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45
LP
, iv.5750. For this highly individual character see ibid., ii.295, 3486, 3659, 3831, pp. 1459, 1460; iii.3680, 3681; iv.39, 955, 4560, 5459, 5806-9. See also G. Stein,
John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist
(Oxford, 1997). Murphy dates this material as early as 1528:
Bastard Prince
, p. 76.
 
46
Ibid., iv.5749; cf. Guy,
Public Career of More
, pp. 106-7, 206-7.
 
47
Wolsey’s own phrase.
 
48
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.11 at p. 40 [
LP
, iv.5679].
 
49
Cal. S. P. Span
., 1529 — 30, p. 133; Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 758; cf. du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.7 at p. 19 [LP, iv.5582]. Gardiner also warned the envoys at Rome of the danger to Wolsey, though this could have been a diplomatic tactic:
LP
, iv. 5715.
 
50
Hall,
Chronicle
, pp. 758-9. The ‘book’ could have been the final version of Darcy’s charges. Henry intended to leave Greenwich on 2 Aug., and had left by 4 Aug.:
LP
, iv.5965, 5825. The decision to issue the writs for a parliament was clearly made before the close roll entry date of 9 Aug.: ibid., iv.5837.
 
51
Ibid., iv.5816. The fact that the grant to Rochford is called a (signed) bill shows that it was very recent.
 
52
Ives, in
Cardinal Wolsey
, ed. Gunn and Lindley, pp. 293 — 4.
 
53
Ellis,
Letters
, 3 i.345 [
LP
, iv.5825], cf.
LP
, iv.4428.
 
54
Ibid., iv.5749 at p. 2549.
 
55
Cal. S. P. Span
., 1527-29, p. 927.
 
56
LP
, iv.5700, 5710, 5712; du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.17 at p. 58 [
LP
, iv.5742].
 
57
Du Bellay,
Correspondance,
i.17 at pp. 58-60 [
LP
, iv.5742].
 
58
Ibid., 16 at pp. 52-3
[LP
, iv.5741];
LP
, iv.5733.
 
59
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.22 at pp. 64-5 [
LP
, iv.5862]. See p. 117.
 
60
Ibid., 17 at p. 58 [LP, iv.5742].
 
61
LP
, iv.5801, 5891.
 
62
LP
, iv.5713, 5893.
 
63
LP
, iv.5881; du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.24 at pp. 70-1, 26 at pp. 73-4 [
LP
, iv.5911, 5912].
 
64
St.Pap.,
i. 337-8 [
LP
, iv.5875].
 
65
LP
, iv.5882, 5883.
 
66
St. Pap
., i.340, 342 [
LP
, iv.5885, 5894].
 
67
Ibid., i.342 [
LP
, iv.5890].
 
68
Ibid., i.342-3 [
LP
, iv.5894]. Gardiner quoted the tag: ‘we can more easily regret the past than put it right.’
 
69
This is clear from the following.
 
70
RO, SP 1/55 f. 120 [
LP
, iv.5918].
 
71
LP
, iv.5883, 5923.
 
72
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.24 at pp. 70, 72 [
LP
, iv.5911 ].
 
73
Cal. S. P. Span
., 1529-30, p. 195.
 
74
Du Bellay,
Correspondence
, i.43 at pp. 109-10 [
LP
, iv.6019].
 
75
St. Pap
., i.344 [
LP,
iv.5936]. The date of the proposed interview has been lost through damage to the MS, but it must be 19 Sept.
 
76
Cavendish,
Wolsey
pp. 92-7;
Cal. S. P
.
Span
.,
1529

30
, pp. 214, 235, 257; cf. Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 759.
 
77
Cal. S. P. Span
.,
1529

30
, p. 222.
 
78
Ellis,
Letters
, 1 i.307-10 [
LP
, iv.5953]. The reading ‘Grene[wich]’ by Ellis and
LP
is incorrect.
 
79
There is a curious letter of 29 Aug. in which Tuke provides an encomium for Gardiner:
St. Pap.,
i.339 [
LP
, iv.5885 ].
 
80
Cal. S. P. Span
., 1529-30, p. 234.
 
81
Ibid., pp. 276-7; Cavendish,
Wolsey
, p. 97;
LP
, iv.6035; du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.37 at pp. 91-2 [
LP
, iv.5982].
 
82
Wolsey surrendered the great seal on either 17 or 18 Oct.: Guy,
Public Career of More
, p. 31 n.179;
LP
, iv.6017.
 
83
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.43, 44 at pp. 110-12 [
LP
, iv.6011, 6018].
 
84
Ibid., 46 at p. 115 [
LP
, iv.6030];
Cal
.
S. P. Span.
,
1529

30
, p. 303 [
LP
, iv.6026].
 
85
Ibid., pp. 295-6 [
LP
, iv.6026].
 
86
Cavendish,
Wolsey
, p. 137.
 
87
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.44 at p. 113 [
LP
, iv.6019].
 
