The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey (Pimlico) (139 page)

⁶⁶
LP
, iii, 969.

⁶⁷
CWM
, 5, p.718

⁶⁸
LP
, iii, 1197.

⁶⁹
LP
, iii, 1210, 1233-4.

⁷⁰
Meyer, p.181 for a different view.

⁷¹
LP
, iii, 1218.

⁷²
LP
, iii, 1233.

⁷³
Oxford University, Reg. H, fo.60. For Cambridge see Mullinger, p.571. There has been considerable confusion about the university burnings. Following Chester,
Library Chronicle
, pp.69-71 my own belief is that none occurred, but if there was one in Cambridge it was certainly in 1521.

⁷⁴
Pastor, viii, pp.17-36.

⁷⁵
See p.147 ff. above

⁷⁶
Ven. Cal
., iii, p.124 for Spinelli’s estimate, but more generally ibid, pp.121-5;
LP
, iii, 1275.

⁷⁷
Fisher,
English Works
, pp.313, 347-8 for the quotations; see also Surtz,
Works and Days
, pp.302 ff.

⁷⁸
Wilkins, iii, pp.690-2.; GRO MS 9531/10/fo.139; KCA DR c/R7/fo.107v.

⁷⁹
Fisher,
English Works
, p.327.

⁸⁰
For a good example of damning with faint praise see Elton,
Reform and Reformation
, pp.75-6, while a standard work on the English Reformation gives it a sentence; see Dickens,
English Reformation
, p.95.

⁸¹
LP
, iii, 1220, 1233.

⁸²
Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, pp.110-16; 245 ff., 403 ff. is good on this.

⁸³
LP
, iii, 1233;
CWM
, 5, pp.720-1.

⁸⁴
Roper, p.67.

⁸⁵
Quoted in Doernberg, p.19; see also Tjernagel, pp.9-10 and E. Gordon Duff, important for the book’s bibliographical history. For the presentation and and the pope’s reply see
LP
, iii, 1574, 1654, 1656.

⁸⁶
Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, pp.115-17.

⁸⁷
LP
, iii, 1574.

⁸⁸
CWM
, 5, p.719.

⁸⁹
Tjernagel, pp.17-22.

⁹⁰
LP
, iv, 40, where misdated to 1524.

⁹¹
Very fully treated in
CWM
, 5, pp.715 ff.

⁹²
Mitchell, pp.109-14
CWM
, 5, p.792.

⁹³
Surtz,
Works and Days
is essential for Fisher’s writings.

⁹⁴
LP
, iii, 1659 (2), 1772.

⁹⁵
LP
, iii, 1450; E. Gordon Duff, pp.3-4.

⁹⁶
LP
, iii, 1510, 1574.

⁹⁷
Henry Ellis, 3 ser, i, pp.283-4 (
LP
, iii, 1760).

⁹⁸
LP
, iii, 2714, 3025; iv, 2652, 2677, 2933.

⁹⁹
St. P
, i, p.175 (
LP
, iv, 2445); see also
LP
, iv, 2371, 2420.

¹⁰⁰
LP
, iv, 2446, quoted in Doernberg, p.56; see also
CWM
, 8, pp.1135-6.

¹⁰¹
For More’s writing on this theme see Thomas More,
Correspondence
, p.323 in his
Letter to Bugenhagen
, and
CWM
, 8, pp.56 ff., 483 ff. in his
Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer
. See also Cavendish, p.179-81 for Wolsey’s views.

¹⁰²
CWM
, 8, pp.1068, 1159-10 for a good starting point to a complicated story.

¹⁰³
Henry Ellis, 1 ser, i, pp.179-84 (
LP
, iv, 995), a most important letter, redated to 1526 in Chester,
HLQ
, 14, pp.214-5.

¹⁰⁴
Hall, p.708 says that only two Hanse merchants abjured, but see Chester,
HLQ
, 14, pp.211-21 for five. For the raid see Kronenburg; for Fisher’s sermon see Surtz,
Works and Days
, pp.330-2.

¹⁰⁵
Chester,
HLQ
, 14 p.221.
CWM
8, p.1160, for the suggestion that they first reached England in March.

¹⁰⁶
CWM
, 8, pp.1161-2.

¹⁰⁷
See Elton,
Studies
, i, 148; Marius, p.316.

¹⁰⁸
Kronenberg, p.26.

¹⁰⁹
LP
, iv, 1962 (1-5); for his personal presence see
LP
, iv, 1962 (5); Barnes,
HLQ
, 14, p.217.

¹¹⁰
GRO MS 9531/10/fos.130v-6, printed in Foxe, iv, app; Walker,
JEH
, 40 appeared too late to be assimilated here, but it needs to be consulted.

