OF CARDINAL WOLSEY BY GEORGE CAVENDISH HIS GENTLEMAN-USHER ΤΟ WHICH IS ADDED THOMAS CHURCHYARD'S WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THIRD EDITION LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, AND NEW YORK 1890 MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY. Goethe's Faust. 4. Chronicle of the Cid. 5. Rabelais' Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel. 6. Machiavelli's Prince. 7. Bacon's Essays. 8. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. 9. Locke on Civil Government and Filmer's "Patriarcha." 10. Butler's Analogy of Religion. II. Dryden's Virgil. 12. Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft. 13. Herrick's Hesperides. 14. Coleridge's Table-Talk. 15. Boccaccio's Decameron. 16. Sterne's Tristram Shandy. 17. Chapman's Homer's Iliad. 18. Medieval Tales. 19. Voltaire's Candide, and Johnson's Rasselas. 20. Jonson's Plays and Poems. 21. Hobbes's Leviathan. 22. Samuel Butler's Hudibras. 23. Ideal Commonwealths. 24. Cavendish's Life of Wolsey. 25 & 26. Don Quixote. 27. Burlesque Plays and Poems. 28. Dante's Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation. 29. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems.' 30. Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit. (Hitopadesa.) 31. Lamb's Essays of Elia. 32. The History of Thomas Ellwood. 33 Emerson's Essays, &c. 34. Souther's Life of Nelson. 35. De Quincey's Confession of an Opium-Eater, &c. 36. Stories of Ireland. By Miss EDGEWORTH. 37. Frere's Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds, 38. Burke's Speeches and Letter. 39. Thomas à Kempis. 40. Popular Songs of Ireland. 41. Potter's Eschylus. 42. Goethe's Faust: Part II. ANSTER'S Translation. 43. Famous Pamphlets. 44. Francklin's Sophocles. 45. M. G. Lewis's Tales of Terror and Wonder. 46. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. 47. Drayton's Barons' Wars, Nymphidia, &c.. 48. Cobbett's Advice to Young Men. "Marvels of clear type and general neatness."—Daily Telegraph. INTRODUCTION. GEORGE CAVENDISII, a gentleman of Wolsey's household, who continued loyal to the Church of Rome after his master's death, told in this book, from his own knowledge, his master's life. From a reference in the book to King Philip as "now our sovereign lord," we learn that it was written between the 25th of July 1554 and November 1558. But a reference near the close of the book to a Mr. Radcliffe, as son and heir to the Lord Fitzwalter and now Earl of Sussex, places the writing of the book before the 17th of February 1557, when that Earl of Sussex died. A life of Wolsey by one who had no goodwill to the dissolution of the monasteries or respect for Anne Boleyn could not be printed in Elizabeth's reign. The original manuscript is said to have been in the hands of the Pierrepoint family, but the interest of such a narrative from one who lived in Wolsey's household, and was an eyewitness of much that he tells, caused a demand for copies. More than a dozen of them are now known: two are in the British Museum; two are in the library at 14422 (RECAP) .983 0 |