88
Ibid., 38 at p. 94 [
LP
, iv.5983].
 
89
Ibid., 41
bis
, at pp. 104-5.
 
90
Ibid., 41
bis
, at p. 105.
 
91
Ibid., 41
bis
, at p. 105;
LP
, iv.5996.
 
Chapter 9 Stalemate, 1529

1532
 
1
LP
, v.App.26.
 
2
Cal. S. P. Span.
, p. 196.
 
3
Returned from Paris mid-Feb., in post by 21 Dec. 1530: ibid., pp. 467, 854.
 
4
Ibid., p. 366; cf.
St. Pap
., vii. 370 [
LP
, v.1025].
 
5
Cf. the comments on the polite formality of Henry and Katherine:
Cal
. S. P.
Ven., 1527

33,
584.
 
6
Ibid., 224.
 
7
Ibid., 241; Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 768.
 
8
Nicolas,
Privy Purse
, p. 13;
Cal. S. P. Span
.,
1529

30
, p. 446.
 
9
Cavendish,
Wolsey
, p. 137.
 
10
J. H. Baker,
Reports of John Caryll,
ii (Selden Soc. 116, 2000), 683-92.
 
11
Ibid., ii.691. Cf. E. W. Ives, ‘Crime, sanctuary and royal authority under Henry VIII’, in On
the Laws and Customs of England
, ed. M. S. Arnold et al. (Chapel Hill, NC, 1981), pp. 299-303.
 
12
Harpsfield,
More
, p. 193.
 
13
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.46 at p. 115 [
LP
, iv.6030 ].
 
14
Cal. S. P. Span
.,
1529-30,
p. 368; and p. 384 n. 16.
 
15
Ibid., pp. 449-50, 469;
LP
, iv.6094, 6181-2, 6262, 6411, 6436, 6447.
 
16
Ibid., iv.6579, 6688;
Cal. S. P. Span., 1529-30,
pp. 630, 819; cf.
Cal. S. P. Ven., 1527-33
, 637: ‘Everyday I miss the cardinal of York.’
 
17
LP
, iv.6112.
 
18
St. Pap
., i.352 [LP, iv. 6114].
 
19
Cavendish,
Wolsey
, p. 121.
 
20
Cal. S. P. Span.
,
1529 — 30
, p. 450.
 
21
Ibid., p. 449;
LP,
iv.6076.
 
22
Ibid., iv. 6290;
Cal. S. P. Span., 1529 — 30,
pp. 436, 630, 711, 721.
 
23
Ibid., p. 819. Walsh left to arrest Wolsey on 1 Nov. 1530. For Norfolk’s absence and recall on 29 Oct.: ibid., p. 788.
 
24
L. R. Gardiner, ‘Further news of Cardinal Wolsey’s end’, in
BIHR
, 57 (1984), 99-107;
LP
, iv. 6720;
St. Pap.
, vii.211 [
LP
, iv.6733 ].
 
25
Cal. S. P. Span
., 1529 — 30, pp. 805, 820;
Cal. S. P. Ven.
, 1527 — 30, 642.
 
26
For a detailed study of the period 1529-32 see Guy,
Public Career of More
, although the following differs at a number of points.
 
27
Gunn,
Brandon
, p. 116.
 
28
Guy,
Career of More
, pp. 102-8.
 
29
For Norfolk’s desperation to move Charles V and Clement VII:
Cal
.
S. P. Span
.,
1529 — 30
, pp. 510 — 11. This may be connected with Wolsey’s doctor being still in Norfolk’s hands on 1 Mar. but at Ghent by 23 Mar. 1531, representing the duke to the imperial government:
LP
, v. 120, 153, 283. In fairness to Norfolk, he did present to Henry a copy of the 14th-century chronicle of William of Nangis in which the king made a number of marginal notes, many relating to papal authority and the issue of consanguinity [BL, MS Royal 13 E iv]. I owe this reference to the kindness of Prof. J. P. Carley.
 
30
The source followed here is Cranmer’s secretary, Morrice
[Narratives of the Reformation,
pp. 240 — 2 ], not the reworking by Foxe,
Acts and Monuments,
viii.7 — 8, with the king’s supposed remark that Cranmer had ‘the sow by the right ear’.
 
31
MacCulloch,
Cranmer
, pp. 36, 44-6.
 
32
Narratives of the Reformation
, p. 242.
 
33
It is not clear why Henry had not followed similar earlier hints: MacCulloch,
Cranmer
, p. 46.
 
34
Du Bellay,
Correspondance
, i.22 at p. 65 [LP, iv.5862].
 
35
MacCulloch,
Cranmer
, p. 46, notes that Foxe suggests an earlier meeting in London, but Henry only returned to Greenwich on 24 October at the end of the summer progress: N. Samman, ‘The Henrician Court during Cardinal Wolsey’s Ascendancy’ (University of Wales, Ph.D. thesis, 1988), p. 386. The difficulties about this meeting, raised by Jasper Ridley,
Cranmer
, pp. 24-8, are overcome by dating it soon after Henry’s return to Greenwich following the summer progress, i.e. the earliest practical moment. Cf. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 255; MacCulloch,
Cranmer
, p. 46.
 
36
MacCulloch,
Cranmer
, p. 47.
 
37
Ibid., p. 48; Ridley,
Cranmer,
pp. 29 — 31.
 
38
For the following see
Narratives of the Reformation
, pp. 52-7; George Wyatt, in
Wolsey
, ed. Singer, pp. 438-41; for the book campaign see
LP
, iv.5416. The latest possible date of the episode is before the court went on progress at the start of August.

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