Ontario High School History of England . eled glory. His people, warlike as inthe old days, were proud of a king who planned to makeEngland greater than her neighbours. We find Henry thefriend now of Charles, now of. Francis. After he has metFrancis, in 1520, with costly and, as we should think, Thomas WolskyCardinal (1475M530) 194 HISTORY OF ENGLAND vulgar, pomp, on the so-called Field of the Cloth of Gold,in France, he welcomes Charles V in England. Theserulers, anxious to gain Wolseys support, treated him almostas a sovereign. Wolseys pressure upon Parliament.—All this busy in-trigue and pa
Ontario High School History of England . eled glory. His people, warlike as inthe old days, were proud of a king who planned to makeEngland greater than her neighbours. We find Henry thefriend now of Charles, now of. Francis. After he has metFrancis, in 1520, with costly and, as we should think, Thomas WolskyCardinal (1475M530) 194 HISTORY OF ENGLAND vulgar, pomp, on the so-called Field of the Cloth of Gold,in France, he welcomes Charles V in England. Theserulers, anxious to gain Wolseys support, treated him almostas a sovereign. Wolseys pressure upon Parliament.—All this busy in-trigue and paradeproved costly, and, inthe long run, Henryspart came out of thepockets of the Englishpeople. Docile as par-liament had learnedto be, Wolsey yetfound it stubbornwhen he demandedmoney. In 1523^ hesummoned it for thefirst time in sevenyears. The membersknew that they werenow called only togrant money, andwhen Wolsey askedfor a vast sum,£800,000, equal toquite £10,000,000 inour day, the Speakerof the House of Com-stoutly resisted the. The Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) mons, the brilliant Thomas Moredemand. Wolsey went down in person and tried to brow-beat the House, but in vain, and he was obliged to takemuch less than he had demanded. More money was neces-sary, and he therefore turned to demand an AmicableLoan from the well-to-do classes. They knew that, whilea loan in name, it would never be repaid. Yet theydared not resist. When Wolsey threatened that headsshould fall if the king did not get the money he required,they yielded, but they conceived a bitter hatred for the THE TUDOR MONARCHY 195 cardinal. The king, jovial and pleasure-loving, as he seemed,took care that the blame should fall on his minister. Henrys marriage with Catherine of Aragon, 1509—Wolseysbusiness was to do his masters will. When he ceased todo it he fell. It came about that Henry made up his mindto get rid of his wife in order to marry another woman,and it was this resolve which ruined Wolsey. Henry
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