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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

not this your hand and Seale and shewed it to him in the Instrument with Seales no forsooth quoth the Bishop how say you to that quoth the King to the Bishop of Canterburie Sir It is his hand and Seale quoth the Bishop of Canterbury No my Lord quoth the Bishop of Rochester indeed you were in hand with mee to have both my hand and Seale as other of the Lords had done but I answered that I would never consent to any such act for it was much against my Conscience And therefore my hand and Seale shall never bee set to such an instrument God willing with many other words to that purpose You say truth quoth the Bishop of Cantorbury such words you used but you were fully resolved at the last that I should subscribe your name and put to your seale and you would allow of the same all which quoth the Bishop of Rochester under correction my Lord is untrue Well quoth the King wee will not stand in argument with you you are but one And so the King arose up and the Court was adjourned until the next day at which time the Cardinalls sate again and the Counsell on both sides were there present to answere The Kings Counsell alleadge the matrimonie not good nor lawful at the beginning Because of the Carnall copulation that Prince Arthur had with the Queene This matter was very narrowly scanned on that side and to prove the Carnall Copulation they had many Reasons and fimilitudes of truth and beeing answered negatively againe on the other side it seemed that al their former allegations were doubtfull to bee tryed and that no man knew Yes quoth the Bishop of Rochester I know the truth how can you know the truth quoth the Cardinall more than any other person Yes forsooth my Lord quoth hee I know that God is the Truth it selfe and never saith but truth and he saith thus Quos Deus conjunxit homo non separet And for as much as this marriage was joyned and made by God to a good intent therefore I sayd I knew the truth and that man cannot breake upon any wilfull action that which God hath made and constituted So much doe all faithfullmen know quoth my Lord Cardinall aswell as you therefore this reason is not sufficient in this case for the Kings Counsell doe alleadge many presumptions to prove that it was not lawfull at the beginning Ergo it was not ordained by God for God doth nothing without a good end Therefore it is not to be doubted but if the presumptions be true which they alleadge to be most true then the Conjunction neither was nor could bee of God Therefore I say unto you my Lord of Rochester you know not the truth unlesse you can avoide their presumptions upon just reasons Then quoth Doctor Ridley it is a great shame and dishonour to this honourable presence that any such presumtions should be alleadged in this open Court what quoth my Lord Cardinall Domine Doctor Reverende No my Lord there belongs no reverence to this matter for an unreverent matter may bee unreverently answered And so left off and then they proceeded to other matters Thus passed this Court from Session to Session and day to day till a certaine day the King sent for the Cardinal to Bridewell who went into the privie Chamber to him where hee was about an hower and then departed from the King and went to Westminster in his Barge the Bishop of Carlile being with him sayed it is a hot day today yea quoth the Cardinall if you had been as well chafed as I have beene within this hower you would say you were very hot my Lord no sooner came home but he went to bed where he had not lyen above two howers but my Lord of Wiltshire Mistris Anne Bullens Father came to speake with him from the King my Lord commanded he should be broght to his beds side who told him it was the Kings minde he should foorthwith goe with the Cardinall to the Queene being then at Bridewell in her chamber and to perswade her through their wisedomes to put the whole matter into the Kings own hands by her consent which should be much better for her honour then stand to the tryall at Law and thereby bee condemned which would tend much to her dishonour and discredit To performe the Kings pleasure my Lord said hee was ready and so prepared to goe but quoth he further to my Lord of Wiltshire you and others of the Lords of the Counsell have put fancies into the head of the King whereby you trouble all the Realme but at the length you will get but small thanks both of God and the world with many other earnest words and reasons which did cause my Lord of Wiltshire to bee silent kneeling by my Lords beds-side and in conclusion departed And then my Lord rose and tooke his barge and went to Bathhouse to Card. Campaines and so went together to Bridewell to the Queenes lodgings she being then in her Chamber of Presence they told the Gentleman-Usher that they came to speake with the Queens grace who told the Queen the Cardinalls were come to speak