Who Wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey?R. Rees, 1814 - 56 страници |
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Страница 23 - It came to pass that divers of these religious houses surrendered themselves eventually to the use and benefit of honest Baldwin Greymount. The king was touched with the activity and zeal of his commissioner. Not one of them whose reports were so ample and satisfactory, who could...
Страница 20 - ... way, he would talke, nowe with one, then with an other, until he came to an house of my lord of Shrewesburys, called Hardwicke Hall, where he lay all that nighte very evill at ease. The next day he rode to Nottingham, and there lodged that nighte, more sicke, and the next day he rode to Leicester Abbey ; and by the way he waxed so sicke, that he was almost fallen from his mule...
Страница 29 - ... teares and watery eies, that it would have caused a flinty harte to mourne with him. And as I could, I with others comforted him; but it would not be. For...
Страница 12 - Wolsey poisoned himself; but the words— " at which time it was apparent that he had poisoned himself," which appear in p. 108 of that work, were an interpolation, inserted by the publisher for some sinister purpose ; not being found in the two manuscripts now preserved in the Museum. See a former note, p.
Страница 45 - Suffolk gentleman, our proof, it must be allowed, is not so decisive. I rely, however, with some confidence upon this fact, for which we are indebted to the heralds, that he was nearly allied to Sir Thomas More, the idol of the Catholic party in his own time, and the object of just respect with good men in all times, Margery his wife being a daughter of William Kemp of Spains-hall, in Essex, Esq. by Mary Colt his wife, sister to Jane, first wife of the Chancellor*6.
Страница 25 - And above all things, there is nothing that maketh them more wilfull than carnall love and sensuall affection of voluptuous desire, and pleasures of their bodies, as was in this case; wherein nothing could be of greater experience than to see what inventions were furnished, what lawes were enacted, what costly edifications of noble and auncient monasteries were overthrowne, what diversity of opinions then rose, what executions were then committed, how many noble clerkes and good men were then for...
Страница 54 - In one material point, however, even this disquisition may challenge an equality with them. There is a much nearer approach made to certainty than in the discussions of any of the abovementioned so much greater questions. There are amongst readers of books some persons whose minds being every moment occupied in the contemplation of objects of the highest importance, look down with contempt upon the naturalist at his...
Страница 12 - In an advertisement he expresses himself thus cautiously as to the name of the author : " The following life was written by the Cardinal's gentleman-usher, Cavendish, whose Christian name in the superscription to some of the manuscript copies is George, but by Bishop Kennet, in his Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish, by Collins in his Peerage, and by Dr. Birch (No. 4233, * In his ' Ecclesiastical Biography ; or Lives of eminent Men connected with the History of Religion in England/ 6 vols.
Страница 26 - ... what diversity of opinions then rose, what executions were then committed, how many noble clerkes and good men were then for the same put to deathe, and what alteration of good, auncient, and holesome lawes, customes, and charitable foundations were tourned from reliefe of the poo.re, to utter destruction and desolation, almost to the subversion of this noble realme. It is sure too much pitty to heare or understand the things that have since that time chau need and happened to this region.
Страница 17 - ... to praise. The conduct of several persons was reflected on who were flourishing themselves, or in their immediate posterity, in the court of Queen Elizabeth: and it contained also the freest censures of the Reformation, and very strong remarks upon the conduct and character of Anne Boleyn, the Cardinal's great enemy. It is probable that no printer could be found who had so little fear of the StarChamber before his eyes as to venture the publication of a work so obnoxious : while such was the...