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Title: The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Cavendish, George, 1500-1561? Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
Subjects: Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530 Statesmen Cardinals
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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was also a cloth of estate under thewhich sat the king; and the queen sat some distance beneath theking: under the judges feet sat the officers of the court. Thechief scribe there was Dr. Stephens (which was after Bishopof Winchester); the apparitor was one Cooke, most commonlycalled Cooke of Winchester. Then sat there within the saidcourt, directly before the king and judges, the Archbishop ofCanterbury, Doctor Warham, and all the other bishops. Thenat both the ends, with a bar made for them, the counsels onboth sides. The doctors for the king was Doctor Sampson,which was after Bishop of Chichester, and Doctor Bell, whichafter was Bishop of Worcester, with divers other. The proctorson the kings part were Doctor Peter, which was after made thekings chief secretary, and Doctor Tregonell, and divers other. Now on the other side stood the counsel for the queen, Doc-tor Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Doctor Standish, some timea Grey Friar, and then Bishop of St. Asaph in Wales, two not-
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Cartanai Wolxtp 81 able clerks in divinity, and in especial the Bishop of Rochester,a very godly man and a devout person, who after suffered deathat Tower Hill; the which was greatly lamented through allthe foreign Universities of Christendom. There was also an-other ancient doctor, called, as I do remember, Doctor Ridley,a very small person in stature, but surely a great and an excel-lent clerk in divinity. The court being thus furnished and ordered, the judgescommanded the crier to command silence; then was thejudges commission, which they had of the pope, published andread openly before all the audience there assembled. Thatdone, the crier called the king, by the name of King Harryof England, come into the court, etc With that the kinganswered and said, * Here, my lords! Then he called also thequeen, by the name of Catherine Queen of England, comeinto the court, etc.who made no answer to the same, butrose up incontinent out of her chair, where as she sat, and be-cause she could not

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