The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
- ISBN-10
- 1458924866
- ISBN-13
- 9781458924865
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01
- Publisher
- General Books
- Author
- George Cavendish
Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Now we may collect that the author, who- The author ever he was, thought himself a neglected man mm. at the time of writing. He tells us that he engaged in the work to vindicate the memory of his master from diverse sondrie surmises and imagined tales, made of his proceedings and doings, which he himself had perfectly knowen to be most untrue. We cannot however but discover, that he was also stimulated by the desire of attracting attention to himself, the old and faithful domestic of a he took his journey with Master Kingston and the guard. And as soon as they espied their old master in such a lamentable estate, they lamented him with weeping eyes. Whom my lord took by the hands, and divers times, by the way, as he rode, he would talk with them, sometime with one, and sometime with another; at night he was lodged at a house of the Earl of Shrewsbury's, called Hardwick Hall, very evil at ease. The next day he rode to Nottingham, and there lodged that night, more sicker, and the next day we rode to Leicester Abbey; and by the way he waxed so sick, that he was divers times likely to have fallen from his mule. p. 536. This is an affecting picture. Shakspeare had undoubtedly seen these words, his portrait of the sick and dying Cardinal so closely resembling this. But in these words is this chronological difficulty. How is it that Hardwick Hall is spoken of as a house of the Earl of Shrewsbury's in the reign of Henry VIII. or at least in the days of Queen Mary, when it was well known that the house of this name between Sheffield and Nottingham, in which the Countess of Shrewsbury spent her widowhood, a house described in the Anecdotes of Painting, and seen and admired by every curious traveller in Derbyshire, did not accrue to the possessions of any part of the Shrewsbury f...
