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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

hee would secretly repaire out of this Realme Insomuch that they caused a Post to ride after the Cardinall to search him who overtooke him at Callis and stayed him untill search was made but there was found no more then was received of the King for a reward Now after Cardinall Campaine was gone Michaellmas terme drew on against which time my Lord Cardinall repaired to his house at Westminster and when the Terme began hee went into the Hall in such manner as he was acustomed to doe and sate in the Chancery being then Lord Chancellor of England after which day he never sate more the next day hee stayed at home for the comming of my Lord of Norfolk and Suffolke who came not that day but the next And did declare unto my Lord that it was the Kings pleasure he should surrender up the great Seale of England into their hands and that he should depart unto Ashur which is a house near unto Hampton Court belonging unto the Bishopricke of Winchester The Cardinall demanded of them to see their Commission that gave them such authority who answered again they were sufficient Commissioners and had Authority to doe no lesse from the Kings owne mouth notwithstanding he would in no wise agree to their demand in that behalfe without further knowledge of their Authority telling them that the great Seale was delivered to him by the Kings owne person to enjoy the Ministration thereof together with the Chancellorship during the term of his life whereof for surety he had the Kings Letters Patents to shew which matter was much debated between him and the Dukes with many great words which he tooke patiently insomuch that the Dukes were faine to depart without their purpose at that time and returned to Windsor to the King and the next day they returned to my Lord with the Kings Letters whereupon in obedience to the Kings command my Lord delivered to them the broad Seale which they brought to Windsor to the King Then my Lord called his Officers before him and tooke account of all things they had in their charge and in his Gallery were set divers Tables upon which were layed divers and great store of rich stuffes as whole pieces of silke of all colours Velvets Sattins Muskes Taffaties Grogarams Scarlets and divers rich Commodities Also there were 1000. pieces of fine Hollands and the hangings of the Gallery with cloath of Gold and cloath of Silver and rich cloath of Bodkin of divers colours which were hanged in expectation of the Kings comming Also of one side of the Gallery were hanged the rich suits of Copes of his owne providing which were made for Colledges at Oxford and Ipswich they were the richest that ever I saw in all my life Then had he two chambers adjoyning to the Gallery the one most commonly called the guilt Chamber the other the Councell Chamber wherein were set two broad and long Tables whereupon was set such abundance of Plate of all sorts as was almost incredible to be believed a great part being al of clean gold and upon every table and cupboard where the Plate was set were bookes importing every kinde of plate and every piece with the contents and the weight thereof Thus were all things furnished and prepared giving the charge of the said stuffe with other things remayning in every office to be delivered to the King as he gave charge all things beeing ordered as is before rehearsed my Lord prepared to depart and resolved to goe by water but before his going Sir William Gascoigne beeing his Treasurer came unto him and said Sir quoth he I am sorry for your Grace for I heare you are straight to goe to the Tower Is this the best comfort quoth my Lord you can give to your master in adversity It hath alwaies beene your inclination to bee light of credit and much lighter in reporting of lyes I would you should know Sir William and all those reporters too that it is untrue for I never deserved to come there Although it hath pleased the King to take my house ready furnished for his pleasure at this time I would all the world should know I have nothing but it is of right for him and of him I received all that I have It is therefore convenient and reason to tender the same to him againe Then my Lord with his traine of Gentlemen and yeomen which was no small company took his barge at his privie stairs and went by water to Putney at which time upon the water were abundance of boates filled with people expecting to have seene my Lord Cardinall goe to the Tower which they longed to see Oh wondring and new-fangled world is it not a time to consider the mutability of this uncertaine world for the common people ever desire things for novelties sake which after turne to their small profit or advantage For if you mark the sequell they had small cause to rejoyce at his fall I cannot see but all men in favour are envyed by the common people though they doe minister Iustice truly Thus continued my Lord at Ashur 3. or 4. weekes without either Beds sheets Table-cloaths or dishes to eate their meate in or wherewith to buy any But there was good store of all kind of victualls of beere and wine plenty but afterwards my Lord borrowed some Plate and dishes of the Bishop of Carlile Thus continued my Lord in this strange estate till after Alhollantide and beeing one day at dinner Mr. Crumwell told him that he ought in Conscience to consider the true and good service that he and