Wolsey
THOMAS, CARDINAL, an English prelate; born in Ipswich, England, in March, 1471; was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his degrees as a scholar of distinction.
After quitting the university he was ap pointed to the parish of Lymington in ハリハ CARDINAL THOMAS WOLSEY Somerset. Then he became a private chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, one of the governors of Calais, chaplain to Henry VII., and latterly Dean of Lincoln. When Henry VIII. became king, the advancement of Wolsey was rapid. Successively he was appointed Canon of Windsor, Dean of York, Bishop of Lincoln, Archbishop of York, and his nomination as cardinal in 1515 and Pope's legate in 1518 completed his ecclesiastical dignities. In 1515 he was also appointed lord-chancellor of the kingdom. He was twice a candidate for as also his revenues, were only equalled the papacy, and his power in England, WOMAN SUFFRAGE the papacy, and his power in England, sober second thought of the great as also his revenues, were only equalled by those of the crown. Part of his immagnificent scale the College of Christ ment of learning. He projected on a and part more laudably for the advancement of learning. He projected on a magnificent scale the College of Christ This rapid preferment by the king was tures, and built the palace of Hampton Court, which he presented to the king. of diplomatic victories, in which Wolsey largely the result of a remarkable ble series of diplomatic victories, in which Wolsey had been the means of enabling Henry to hold the balance between Francis I. and the Emperor Charles V. His success in the region of politics terminated in the splendors of the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1520). In his ambitious career the cardinal had made many enemies, who were held in check so long as he retained the favor of his royal master. This favor Wolsey lost when he failed to obtain from Pope Clement a decision granting the king's divorce from Catharine of Aragon. Thenceforth the enemies of the fallen prelate harried him unmercifully. He was banished from court, stripped of his dignities, found guilty of a præmunire, and sentenced to imprisonment. Finally, after a brief respite, during which he was restored to some of his offices, and had returned to his see of York, he was arrested at Cawood Castle on a charge of high treason, and on his way to London as a prisoner died Castle on a charge of high treason, and in Leicester Abbey, Nov. 29, 1530.