¹¹¹
Sometimes Garret or Garrett.

¹¹²
LP
, iv, 4004, 4017, 4073, 4125, 4150, 4418, printed in Foxe, v, app.vi.

¹¹³
GRO MS 9531/10/fos.136v-8 for Garrard’s and Lome’s trials; Foxe, iv, pp.689-90, curiously not to be found now in Tunstall’s register.

¹¹⁴
LP
, iii, 1275; Chester,
HLQ
, 14, p.211.

¹¹⁵
Longland, fo.35 ff., not referred to in Bowker,
Henrician Reformation
, but see ibid, pp.57-64 for his concern about heresy.

¹¹⁶
Barlowe, p.120.

¹¹⁷
LP
, iv, 3960, transcribed in Arber, p.54.

¹¹⁸
LP
, iv, 2607; S. Thompson, ‘English and Welsh bishops’, p.127.

¹¹⁹
Reed, pp.165-6.

¹²⁰
LP
, iv, p.2549.

¹²¹
Thomas More,
Correspondence
, pp.387-8; (
LP
, iv, 4028).

¹²²
For biographical information and full transcripts of his letters see Hackett.

¹²³
CWM
, 8, p.1068; Arber, pp.18 ff. For Rinck see
LP
, iv, 4810 his letter to Wolsey of 4 Oct. 1528.

¹²⁴
The evidence in letters of West to Hackett and Rinck to Wolsey in Hackett, pp.173-5; Arber, pp.32-6 (
LP
, iv, 4693, 4810).

¹²⁵
Ridley,
The Statesman and the Fanatic
, 168.

¹²⁶
Hackett, p.169 (
LP
, iv, 4650), but for Harman episode as a whole see ibid, pp.155 ff.

¹²⁷
LP
, iv, 5461.

¹²⁸
The letters are not extant, but are referred to by Hackett in Hackett, p.167 (
LP
, iv, 4650).

¹²⁹
LP
, iv, 4714, 5078, 5402.

¹³⁰
Hackett, p.180 (
LP
, iv, 4714).

¹³¹
He was arrested in July 1528 and was out of prison the following April; see Hackett, pp.156, 251 (
LP
, iv, 4511, 5462). For the search see ibid, pp.173 ff. (
LP
, iv, 4693-4).

¹³²
Hackett, pp.63-72 (
LP
, iv, 2797).

¹³³
Hackett, pp.41-2 (
LP
, iv, 2649).

¹³⁴
In writing thus I am to a great extent paraphrasing More; see especially Thomas More,
Correspondence
, p.441;
CWM
, 6, pp.284 ff., 508 ff;
CWM
, 8, pp.143 ff. For similar worries of Tunstall’s chaplain, Robert Ridley, in a letter to Henry Gold see
LP
, iv, 3960.

¹³⁵
CWM
, 8, p.1379.

¹³⁶
Foxe, v, p.417.

¹³⁷
Admitted under interrogation at his trial in 1527; see GRO MS 9531/10/fos.130v.; Foxe, iv, app.vi.

¹³⁸
CWM
, 6, p.268.

¹³⁹
The evidence is difficult to interpret but see Chester,
Hugh Latimer
, pp.22 ff.

¹⁴⁰
This from the only source for the interview, Ralph Morice’s near contemporary account; see BL Harleian 422, fos.84-7, printed in Foxe, vii, app.iv.

¹⁴¹
Tyndale’s work appeared in 1530, and thus after Wolsey’s fall. But since he expected Wolsey’s triumphant return, I hope the point being made holds.

¹⁴²
In a letter to Tunstall; see Foxe, iv, p.638.

¹⁴³
Thomson,
Later Lollards
, pp.227-36.

¹⁴⁴
Foxe, vii, app.iv.

¹⁴⁵
But see Chester,
Hugh Latimer
, p.36.

¹⁴⁶
No record of his trial has survived but see Foxe, iv, p.586; v, p.27;
CWM
, 9, pp.119-20.

¹⁴⁷
GRO MS 9531/10/fos136v-7.

¹⁴⁸
LP
, iv, 4260.

¹⁴⁹
Foxe, iv, pp.688-91; see also J.F. Davis, ‘Heresy and Reformation’, pp.269-71.

¹⁵⁰
Foxe, v, app.vi (
LP
, 4073, 4175).

¹⁵¹
From his instructions to his archdeacons in Oct. 1526, quoted in Foxe, iv, p.667, but see GRO MS 9531/10/fo.45, where the date is 24th rather than 28th, but everybody produces a slightly different date!