The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey (Pimlico) (165 page)

⁹²
LP
, iii, 3625.

⁹³
Gunn,
Charles Brandon
, pp.27, 32-3.

⁹⁴
Ibid, pp.50, 59.

⁹⁵
LP
, iv, 2807, 3884, 3997, 4324;
LP
, iv, app.11.

⁹⁶
LP
, iv, 3105;
LP
, iv, app.173.

⁹⁷
Inter alia LP
, iv, 3760, 3883.

⁹⁸
CWE, 2
, p.278.

⁹⁹
Ven. Cal
., iv, p.294.

¹⁰⁰
Gunn,
Charles Brandon
, pp.15, 33, 36, 98.

¹⁰¹
LP
, i, 3376.

¹⁰²
Gunn,
Charles Brandon
, pp.41-2.

¹⁰³
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.190-3.

¹⁰⁴
LP
, iv, p.1410.

¹⁰⁵
Inter alia
Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, pp.158-162.

¹⁰⁶
LP
, iv, 3318.

¹⁰⁷
LP
, iv, 3318.

¹⁰⁸
LP
, iv, 2368, 2377, 2407.

¹⁰⁹
King’s Works
, p.172, n.1.

¹¹⁰
LP
, iv, 3360.

¹¹¹
LP
, iv, 3360.

¹¹²
Bellay,
Ambassades
, pp.359-65 (
LP
, iv, 4649).

¹¹³
Sp. Cal., iii
(ii), pp.190-1.

¹¹⁴
Hall, p.721.

¹¹⁵
Mercers’ Company
, pp.749-50.

¹¹⁶
Hall, p.723.

¹¹⁷
Ibid, pp.742-4.

¹¹⁸
Ibid, p.744.

¹¹⁹
The reports of both Imperial and French ambassadors are an obvious source; see
inter alia
Bellay,
Ambassades
, p.365 (
LP
, iv, 4649);
Correspondence
, 324 (
LP
, iv, 5679);
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.178-85.

¹²⁰
LP
, iv, pp.1410-11.

¹²¹
LP
, iv, pp.1410-13.

¹²²
LP
, iv, 5862 for du Belley’s assessment to this effect.

¹²³
See Tunstall’s comments to this effect in Dec. 1525 in
LP
, iv, 1800.

¹²⁴
See p.455 above.

¹²⁵
Ven. Cal
., iv, p.295.

¹²⁶
At least he was alleged to have had doubts about the validity of the original dispensation; see Scarisbrick,
Henry
VIII
, p.13.

¹²⁷
Inter alia
Mendoza mentions hostility to the king in May 1527; see
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.190; also Hall, p.754. For hostility to government as a whole, see
Sp. Cal
., iii (2), p.444, 845-6, 862.

¹²⁸
LP
, iv, app.39.

¹²⁹
See p.298.

¹³⁰
St. P
, i, p.261 (
LP
, iv, 3360).

¹³¹
See Knowles,
Religious Orders
, iii, pp.161-3, 470; Goring,
Sussex Archaeological Collections
, cxvi.

¹³²
LP
, iv, 4507, 4509.

¹³³
LP
, iv, 4513.

¹³⁴
See pp.321 ff. above for the Wilton affair.

¹³⁵
LP
, iv, 5985; Knowles,
Religious Orders
, iii, p.470.

¹³⁶
LP
, iv, 5458.

¹³⁷
LP
, iv, 4044.

¹³⁸
Gunn,
Charles Brandon
, pp.102-3.

¹³⁹
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.193.

¹⁴⁰
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.432-3.

¹⁴¹
Bellay,
Ambassades
, p.360 (LP, iv, 4649 where placed wrongly in August). Du Bellay himself commented that if Wolsey were to stumble, there were plenty on the watch to pick him up which is surely not quite the same as saying that there was a faction plotting his overthrow. It is also true that in Sept.1528 Mendoza suggested that Wolsey was increasingly fearful of Anne’s growing influence; see
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.790.

¹⁴²
LP
, iv, 5210.

¹⁴³
LP
, iv, 5255.
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), pp.885-6.

