferring theRights and Privileges of the Church, and for his Li-berality to the Vicars an
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