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A69688	The negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the great Cardinall of England containing his life and death, viz. (1) the originall of his promotion, (2) the continuance in his magnificence, (3) his fall, death, and buriall / composed by one of his owne servants, being his gentleman-vsher.	Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?; Cavendish, William, Sir, 1505?-1557.	1641 (1641)	Wing C1619; ESTC R223198	84,018	137

well for I assure you that the King is his very good Lord and hath given me most hearty thanks for his entertainment And therefore goe your way to him and perswade him I may find him in quiet at my comming for I will not tarry long after you Sir quoth I and if it please your Lordship I shall endeavor to the best of my Power to accomplish your Lordships command But Sir I doubt when I name this Sir William Kingston that he will mistrust some il because he is Constable of the Tower and Captaine of the guard having in his company 24. of the Guard to accompanie him That is nothing quoth the Earle what if he be Constable of the Tower and Captaine of the Guard he is the fittest man for his wisedome and discretion to be sent about such a businesse and for the Guard it is onely to defend him from those that might intend him any ill Besides that the Guard are for the most part such of his old servants as the King hath tooke into his service to attend him most justly Well Sir quoth I I shall doe what I can and so departed and went to my Lord and found him in the Gallery with his Staffe and his Beades in his hands and seeing mee come he asked me what newes forsooth quoth I the best newes that ever you heard if you can take it well I pray God it bee true ● then quoth hee my Lord of Shrewsbury said I your most assured friend hath so provided by his letters to the King that his Majestie hath sent for you by Master Kingston and 24. of the Guard to conduct you to his Highnesse Master Kingston quoth hee and clapped his hand on his Thigh and gave a great sigh May it please your Grace quoth I I would you would take all things well it would be much better for you content your selfe for Gods sake and thinke that God and your good friends have wrought for you according to your own desires And as I conceive you have much more cause to rejoyce then lament or mistrust the matter for I assure you that your friends are more affraid of you then you need be of them And his Majestie to shew his love to you hath sent Master Kingston to honour you with as much honour as is your Graces due and to convey you in such easie journeys as is fitting for you and you shall command him to do and that you shall have your request And I humbly entreat you to imprint this my perswasion in your Highnesse discretion and to be of good cheere wherewith you shall comfort your selfe and give your frinds and poore servants great comfort and content Well quoth he I perceive more then you can imagine or doe know presently after came my Lord to acquaint him with that I had so lately related my L. Cardinall thanked the Earle for his great love and called for Master Kingston who came to him presently and kneeling down before him saluted him in the kings behalfe whom my Lord bareheaded offered to take up but he would not then quoth my Lord Master Kingston I pray you stand up and leave your kneeling to me for I am a wretch repleat with misery not esteeming my selfe but as a meere abject utterly cast away but without desert God he knowes therefore good Master Kingston stand up Then Master Kingston said the Kings Majestie hath him commended unto you I thanke his Highnesse quoth my Lord I hope he is in good health Yea quoth Master Kingston and he hath him commended unto you and commanded me to bid you be of good cheere for hee beareth you as much good will as ever hee did And whereas Report hath been made unto him that you should commit against his Majestie certain heynos crimes which he thinketh to be but yet hee for ministration of Justice in such Cases requisite could doe no lesse then send for you that you might have your triall mistrusting nothing your truth and wisedome but that you shall be able to acquit your selfe of all complaints and accusations extended against you And you may take your journey to him at your pleasure commanding me to attend you Master Kingston quoth my Lord I thanke you for your good newes And Sir hereof assure your selfe if I were as able and lusty as ever I was to ride I would goe with you post But alas I am a diseased man having a sluxe at which time it was apparant that he had poisoned himself it hath made me very weake but the Comfortable news you bring is of purpose I doubt to bring me into a fooles Paradise for I know what is provided for me Notwithstanding I thanke you for your good will and paines taken about mee and I shall with speed make readie to ride with you After this I was commanded to make all things readie for our departure the morrow after When my Lord went to bed he fell very sick of the Laske which caused him to goe to stoole from time to time all that night insomuch that from that time till morning hee had 50. stooles And the matter that he voided was very blacke which the Physitians called Adustine whose opinions were that he had not above 4. or 5. daies to live Notwithstanding he would have ridden with Mr. Kingston the next day had not the Earle of Shrewsbury advised him to the contrarie but the next day hee took his journey with Master Kingston and them of the Guard who espying him could not abstaine from weeping considering he was their old Master and now in such a miserable case whom my Lord tooke by the hand and would as hee rode by the way sometimes talke with one and sometimes with an other till he came to a house of my Lords standing in the way called Hardwick hall where he lay all that night very ill at case The next day he came to Nottingham and the next day to Leicester abbey and the next day he waxed very sick that he had almost fallen from his horse so that it was night ere he got to Leicester abbey where at his comming in at the Gates the Abbot with all their Covent met him with many lighted Torches whom they honourably received and welcommed with great reverence To whom my Lord said Father Abbot I am come to lay my bones amongst you riding still on his mule till he came to the stairs of his Chamber where hee alighted Master Kingston holding him by the arme led him up the staires who told me afterwards that he never felt so heavie a burthen in all his life and as soone as he was in his Chamber he went straight to bed this was upon Satterday and so he continued On Monday in the morning as I stood by is bedside about eight of the clock in the morning the windowes being close shut and having wax lights burning upon the Cupboard I thought I perceived him drawing on towards death Hee perceiving