¹⁴⁴
Bellay,
Correspondence
, p.19 (
LP
, iv, 5582) for du Bellay’s assessment to this effect of 22 May 1529.

¹⁴⁵
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.877 (
LP
, iv, 5177).

¹⁴⁶
Cavendish, pp.92-6.

¹⁴⁷
BL Vitellius B xii, fos, 168-9 (
LP
, iv, 5953), Thomas Alvard to Thomas Cromwell, 23 Sept.1529.

¹⁴⁸
Cavendish, pp.29-34.

¹⁴⁹
Suggested by Henry’s wish in 1527 for a dispensation allowing him to marry a woman who had already contracted to marry someone else provided there had been no consummation, and by the need in 1532 to obtain a statement from Henry Percy that no formal precontract had been entered into.

¹⁵⁰
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.432.

¹⁵¹
See pp.192-3 above.

¹⁵²
LP
, iv, 4081, 4584, 5210; see also Ives,
Anne Boleyn
, pp.126-7. I should perhaps mention that my account of Wolsey’s downfall was written before Ives’s biography appeared, and differs from it in a number of respects.

¹⁵³
Inter alia LP
, iv, 4649;
Sp. Cal
., iii (ii), p.790.

¹⁵⁴
LP
, iv, 4005.

¹⁵⁵
LP
, iv, 4081.

¹⁵⁶
LP
, iv, 4480.

¹⁵⁷
LP
, iv, 4360; see p.503 above.

¹⁵⁸
Dowling,
JEH
, 35; Ives,
Anne Boleyn
, pp.302-31, though both place the emphasis on a biblical humanism rather than on a commitment to Lutheran doctrine.

¹⁵⁹
See pp.192-3 above.

¹⁶⁰
Bellay,
Correspondence
, p.94 (
LP
, iv, 5983).

¹⁶¹
Bellay,
Correspondence
, pp.104-5 (
LP
, iv, 6003).

¹⁶²
Sp. Cal
., iv (i), pp.220-39, 292, 303.

¹⁶³
LP
, iv, 5213, 5302, 5348.

¹⁶⁴
LP
, iv, 5427 for Henry’s letter;
LP
, iv, 5428 for Wolsey’s.

¹⁶⁵
St. P
, vii, p.182 (
LP
, iv, 5635).

¹⁶⁶
St. P
, vii, p.183 (
LP
, iv, 5635).

¹⁶⁷
LP
, iv, 5862, 5582, 6011.

¹⁶⁸
St. P
, vii, p.183 (
LP
, iv, 5635).

¹⁶⁹
Suffolk set off on 17 May. On 21 May Wolsey reported receiving letters from Rome of 4 May (LP, iv, 5576). Admittedly seventeen days was fast; the norm from Venice was twenty-four, the fastest nine; see Braudel, i, p.362.

¹⁷⁰
Usually referred to as a cousin, but only a half-cousin: one of Bryan’s grandmothers was also Anne’s, but their mothers were only half-sisters; see Ives,
Anne Boleyn
for genealogical table.

¹⁷¹
St. P
, vii, pp.166-7 (
LP
, iv, 5481).

¹⁷²
St. P
, vii, p.170 (
LP
, iv, 5519).

¹⁷³
St. P
, vii, p.167 (
LP
, iv, 5519).

¹⁷⁴
As Wolsey’s secretary, though ever since the previous February he had been working almost full time on the divorce, and was to become royal secretary in July.

¹⁷⁵
LP
, iv, 5518.

¹⁷⁶
LP
, iv, app.173; also Gunn,
Charles Brandon
, pp.101-2.

¹⁷⁷
Bellay,
Correspondence
, pp.64-9 (
LP
, iv, 5862) for this episode.

¹⁷⁸
St. P
, i, p.343 (
LP
, iv, 5894) but for Tuke’s defence to Wolsey of the brevity of Gardiner’s letters see
LP
, iv, 5885.

¹⁷⁹
LP
, iv, 5918.

¹⁸⁰
LP
, iv, 5844.

¹⁸¹
LP
, iv, 5865;
Sp. Cal
., iv (i), p.189.

¹⁸²
Or at least reaching Wolsey’s household; see Thomas Alvard’s reference to them in
LP
, iv, 5953.