with her then shee rose up having a scane of red silke about her neck beeing at worke with her maides and came to the Cardinalls where they staied attending her comming at whose approach quoth she Alack my Lords I am sorrie that you have atended on me so long what is your pleasures with me If it please your grace quoth the Cardinall to go to your privie Chamber we will shew you the cause of our comming My Lord said shee if you have any thing to say to mee speak it openly before all these folke for I feare nothing that you can say to me or against mee but that I am willing all the world should both see heare it and therefore speake your mindes openly Then began my Lord to speake to her in Latin nay good my Lord speak to me in English quoth she although I doe understand some Latin Forsooth quoth my Lord good Madam if it please your Grace wee come both to know your mind what you are disposed to do in this matter and to declare to you secretly our Counsels and opinions which wee doe for very zeale and obedience to your Grace My Lords quoth shee I thanke you for your good wills but to make answer to your requests I cannot so suddenly for I was set amongst my maids at worke little thinking of any such matter wherein is requisite some deliberation and a better head then mine to make answere for I need Counsell in this case which concernes me so neare and friends here I have none they are in Spaine in my owne Countrey Also my Lords I am a poore woman of too weake Capacitie to answere such noble persons of wisedome as you are in so weighty a matter And therefore I pray you be good to

CARDINAL WOLSEY OB 1330. FROM THE ORIGINAL OF HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION AT CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD 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 LONDON Printed for William Sheeres 1641. THE PREFACE IT seemeth no wisedome to credit every light tale blazed abroad in the mouthes of vulgars for wee daily heare how with their blasphemous Trumpe they spread abroad innumerable Lyes without either shame or honesty which prima facie sheweth forth a visage of Truth as though it were an absolute verity though indeed nothing lesse And amongst the better sort those bablings are of no validity I have read the allegations of divers worthy Authours against such false rumours and opinions of the common people who delight in nothing more then to heare strange things and to see new alterations of Authority rejoycing sometimes in such Novelties which afterwards do produce Repentance Thus may all men of understanding conceive the madness of the rude multitude and not give too much credence to every sudden rumour untill the truth be perfectly knowne by the report of some approved and credible persons that commonly have the best Intelligence I have heard and also seen set forth in divers printed Books some untrue imaginations after the death of divers persons who in their lives were in great estimation invented rather to bring their honest names in question then otherwise Now forasmuch as I intend to write here some speciall proceedings of Cardinall Woolsey the great Archbishop his ascending unto honour and great promotion his continuance in it and sudden falling from the same A great part whereof shall be of mine owne knowledge and some part from credible persons informations This Cardinall was my Lord and Master whom in his life-time I served and so remained with him in his fall continually during the time of all his troubles both in the South and North parts untill hee dyed In all which time I punctually observed all his demeanours as also in his great Triumph and glorious estate And since his departure I have heard divers surmised and imagined Tales concerning his proceedings and dealings which I my selfe have certainly knowne to bee most untrue unto which I could have sufficiently answered according to truth But conceiving it to be much better to be silent then to reply against their untruths whereby I might perhaps have rather kindled a great flame of displeasure then have quenched one sparke of their untrue reports Therefore I did referre the truth thereof to the Almighty who knows the truth of all things Neverthelesse whatsoever any man hath conceived of him in his life or since his death Thus much I dare say without offence to any that in my judgement I never saw this Realme in better obedience and quiet then it was in the time of his Authority nor Iustice better administred without partiality as I could justly prove if I should not be taxed with too much affection I will therefore here desist to speake any further by the way of Apologie and proceed Now to speake of his Originall and ascending through Fortunes favour to high dignity and abundance of wealth An Advertisement to the Reader WHo pleaseth to reade this History advisedly may well perceive the immutability of honour the tottering state of earthly Dignity the deceipt of