The British nation a history / by George MWrong . erevived; but the English victories wrought little thatwas permanent, and peace was soon arranged with both France and young priest named Wolsey had pleased Henry VIIby his quick and clever diligence. He was of middle-classThe career of Origin, his father having been, apparently, aCardinal successful grazicr and wool merchant of Ips- wich. The boy took his bachelors degree Wolsey. 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 t
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . erevived; but the English victories wrought little thatwas permanent, and peace was soon arranged with both France and young priest named Wolsey had pleased Henry VIIby his quick and clever diligence. He was of middle-classThe career of Origin, his father having been, apparently, aCardinal successful grazicr and wool merchant of Ips- wich. The boy took his bachelors degree Wolsey. 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 he became cardi-nal, and in 1518 papal le-gate, a position that madehim the representativeof the Pope in England,with rank above the oldnobility. The Venetianambassador declared in1519 that Wolsey trans-acted business which at Venice required the labours ofthe whole governing body. He was received on the Con-. Thomas Wolsey,Cardinal (1475?-1530). THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND 269 tinent by the monarchs of the time almost as their equal,and he lived in state little less than royal. He was Cardi-flal, 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 illegiti-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 poor, and he 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,
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