other of his servants had done him who never forsooke him in weale nor woe then quoth my Lord alas Tom you know I have nothing to give you nor them which makes me both ashamed and sorry that I have nothing to requite your faithfull services whereupon Master Cromwell told my Lord that he had abundance of Chaplaines that were preferred by his Grace to Benefices of some 1000. pound and others 500 pound some more and some lesse and wee your poore servants who take more paines in one dayes service then all your idle Chaplains have done in a yeare and therefore if they will not impart liberally to you in your great indigence it is pitty they should live and all the world will have them in iudignation for their great ingratitude to their Master Afterwards my Lord commanded me to call all his Gentlemen and Yeomen up into the great Chamber commanding all the Gentlemen to stand on the right hand and the Yeomen on the left side at last my Lord came out in his Rochet upon a Violet gowne like a Bishop who went with his Chaplins to the upper end of the Chamber where was a great windowe beholding his goodly number of servants who could not speake to them untill the tears ran downe his checks which beeing perceived of his servants caused fountaines of teares to gush out of their sorrowfull eyes in such

be one of the Privie Counsell as by your wisedome you are fit take heede what you put in the Kings head for you can never put it out againe And I desire you further to request his Grace in Gods name that he have a vigilant eye to suppresse the hellish Luthrans that they increas not through his great negligence in such a sort as he be compelled to take up Armes to subdue them as the King of Bohemia was whose Commons being infected with Wickliffs heresies the King was inforced to take that course Let him consider the Story of King Richard the Second the second sonne of his Progenitor who lived in the time of Wickliffs Seditions and heresies Did not the Commons I pray you in his time rise against the Nobilitie and chiefe governours of this Realme and at the last some of them were put to death without Justice or mercie and under pretence of having all things common did they not fall to spoyling and robbing and at last tooke the Kings person and carried him about the Citie making him obedient to their proclamations Did not also the Trayterous Heretiques Sir Iohn Old-Castle Lord Cobham pitch a field with Heretiques against King Henry the fourth where the King was in person and fought against them to whom God gave the victory Alas if these be not plaine presidents and sufficient perswasions to admonish a Prince Then God wil take away from us our prudent Rulers leave us to the hands of our enemies And then will ensue mischiefe upon mischiefe Inconveniences Barrennesse and scarcitie for want of good Orders in the Common-wealth from which God of his tender mercy defend us Master Kingston farewell I wish all things may have good successe my time drawes on I may not tarry with you I pray you remember my words Now began the time to draw neere for hee drew his speech at length and his tongue began to faile him his eyes perfectly set in his head his sight failed him Then wee began to put him in minde of Christs passion and caused the Yeoman of the Guard to stand by privately to see him dye and beare witnesse of his words and his departure who heard all his communications And then presentlie the clocke strooke eight at which time he gave up the Ghost and thus departed he this life one of us looking upon an other supposing he prophesied of his departure We sent for the Abbot of the house to annoint him who speedily came as hee was ending his life who said certaine praiers before that the life was out of his bodie Here is the end and fall of pride for I assure you he was in his time the proudest man alive having more regard to the honour of his Person then to his spirituall function wherein he should have expressed more meekenesse and humility For Pride and Ambition are both linked together and Ambition is like Choller which is an humor that makes men active earnest and full of alacrity stirring if it bee not stopped or hindred in its course But if it be stopped and cannot have its way it becommeth dust and thereby maligne and venemous So Ambitions and proud men if they find the way open for their rising and advancement and still get forwards they are rather busie then dangerous But if they bee checked in their desires they become secretly discontent and look upon men and matters with an evill eye and are best pleased when things goe backewards but I forbeare to speake any further herein The Cardinall beeing departed Master Kingston sent post to London one of the Guard then was Master Kingston and the Abbot in consultation about the Funerall which was solempnized the day after for Master Kingston would not stay the returne of the Post They thought good that the Major of Leicester and his Brethren should see him personally dead to prevent false reports that hee was alive And in the Interim whilst the Major was sent for his Bones were laid in the Coffin and his shirt of haire and his over shirt of fine holland were taken off and were put into the Coffin together with all such ornaments wherewith he was invested when hee was made Archbishop as Miter Crosse Ring and Pall with all other things due to his orders Thus hee lay all that day with his Coffin opon and bare faced that all that