The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ish victories wrought little that was i^ernument, and peace was soon arrantjedAuff, 7 1514. with both France and Scotland. A young priest named Wolsey had pleased Henry VIIby his quick and clever diligence. He was of middle-classThe career of Origin, liis father having been, apparently, aCardinal succcssful grazicr and wool merchant of Ips- °^^^ wich. - The boy took his bachelors degree at Oxford when only fifteen, became Fellow of MagdalenCollege, was introduced at court, and rose rapidly. He was not far from fortywhen Henry VIII cameto the th
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ish victories wrought little that was i^ernument, and peace was soon arrantjedAuff, 7 1514. with both France and Scotland. A young priest named Wolsey had pleased Henry VIIby his quick and clever diligence. He was of middle-classThe career of Origin, liis father having been, apparently, aCardinal succcssful grazicr and wool merchant of Ips- °^^^ wich. - The boy took his bachelors degree at Oxford when only fifteen, became Fellow of MagdalenCollege, was introduced at court, and rose rapidly. He was not far from fortywhen Henry VIII cameto the throne, and theyoung king soon foundin him a useful nearly twenty yearsthe affairs of Englandwere in Wolseys 1515 ho became cardi-nal, and in 1518 papal le-gate, a position that madehim the representativeof the Pope in England,witli rank above the oldnobility. The Venetianambassador declared in1519 that Wolsey trans-acted business wliich at Venice required the labours ofthe whole governing body. He was received on the Con-. Cakiunai. (, -1>30i. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND 269 tinent by the monarelis of the time almost as their equal,and he lived in state little less than royal. He was Cardi-nal, Lord Chancellor of England, Archbishop of York,Bishop of Winchester, of Durham, and of Lincoln, and Ab-bot of St. Albans. Charles V and Francis I each paid himthe income of a bishopric. His revenues were enormous,and out of them he was able to build so stately a palaceas Hampton Court. Though he, a priest, had an legiti-mate son whom he promoted openly, for the time hismorals were above the average. He was an upright judge,never accused of bribery or corruption. He reformed thevexatious regulations of the Court^of Chancery, he stead-fastly befriended the j)oor, and ho avoided his father, Henry was still jealous of possible rivals,and beheaded in 1513 the Earl of Suffolk, and in 1521 theDuke of Buckingham, both of royal lineage, but theywe
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