The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey (Pimlico) (165 page)

¹¹⁹The reports of both Imperial and French ambassadors are an obvious source; see
inter alia
Bellay,
Ambassades
, p.365 (
LP
, iv, 4649);
Correspondence
, 324 (
LP
, iv, 5679);
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.178-85.

¹²⁰LP
, iv, pp.1410-11.

¹²¹LP
, iv, pp.1410-13.

¹²²LP
, iv, 5862 for du Belley’s assessment to this effect.

¹²³See Tunstall’s comments to this effect in Dec. 1525 in
LP
, iv, 1800.

¹²⁴See p.455 above.

¹²⁵Ven. Cal
., iv, p.295.

¹²⁶At least he was alleged to have had doubts about the validity of the original dispensation; see Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, p.13.

¹²⁷Inter alia
Mendoza mentions hostility to the king in May 1527; see
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.190; also Hall, p.754. For hostility to government as a whole, see
Sp. Cal
., iii (2), p.444, 845-6, 862.

¹²⁸LP
, iv, app.39.

¹²⁹See p.298.

¹³⁰St. P
, i, p.261 (
LP
, iv, 3360).

¹³¹See Knowles,
Religious Orders
, iii, pp.161-3, 470; Goring,
Sussex Archaeological Collections
, cxvi.

¹³²LP
, iv, 4507, 4509.

¹³³LP
, iv, 4513.

¹³⁴See pp.321 ff. above for the Wilton affair.

¹³⁵LP
, iv, 5985; Knowles,
Religious Orders
, iii, p.470.

¹³⁶LP
, iv, 5458.

¹³⁷LP
, iv, 4044.

¹³⁸Gunn,
Charles Brandon
, pp.102-3.

¹³⁹Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.193.

¹⁴⁰Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.432-3.

¹⁴¹Bellay,
Ambassades
, p.360 (LP, iv, 4649 where placed wrongly in August). Du Bellay himself commented that if Wolsey were to stumble, there were plenty on the watch to pick him up which is surely not quite the same as saying that there was a faction plotting his overthrow. It is also true that in Sept.1528 Mendoza suggested that Wolsey was increasingly fearful of Anne’s growing influence; see
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.790.

¹⁴²LP
, iv, 5210.

¹⁴³LP
, iv, 5255.
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.885-6.

¹⁴⁴Bellay,
Correspondence
, p.19 (
LP
, iv, 5582) for du Bellay’s assessment to this effect of 22 May 1529.

¹⁴⁵Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.877 (
LP
, iv, 5177).

¹⁴⁶Cavendish, pp.92-6.

¹⁴⁷BL Vitellius B xii, fos, 168-9 (
LP
, iv, 5953), Thomas Alvard to Thomas Cromwell, 23 Sept.1529.

¹⁴⁸Cavendish, pp.29-34.

¹⁴⁹Suggested by Henry’s wish in 1527 for a dispensation allowing him to marry a woman who had already contracted to marry someone else provided there had been no consummation, and by the need in 1532 to obtain a statement from Henry Percy that no formal precontract had been entered into.

¹⁵⁰Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.432.

¹⁵¹See pp.192-3 above.

¹⁵²LP
, iv, 4081, 4584, 5210; see also Ives,
Anne Boleyn
, pp.126-7. I should perhaps mention that my account of Wolsey’s downfall was written before Ives’s biography appeared, and differs from it in a number of respects.

¹⁵³Inter alia LP
, iv, 4649;
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.790.

¹⁵⁴LP
, iv, 4005.

¹⁵⁵LP
, iv, 4081.

¹⁵⁶LP
, iv, 4480.

¹⁵⁷LP
, iv, 4360; see p.503 above.

¹⁵⁸Dowling,
JEH
, 35; Ives,
Anne Boleyn
, pp.302-31, though both place the emphasis on a biblical humanism rather than on a commitment to Lutheran doctrine.

¹⁵⁹See pp.192-3 above.

¹⁶⁰Bellay,
Correspondence
, p.94 (
LP
, iv, 5983).

¹⁶¹Bellay,
Correspondence
, pp.104-5 (
LP
, iv, 6003).

¹⁶²Sp. Cal
., iv (i), pp.220-39, 292, 303.

¹⁶³LP
, iv, 5213, 5302, 5348.

¹⁶⁴LP
, iv, 5427 for Henry’s letter;
LP
, iv, 5428 for Wolsey’s.

¹⁶⁵St. P
, vii, p.182 (
LP
, iv, 5635).

¹⁶⁶St. P
, vii, p.183 (
LP
, iv, 5635).

¹⁶⁷LP
, iv, 5862, 5582, 6011.

¹⁶⁸St. P
, vii, p.183 (
LP
, iv, 5635).

¹⁶⁹Suffolk set off on 17 May. On 21 May Wolsey reported receiving letters from Rome of 4 May (LP, iv, 5576). Admittedly seventeen days was fast; the norm from Venice was twenty-four, the fastest nine; see Braudel, i, p.362.

¹⁷⁰Usually referred to as a cousin, but only a half-cousin: one of Bryan’s grandmothers was also Anne’s, but their mothers were only half-sisters; see Ives,
Anne Boleyn
for genealogical table.

¹⁷¹St. P
, vii, pp.166-7 (
LP
, iv, 5481).

¹⁷²St. P
, vii, p.170 (
LP
, iv, 5519).

¹⁷³St. P
, vii, p.167 (
LP
, iv, 5519).

¹⁷⁴As Wolsey’s secretary, though ever since the previous February he had been working almost full time on the divorce, and was to become royal secretary in July.