To the Right Honourable William Carl of Besborow This Plate is humbly Inscribed by his Lordships most humble &most obedient Servant Joseph Grove THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE and TIMES O F Cardinal W OLSEY, Prime Minister to King HENRY VIII. I. Of his Birth, and the various Steps he took to attain Preferment, connected with Affairs, both Foreign and Domestick, from the Death of EDWARD IV. to the End of the Reign of HENRY VII. to his Difgrace and Death,'in cluding the general Tranfactions of Europe. III. Memoirs of the Emperor CHARLES V. HENRY VIII. and FRANCIS I. from the Demife of the Cardinal to their respective Deaths. II. Of his Conduct and Ma-IV. The fecret Hiftory of the nagement while Prime Minifter, (commencing with the Reign of HENRY VIII.) and continued by way of Annals In which are Cardinal, by George Cavendifh, Efq; his Gentleman Ufher; written in the Reign of PHILIP and MARY. interspersed The LIVES and memorable ACTIONS of the moft eminent Perfons: And the whole illuftrated with POLITICAL and MORAL Reflections. Collected from antient RECORDS, MANUSCRIPTS, and HISTORIANS. Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Cic. Oh fatal Love of Fame! Oh glorious Heat! VOL. IV. ADDIS. Adorned with CUTS, and a compleat INDEX. LONDO N: Printed, by J. PURSER, for the AUTHOR ; And fold by J. and P. KNAPTON, W. MEADOWS, E. LEWIS, D. BROWNE, J. STAGG, J. CLARKE, S. AUSTEN, T. ASTLEY, C. DAVIS, J. HODGES, J. SHUCKBURGH, J. WORRAL, C. BATHURST, R. WILLOCK, J. NOURSE, T. WALLER, E. COMINS, E. WITHERS, W. SANDBY, H. CHAPELLE R. DODSLEY, and C. WARD at York. MDCCXLIV. |