"doth amiffe, wherein you will fhew yourselves 66 66 friendly to him; and fo I take my leave of you. And fon, go your wayes unto my Lord, your Master, and serve him diligently. And "fo parted my Lord of Northumberland, and "went down into the Hall, and fo took his "barge." The Cardinal does not appear to have been very scrupulous in the means by which he procured fupport for the pious and learned foundations which he raised. According to Lord Herbert, by a concurrence of the papal and regal authority, he fuppreffed divers Monafteries, and gave such terror to the reft, that he drew large fums from them; but as this, at last, became a public grievance, the King took notice of it in so The Cardinal," fays Ofborne acutely, "had for"gotten an aphorifm of policy, when he pulled down Mo"nafteries to build Colleges; by which he inftructed that "docile Tyrant Henry to do the fame. The wisdom of "Mofes," adds Ofborne, "was fuperlative; who, left one facrilegious injury fhould have proved a precedent for a "greater, (had the people made a benefit by the spoil,) "employed the cenfers of Corah and his complices to make plates for the altar; but finding the gold of idols too rank "decently to be used in the service of God, he reduced them "to powder, and threw them into the River, left the Mul❝titude, having been fleshed on a Calf, (a falfe Deity,) "fhould after affume the boldnefs to rob the true one, and "those his inftitutes appointed to live by his fervice." fharp fharp a manner, that the Cardinal was enforced not only to excufe himself with much fubmiffion, but to promise never to do fo any more; protesting withal, that he had made a last will and testament, wherein he had left a great part of his estate unto his Highnefs. "Upon which sub"miffion of the Cardinal, as I take it," fays Lord Herbert," the King sent him this letter, "written all with his own hand, as we find it "in our records: "As touching the matter of Wilton, seeing it ❝is in no other strain than you write of, and you being alfo fo fuddenly (with the falling fick of your fervants) afraid and troubled, I marvel "not that it overflipped you as it did. But it is no great matter, standing the case as it doth; "for it is yet in my hand, as I perceive by your letter, and your default was not fo great, feeing "the election was but conditional. Wherefore, 66 my Lord, seeing the humblenefs of your submission, and though the cafe were much more 66 heynous, I can be content for to remit it; "being right glad, that according to mine in"tent, my monitions and warnings have been benignly and lovingly accepted on your behalf; promifing you, that the very affection I "bear you caufed me thus to do. As touching "the help of religious houfes to the building of your Colledge, I would it were more, so it be 66 lawfully; for my intent is none but that it "fhould fo appear to all the world, and the oc"cafion of all their mumbling might be feclud "ed and put away; for furely, there is great murmuring of it throughout all the realm, "both good and bad. They fay not, that all "that is ill gotten is bestowed upon the Col 66 ledge, but that the Colledge is the cloak for "covering all mifchiefs. This grieveth me, I "affure you, to hear it spoken of him which I "fo entirely love. Wherefore, methought I "could do no lefs than thus friendly to ad"monish you. One thing more I perceive by your own letter, which a little, methinketh, "toucheth confcience; and that is, that you "have received money of the Exempts for having of their old Vifitors. Surely, this can hardly be with good confcience. "they were good, why fhould you For, and take money? "and if they were ill, it were a finful act. "Howbeit your legacy herein might peradven"ture apud homines be a cloak, but not apud "Deum. Wherefore you, thus monished by "him who fo entirely loveth you, I doubt not will defift not only from this, (if confcience "will not bear it,) but from all other things. "which fhould tangle the fame; and in fo doing, we will fing, 66 "Te laudant Angeli atque Archangeli. "And "And thus an end I make of this, though "rude yet loving letter, defiring you as bene"volently to take it as I do mean it; for I “ insure you (and I pray you think it fo) that "there remaineth at this hour no fpark of dif "pleasure towards you in my heart. And thus "fare you well, and be no more perplext. "Written with the hand of your loving Sove"reign and friend, " HENRY R." The Cardinal's naif and interefting Biographer gives the following account of his fall, and of the incidents that took place whilst it was impending. "Now," fays he, "the King commanded the "Queen (Catharine of Arragon) to be removed "from the Court, and fent to another place, "and presently after the King rode on progress, "and had in his company Mistress Anne Boleyn. "In which time Cardinal Campejus made fuit to "be discharged, and fent home to Rome; and " in the interim returned Mr. Secretary (Gar"diner); and it was concluded, that my Lord 66 (the Cardinal Wolfey) fhould come to the King to Grafton in Northamptonshire; as "alfo, that Cardinal Campejus, being a stranger, "fhould be conducted thither by my Lord Car"dinal. And fo next Sunday there were divers "opinions that the King would not speak with my Whereupon there were many my Lord. SL great wagers laid. "These two Prelates being come to the Court, "and alighting, expected to be received of the great Officers (as the manner was); but they "found the contrary. Nevertheless, because "the Cardinal Campejus was a ftranger, the "Officers met him with ftaves in their hands in "the outward court, and fo conveyed him to "his lodging prepared for him; and after my "Lord had brought him to his lodging he de"parted, thinking to have gone to his chamber, "as he was wont to doe; but it was told him, "he had no lodging or chamber appointed for "him in the Court, which news did much "aftonish him. "Sir Henry Norris, who was then Groom of "the Stole, came unto my Lord, and defired "him to take his chamber for a while, until "another was provided for him. For I affure 66 you (quoth he) here is but little room in this "houfe for the King, and therefore I humbly " befeech your Grace to accept of mine for a ❝ season. My Lord, thanking him for his "courtefie, went to his chamber, where he "fhifted his riding apparel. VOL. 1. G "In |