flattering friends and the instability of Princes favours This great Cardinall having experience of all this witnesse his fleeting from Honour the losse of Friends Riches and Dignities being forgotten of his Prince whilst Fortune smiled having saciety of all these And shee bending her brow deprived him of all Terrestiall Joyes who by twenty yeares study and paines had obtained so great wealth and dignitie and in lesse then one yeare lost all And thus was his honour laid in the Dust THE TABLE CHAP. I. OF the Cardinall his Originall and who hee was CHAP. II. Of the Cardinall his speedy dispatch to the Emperous Maximilian CHAP. III. Of King Henry his invading France in his owne person with the Cardinals assistance CHAP. IV. The Kings promoting his Almoner being made Cardinall and Lord Chancellor of England CHAP. V. Of the Order and Offices of his House and Chappell CHAP. VI Of his second Embassage to the Emperour Charles the fifth CHAP. VII Of the manner of his going to Westminster-Hall CHAP. VIII Of the Cardinals magnificence in his house CHAP. IX Of the originall Instrument of the Cardinals fall Mistris Anne Bullen CHAP. X. Of Mistris Anne Bullen her favour with the King CHAP. XI Of the variance betweene the French King and the Duke of Burbon c. CHAP. XII Of the Duke of Burbons stratagem and victory wherein the French King was taken prisoner CHAP. XIII Of the French Kings redemption out of captivity and the Cardinals Embassage into France CHAP. XIV Of the French Ambassadours entertainement and dispatch CHAP. XV Of the Kings discovery of his love to Mistris Anne Bullen to the Cardinall with his dislike c. CHAP. XVI A new Court erected to determine the Kings case two Cardinals being Iudges and of the issue CHAP. XVII Of certaine passages conducing to the Cardinals fall CHAP. XVIII The Cardinall accused of high treason in the Parliament house and Master Cromwels defence for him CHAP. XIX Of the Cardinals fall and how hee was arrested of high treason CHAP. XX Of the Cardinals entertainement by the Earle of Shrewsbury and of his death and buriall CHAP. I. Of the Cardinall his Originall and who he was TRuth it is Cardinall Woolsey was an honest poore mans sonne in the towne of Ipswich in the county of Suffolke and there borne who being but a child was very apt to learne wherefore by means of his parents and other his good friends hee was maintained at the Vniversitie of Oxford where in a short time hee prospered so well that in a small time as hee told mee with his owne mouth he was made Batchelour of Arts when he was but fifteene yeares of age and was most commonly called the Boy Batchelour Thus prospering in learning he was made fellow of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford after that he was made Master of Magdalene Schoole at which time were the Lord Marquesse Dorset sons there at Schoole committing unto him as well their education as their instructions and learning It pleased this Lord Marquesse against Christmas to send as well for the Schoolemaster as for the Schollers home to his house for their recreation in that pleasant and honorable Forrest They being a while there the Lord Marquesse their Father perceiving them to bee well improved in learning for the time Hee was so well contented that he having a Benefice in his gift being at that present voyd gave the Schoole Master the same in regard of his diligence After Christmas at his departure to the

you but not to the Earle without I see his Commission and also you are a sufficient Commissioner in this behalf being one of the privie Chamber Therefore put your Commission in execution spare me not I will obey you and the King for I feare not the crueltie of mine enemies no more then I doe the truth of my Allegiance wherein I take God to witnesse I never offended his Majesty in word or deede and therein I dare stand face to face with any having a difference without partiality Then came my Lord of Northumberland and commanded mee to avoide the Chamber And being loath to depart from my Master I stood still and would not remove to whom he spake againe and said there is no remedie you must depart with that I looked upon my Master as who would have said shall I goe and perceiving by his countenance that it was not for me to stay I departed and went into an other chamber where were many Gentlemen and others to heare newes to whom I made a report of what I heard and saw which was great heauinesse to them all Then the Earle called into his Chamber diuers of his owne servants and after he and Master Welsh had taken the keyes from my Lord hee committed the keeping of my Lord unto five Gentlemen and then they went about the house and put all things in order intending to depart the next day and to certifie the King and the rest of the Lords what they had done Then went they busie about to Convey Doctor Austine away to London with as much speede and privacy as they could possible sending with him divers