desired might see him And about 3. of the Clock he was buried of the Abbot with great solemnity And being in the Church his corpes were set in the Ladies Chappel with many Tapers or poor men about him holding Torches in their hands who watched the Corps all that night whilst the Canons sung divers dirges and other divine Orisons And at 4. of the Clock the next morning the Cardinalls servants and Master Kingston came to the Church to the execution of many Ceremonies in such manner as is usuall to Bishops burialls And so he went to Masse where the Abbot did offer and divers others And then went to burie the Corpes in the middle of the said Chappell by this time it was fire of the Clocke being St. An●●●●s day Then we prepared for our journey to the Court where wee attended his Majestie the next day I was sent for to the King conducted by Master Norris where the King was in his night gowne of Rochet velvet furred with sables before whom I kneeled the space of an houre during which time his Majestie examined me of divers particulars concerning my Lord Cardinall wishing rather then twenty thousand pounds that he had lived He asked me concerning the fifteen hundred pounds which Master Kingston moved to my Lord Quoth I I thinke I can perfectly tell your Grace where it is and who hath it can you quoth the K. I pray you tell mee and you shall not bee unrewarded Sir quoth I after the departure of Master Vincent from my Lord at Ser●oby who had the custody thereof leaving it with my L. in divers baggs he delivered it to a certaine Priest safelie to bee kept to his use is this true quoth the King yea quoth I without doubt the Priest will not denie it before mee for I was at the deliverie thereof who hath gotten divers other rich Ornaments which are not Registred in the book of my Lords inventorie or other writings whereby any man is able to charghim there with but my selfe Then said the King let me alone for keeping this secret between me and you Howbeit three may keepe Counsell if two be away And if I knew my Cap were privie to my Counsell I would cast it into the fire and burne it And for your honesty and Truth you shall bee our servant in our Chamber as you were with your Master Therefore goe you your wayes to Sir Iohn Gage our Vice-Chamberlain to whom wee have spoken alreadie to admit you our servant in our Chamber and then goe to the Lord of Norfolke and hee shall pay you your whole yeares wages which

is ten pounds is not it so quoth the King Yea forsooth and if it please your Grace quoth I. And withall said the King you shall receive a reward the Duke of Norfolke So I received tenne pounds of the Duke for my wages and twenty pounds for my reward and his Majestie gave me a Cart and six horses the best that I could chose out of my Lords horses to carry my goods and five marks for my charge homewards FINIS He was Batchelour of Arts at 15. years of Age He was naturally eloquent King Henry in the fifth yeare of his raigne invaded France The King relieth upon the Almaners policie He besieged the strong Towne of Turwine He besiegeth the Towne of Turney The Scots in the Kings absence invade England The Officers of his Chappell Officersin his privie Chamber Great resort to his house as to the King His entertainment of the King in a Masque The King his Company conducted into the chamber The Masquers salute the Ladies The Cardinall casts at two hundred crownes The Cardinall mistaken The Earle come to the Cardinall His sharpe reproofe of his Sonne The Earle doth intend to dis-inhe●it him He speakes to the servants He goes to the King The Contract between Lord Percy and Mistris Anne Bullen dissolved She much displeased therat Shee is discharged the Court Her admittance againe to Court Queene Katherine her patience A plot of the Nobility against the Cardinall The Cardinall endevours to get her favour A plot of the Cardinall The Duke of Burbon fled to the Emperour King Henry joyneth his forces with the Emperor against the French King The Duke the King of Englands Generall The French King in person with an Army The Duke flies to Pavia and is there besieged by the French King The French Ambassadour treats of peace with England Command sent to Sir Iohn Russell to detaine the Kings pay The Duke his souldiers in extreme want The Dukes loving advise A generall consent The Dukes subtile devise They issue out in the night The Duke issues out with 150. or 160. men He flew the enemies and tooke the gunnes He wonne the field He intended to sack Rome but was there slaine Easie to invade France King Henry ought to have the French King captive Divers Ambassadours from Fuance to King Henry to take order for their Kings release The Cardinall endevoureth the peace of the Pope and the French King The Counsell advised the Cardinal to goe of the Embassage to France This was a plot The Cardinall doth prepare for his Iourney See his Magnificence He came to Canterbury The Cardinall commandeth the Monkes to pray for the Pope The Cardinall wept He arrived at Callice He gave the people pardon The Cardicalls all his followers into his privy Chamber The Cardinalls instructions to his followers Their duty to him expressed The nature of the Frenchmen The Cardinall and his traine goe from Callis His troops 3. inranke extended three quarters of a mile The Cardinall of Lorraine meets my Lord Captaine of Picardy The French king sent a Convoy His entertainment in Bulloigne Also at Muterell A Latine