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Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: To 1571.
Original Letters Illustrative of English History To 1571 Author:Henry Ellis 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: LETTER XCIX. Cardinal Wolsey to King Henry the Eighth, chiefly upon the discontent expressed at the manner of suppressing the small Monasteries with which Ms ... more »College at Oxford was to be endowed. [MS. BAKER, BRIT. J1US. HARL. 7035. p. 174.] , The return of Francis the First to his dominions, so minutely noticed in one or two Letters of the preceding Volume, was followed by demands from England of certain restitutions, the enforcing of which in the negociations at Compeigne was deputed to Wolsey alone. This was, in fact, the critical moment of Wolsey's fortunes, when, to use Cavendish's words, his enemies " lay in a-wait with my Lady Anne to take the Cardinal in a brake." The first part of the present Letter alludes to these negociations. The rest shows that the enterprise to ruin him in his absente had become successful: the King himself not only listening to, but reiterating the general dissatisfaction at the Suppression of those Monasteries with the revenues of which the Cardinal's College was to be endowed. It is remarkable that in this Letter, as if in compliment, Wolsey calls it the KING'S INTENDED COLLEGE. The following is the title of this Letter as given in Baker's hand writing: " Letter written by Card. Wolscy's own hand to K. Hen. ii"1. transcribed from a Copy taken of it by ArchBp. Abbot, endorsed thus, ' The Orlglnall I sent back to the office of the Kittg't Papert, Ita est, G. CANT. Apr. 17, 1C16.' " To the King's Most noble Grace, Defensor of the Faith. S'..aftek my most humble and lowly recommendations, it may like your Highness to understand that it hath been and is much to my rejoyce and comfort, to perceive by the relation of S''. Tho. More how the-discourses and communications which I have had with the VOL. II. SER. 2. C ...« less