. Historical portraits ... uently became one of the greatest .pluralists that ever would be futile to attempt to enumerate the livings and smallpreferments which he held at different times, but he does not appearto have performed any ecclesiastical duty or office in any of 1507 he came to Court as Henry VIIs chaplain and waspatronized by Richard Fox, the statesman Bishop of Winchester;he was employed on one or two diplomatic missions by Henry VII,and, just before that Kings death, became Dean of Lincoln. Hemust have been known to Henry VIII before his accession to thethrone, f
. Historical portraits ... uently became one of the greatest .pluralists that ever would be futile to attempt to enumerate the livings and smallpreferments which he held at different times, but he does not appearto have performed any ecclesiastical duty or office in any of 1507 he came to Court as Henry VIIs chaplain and waspatronized by Richard Fox, the statesman Bishop of Winchester;he was employed on one or two diplomatic missions by Henry VII,and, just before that Kings death, became Dean of Lincoln. Hemust have been known to Henry VIII before his accession to thethrone, for on that event he at once became the new Kings almonerand soon afterwards Canon of Windsor. From that moment till1527 his influence with Henry was increasing and became , or Wulcy, as he always wrote himself, appears tohave believed that he possessed a special genius for foreign politics,and that he could make England, in virtue of the great treasuresaccumulated by Henry VII and the riches which she derived. CARDINAL WOLSEY From the drawing attributed to Jacques le Boucq of Artoisin the Library of the town of Arras Fate p. 34 THOMAS WOLSEY 35 as a wool-exporting country, the arbiter of Europe, which was thendivided into two camps between the contending powers of Franceand the Austro-Spanish House. It was an age of shamelessdiplomacy, quick conclusions and as quick desertions of alliances:Wolseys diplomacy was not more shameless than that of hiscontemporaries, but we are driven to the conclusion that it wassomewhat more futile, for the monarchs of Western Europe wereenabled by him to bleed England of money for objects which werequite un-English. Thus he engaged in two futile wars with France(1512 and 1522) and a still more futile candidature of his sovereignfor the Imperial Crown (1519), as well as in two successive attemptsto get the Papacy for himself; and in statecraft of this type he soonwasted the treasure of the first Tudor King, and left Henry VIII infinan
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