into the North but made some stay by the way and many passages hapned in his journey too tedious here to relate At the last he came to Stoby where he continued til after Michaelmas exercising many deeds of charity most commonly every sunday if the weather served would he goe to some poor Parish-church thereabouts and there would say the divine service and either said or heard masse then caused one of his Chaplins to preach the word of God to the people afterwards hee would dine in some honest house in the Town where should be distributed to the poor alms aswell of meat and drinke as mony to supply the want of meat and drink if the number of poor did exceed thus with other good deeds practising himselfe during the time of his abode there between partie and partie being at variance About Michaelmas after heremoved from thence to Caywod Castle within 7. miles of the City of Yorke where he had much honour and love from all men high and lowe where he kept a plentifull house for all commers also hee builded and repaired the Castle which was much decayed having at the least three hundred persons daily in worke to whom he paid Wages lying there Where all the Doctors and Prebends of the Church of Yorke did repaire to my Lord according to their duties as unto the chiefe Head Patron and Father of their Spirituall dignities who did most joyfully wellcome him into those parts Saying it was no small comfort unto them to see their Head among them who had beene so long absent from them being like unto Fatherlesse and comfortlesse Children for want of his Presence and that they trusted shortly to see him amongst them in his owne Church To whom hee made answere That it was the most especiall cause of his comming to bee amongst them as a Father and a naturall brother Sir quoth they you must understand the Ordinances and Rules of our Church whereof although you bee the Head and sole Governour yet you are not so well acquainted as we be therein Therfore if it please your Grace wee shall under favour open unto you some part of our ancient Lawes and Customes of our Church that our head Prelate and Pastor as you now are might not come above our Quire doore untill by due Order he be installed Nor if you should happen to dye before your installation you should not be buried above in the Quire but below in the neather part of the body of the Church Therefore wee humbly desire and beseech you in the name of all our Brethren that you would vouchsafe to doe therein as our ancient Fathers your Predecessours have done and that you will not breake the laudable Customs of our Church To the which we are obliged by Oath at our first admittance to observe that and divers others which in our Chapter doth remaine upon Record These Records quoth my Lord would I faine see and then shall you know further of mine advise and mind in this businesse A day was signed to bring their Records to my Lord at which time they resorted to my Lord with their Register and Bookes of Records wherein were fairely Written their Institutions and Rules which every Minister of their Church was most principally and chiefly bound to observe and infallibly keepe and maintaine When my Lord had read the Records hee did intend to be at the Cathedrall Church of Yorke the next Munday after Alholland-tide against which Time due preparation was made for the same but not in so sumptuous a wise as were his predecessors before him Nor yet in such sort as the fame and common report was afterwards made of him to his great slander And to the false Reporters no small dishonesty to become a divulger of such notorious lies I am sure they did For I my selfe was sent by my Lord to Yorke to see that all things there should bee ordered and provided for that Solemnity in a very decent forme to the honour of that ancient and worthy Monastery of Yorke It came to passe that upon Alholland-day one of the head and principall Officers of the said Cathedrall Church which should have had most doing at my Lords Installation was with my Lord at Caywood and sitting at Dinner they fell into Communication of this matter and the Order and Ceremony thereof Hee saying that my Lord Cardinall should goe a foote from a Chappell which stands without the Gates of the City called Saint Iames his Chappell unto the Minster upon cloath which should bee distributed to the poore after his said passage to the Church Which my Lord hearing replied and said although perhaps our Predecessors have gone upon cloath yet we intend to go on foot without any such Pompe or glory in the vampes of our hosen And therfore gave order to his Servants to goe as humbly thither as might bee without any sumptuous apparrell for I intend on Sunday to come to you to bee installed and to make but one Dinner for you at the close and the next day to dine with the Major and so returne againe hither The day beeing not unknowne to all the Country the Gentlemen Abbots and Priors such provision sent in that it was almost incredible for store and variety The Common people held my Lord in great estimation for his purity and liberality and also for his familiar gesture and good behaviour amongst them By meanes whereof hee gained much love of all the people in the North parts of England CHAP. 19. Of the Cardinals fall and how hee was arrested of high Treason WHat chanced before his last troubles at Caywood as a signe or token from God of that which should follow I will now God willing declare My L. enemies being then at Court about the King in good estimation and honorable dignities seeing now my Lord in great favour and fearing the King would now call him home againe they therefore did plot amongst themselves to dispatch him by meanes of some sinister Treason or to bring him into the Kings great indignation by some other meanes This was their daily study and consultation having for their especiall helpe and furtherance as many vigilant attendants upon him as the Poets faine Argus had eyes The King with these their continuall complaints was mooved to much indignation and thought it good that the Cardinall should come up and to stand to his Triall in his owne person which his enemies did not like of Notwithstanding hee was sent for and after this sort First they devised that Sir Walter Welch Knight one of the Kings privy Chamber should bee sent downe with a Commission into the North and the Earle of Northumberland who was sometimes brought up in the House of my Lord being joyned in Commission with him should arrest my Lord of high Treason This being resolved upon Sir Walter Welch prepared for his journy with his Commission and certaine instruments annexed to the same and tooke horse at