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"Soon after thefe incidents, the King fent "the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk to demand "the Great Seal from the Cardinal. This was “foon afterwards followed by the Cardinal's ar"reft, and his death."

The following diftich was left upon the walls of the Cardinal's College, now that of ChriftChurch, in Oxford, whilft it was building:

Non ftabat ifta domus, multis fundata rapinis ;
Aut cadet, aut alius raptor habebit eam.

Thefe walls, which rapine rais'd, what ills await,
By the juft judgment of unerring fate!
Soon or to ruin they shall fall a prey,
Or own a new ufurper's lawless fway.

The foundation-ftone of the College which the Cardinal founded at Ipfwich was discovered a few years ago. It is now in the Chapter-house of Chrift-Church, Oxford.

One of the most curious and entertaining pieces of biography in the English language is the account of the life of this great Child of Fortune by his gentleman-ufher, Sir William Cavendish. It was first printed in the year 1641 by the Puritans, with many additions and interpolations, to render Archbishop Laud odious, by fhewing how far an Archbishop had once carried Church

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power. Mr. Grove, about the year 1761, publifhed a correct edition of this Work, collated from the various MSS. of it in the Museum and in other places.

According to this narrative, the Cardinal fays to Master Kingston upon his death-bed, "Let his "Grace," meaning Henry the Eighth, " con"fider the story of King Richard the Second, "fon of his progenitor, who lived in the time "of Wickliffe's feditions and herefies. Did not "the Commons, I pray you, in his time rise "against the nobility and chief governors of this "realm, and at the last some of them were put "to death without juftice or mercy? And, under "pretence of having all things common, did "they not fall to spoiling and robbing, and at "laft tooke the Kinge's perfon, and carried him "about the city, making him obedient to their "proclamations ?"

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"Alas, if these be not plain precedents and "fufficient perfuafions to admonish a Prince, "then God will take away from us our prudent "rulers, and leave us to the hands of our enemies, "& then will enfue mifchiefe upon mischiefe, "inconveniencies, barrenneffe, & fcarcitie, for "want of good order in the Commonwealth,

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may have good fucceffe! My time drawes on, "I may not tarrie with you. I pray remember 66 my words."

Wolfey was buried in the Church of the Abbey of Leicester, on the 30th of November 1530, before day, and not (as Lord Herbert fays) at Windfor, where he had begun a monument for himself; "wherein, as it appears," adds he,

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own image, which one Benedetto, a ftatuary "of Florence, took in hand in 1524, and con"tinued till 1529, receiving for so much as was

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already done 4250 ducats; the defigne whereof "was fo glorious, that it exceeded far that of "Henry the Seventh. Neverthelesse I find the "Cardinal, when this was finished, did purpose "to make a tombe for Henry the Eighth *. But dying in this manner, the King made ufe of

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* Osborne obferves, that "Wolfey fhewed himfelf no "accomplished courtier when he laid the foundation of a grave for a living King, who could not be delighted with "the fight of his tomb, though never fo magnificent: "having lived in fo high fenfuality, as I may doubt whether " he would have exchanged it for the joys of Heaven itself.”

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"fo much as he found fit, and called it his. "Thus did the tomb of the Cardinal partake "the fame fortune with his College, as being "affumed by the King. The news of the Car"dinal's death being brought to the King, it did "fo much afflict him, that he wifhed it had coft "him twenty thousand pounds, upon condition "that he had lived. Howbeit, he omitted not "to inquire of about fifteen hundred pounds. which the Cardinal had lately got, without "that the King could imagine how."

It is faid in the Preface to a Grammar written by Mr. Haynes, the fchoolmaster of ChriftChurch, that Cardinal Wolfey made the Accidence before Lily's Grammar.

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"The Cardinal was a fhort lufty man," fays Aubrey, "not unlike Martin Luther, as appears "by the paintings that remain of him." great writer obferves, that few ever fell from fo high a fituation with lefs crimes objected to him than Cardinal Wolfey: yet it must be remembered, that he gave a precedent to his rapacious Sovereign of feizing on the wealth of the Monafteries, which however the Cardinal might well apply, (fuppofing that injuftice can ever be fanctified by its confequences,) by bestowing it on the erection of feminaries of learning, yet that wealth, in the hands of Henry, became the means of pro

fufion and oppreffion; and corrupted and fubjugated that country, which it ought to have improved and protected.

CARDINAL CAMPEJUS.

WHEN Campejus was in England on the bu finefs of King Henry's divorce, he spent his time in hunting and gaming, and brought over with him a natural fon, whom the King knighted. The Duke of Suffolk often afked his Majefty, how he could debafe himself fo, as to fubmit his cause to such a vile, vicious, stranger priest?

Menage fays, that there was a man of Campejus's acquaintance who took fuch care of his beard, that it coft him three crowns a month. The Cardinal told him one day, "That, by-andby, his beard would coft more than his head "was worth."

Many letters written by Campejus, peculiarly interesting on the history of his own time, are to be met with in "Epiftolarum Mifcellanearum "Libri X.

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