persons to conduct him who was bound to his horse like a Traytor And this being done when it was neere night the Commissioners sending two Groomes of my Lords to attend him in his Chamber where hee lay all night the rest of the Earles men watched in the Chamber and all the house was watched and the gates safe kept that no man could passe or repasse untill next morning About eight of the clocke next morning the Earle sent for me into his Chamber and commaunded mee to goe to my Lord and as I was going I met with Master Welsh who called me unto him and shewed me how the Kings Majesty bare unto me his principall favour for my love and diligent Service that I had performed to my Lord wherefore quoth hee the Kings pleasure is that you shal be about him as chiefe in whom his Highnesse putteth great confidence and trust and thereupon gave mee in Writing the Articles Which when I had read I sayd I was content to obey his Majesties pleasure and would bee sworne to the performance thereof whereupon hee gave mee my Oath That done I resorted to my Lord whom I found sitting in a Chaire the Table being ready spread for him But so soone as hee perceived me come in he fell into such a wofull lamentation that would have forced a flinty-heart to mourne I then comforted him aswell as I could but hee would not for quoth hee I am much grieved that I have nothing to reward you and the rest of my true and faithfull Servants for all the good Service that they and you have done mee for which I doe much lament Upon Sunday following the Earle and Master Welsh appoynted to set forward for my Lords Horse and ours were brought ready into the inner Court where we mounted and comming towards the Gate ready to ride out the Porter had no sooner opened the same but we saw without ready attending a great number of Gentlemen and their Servants such as the Earle had appointed for that Service to attend and Conduct my Lord to Pomfrait that night But to tell you the Truth there were also many of the people of the Country assembled at the Gate lamenting his departure in number above three Thousand who after the opening of the Gate that they had a sight of him cryed out with a loud voyce God save your Grace God save your Grace the foule Evil take them that have taken you from us wee pray God that vengeance may light upon them And thus they ran after him through the Towne of Caywood for he was there very well beloved both of rich and poore CHAP. 20. Of the Cardinals entertainment at the Earle of Shrewsburies and of his death and buriall at Leicester AFter our departure from Cawood we came to Doncaster the third day wee came to Sheffield-parke where my Lord of Shrewsbury lived within the lodge and the Earle and his Lady and a great company of Gentlewomen and Servants stood without the Gate to attend my Lords comming at whose alightning the Earle received him with much honour and imbraced him saying these words My Lord you are most heartily welcome to my poore lodge and I am glad to see you Here my Lord stayed a fortnight and was most nobly entertayned he spent most of his time and applyed his minde to prayers continually in great devotion It came to passe as hee sate one day at dinner I beeing there perceived his colour divers times to change I asked him if hee was not well who answered me with a loud voyce I am suddenly taken with a Thing at my stomacke as cold as a Whet-stone and am not well Therefore take up the Table and make a short dinner and returne to mee againe suddainly I made but a little stay but came to him agayne where I found him still sitting very ill at ease Hee desired me to goe to the Apothecarie and aske him if hee had any thing would breake Winde upwards Hee told me hee had Then I went and shewed the same to my Lord who did command mee to give him some thereof and so I did and it made him breake winde exceedingly Loe quoth he you may see it was but winde for now I thanke God I am well eased and so he arose from the Table and went to praiers as hee used every day after dinner In the afternoon my Lord of Shrewsbury sent for mee to him to whom he said forasmuch as I have always perceived you to be a man in whom your Lord putteth great affiance and I my selfe knowing you to bee a man very honest with many words of commendations and praise more then becommeth mee to rehearse he said your Lord and Master hath often desired me to write unto the King that he might answere his accusations before his enemies And this day I have received Letters from his Majestie by Sir William Kingston whereby I perceive that the King hath him in good opinion and upon my request hath sent for him by the said Sr. William Kingston Therfore now I would have you play your part wisely with him in such sort as he may take it quietly and in good part for he is alwaies full of sorrow and much heavinesse at my being with him that I fear he would take it ill if I bring him tidings thereof And therein doth hee not