Oration Pageants made for joy His entertainment at Abovile I left my Lord and rode to Amience to see the King First came Madam Regent Two dayes after the King attended by Swithers Burgonians French and Scottish The Cardinall put on rich raiments The French King and the Cardinall meet They March the Cardinall on the Kings right hand The King and Cardinall at Amience 14. dayes They removed from Amience to Campaines Monsieur Crookesley his going to invite the King and the Cardinall to his Castle The Cardinals servant nobly entertained The Lady salutes him her selfe The French King the Lord Cardinall and the Queene Regent lodged all in one Castle The Cardinall fell out with the Chancellour of France The Cardinal departs in anger Great means used to bring him again to consultation The Cardinall writes Letters into England He sends post into England The Cardinall feasts two Queens In comes the French King and the King of Navarre The French King much taken with my Lords Musicke The French King hunted the wild Boare Preparation to returne into Bngland The Cardinal that morning he came away made the Chancellour of France a Cardinall He arrives at the court The Cardinall maketh an oration in the Star-chamber A perpetuall peace made with France The Embassadours establish our King in the order of France The King of England sent Ambasse into France to establish the French King in the order of the Garter The King of England and France Ambassadours receive the Sacraments to confirme the perpetual peace The Articles of peace read by the Cardinall The King subscribeth and sealeth The French Nobility conveyed to Richmond The rooms richly hung 200. and 80. beds prepared The ordering of the banquetting rooms The Frenchmen conducted to supper The Cardinall comes in ere the second course The Cardinall drinks a health to both Kings His Majestie invites the Stangers to the Court Their preparation for France They take leave of the King The Kings reward And also of the Cardinall The Kings Case discussed by an assembly of Bishops Cōmissioners sent to all the forraigne Vniversities The Cardinal sends againe for the bishop Embassadors sent to th' pope The Pope doth grant their suite The Pope sends his Legate into England Kings Councell Queenes Counsell The Bishop of Rochester lost his head for the Queens sake The King and Queene called by the Cryer The Queene on her knees pleads for her selfe She commendeth K Henry the 7. She goes out of the Court The Kings commendations of his Qu. in her absence The King declares himself to the whole Court All the Kings Issue Male by the Queen dyed The chiefe point in the Kings case The King affirmes he hath no dislike of the Queene The King produceth the Licence sealed by the Card. and the rest of the Bishops The Bishop of Rochester doth denie that he ever sealed or subscribed The Court adiourn'd The Kings counsel alledg the Matrimony not good nor lawfull The Queenes Counsel speak Bishop of Rochester Doctor Ridley The King sent for the Cardinall The Cardinal returnes and goes home to bed The two Cardinalls went on a message from the King to the Queen The Cardinal declares the cause of their going Queens answer Cardinall Campains refused to give Iudgement He makes a speech The Duke of Suffolke confronts the Cardinals The Cardinals mild answere His reason why hee proceeds not to Iudgment The Duke deharted discontented The King offended The Cardinals commission his excuse Dr. Gardener sent Embassador to th' pope The Cardinal sent for to the Court He found but small content Great supposition of the K. displeasure Mistris Anne Bulloigne offended for the Cardinalls intertaynment She complains of him The King would not talke with the Cardinall They search the Cardinall at Callis The King sends for the great Seale He refuseth to deliver up the broad Seal The Card. sets his house in order He speaks to them all He informed his Lord what was objected against him Articles against the Cardinall disannulled by Mr. Cromwell They charge him with a Premunire Iudges sent to examine the Cardinall His answere The Cardinal doth submit to the King The King demands Yorke house The Cardinals answere He fell sicke The King sends his Physition Th' King sends his ring in token of favour And mistris Anne Bulloign her Tablet In foure dayes they cured him The Kingsent three or foure loads of houshold stuffe A Prophesie When the cow rides the bull Then Priest beware thy scull The Prophesies expounded And fulfilled by the Cardinalls fall Shirt of hair A thousand mark pension to the Cardinall The King sent him 10000. p. The Cardinal goeth to his Bishoprick of Yorke At Peterborowe hee did wash 59. poor mens feete Charity to the poore Order in the Cathedral at Yorke Preparation for the Cardinals instalment at York Store of good provision sent in by the Country The Cardnals crosse in the fall brake Dr. Bonners head The Earle of Northumberland and Mr. Welsh come to Caywood-hal The Cardinal and the Earle meete The Earl doth arrest the Cardinall Master Welsh arrests Doctor Austin of high Treason The Earle takes the keys from my L. The Cardinalls causlesse feares Enemies The Cardinall salutes Mr. Kingston Mr. Kingston tells him he is in the Kings favour The Cardinal near death Divers soms of money borrowed by the Cardnal a little before hee dyed The Cardinal desires meate The Cardinals advise The Cardinall gave up the Ghost The Cardinal is buried in St Maries Chappell in Leicester