The King prefents ner. Empfon likewife acquired a very great Fortune, and lived in great Splendor to the Time of his Fall, at his House in Fleet-ftreet, near the King's Palace of Bridewell, which the King, upon his Conviction, was pleased to give to his Almoner, Wolfey. This Prefent must have been very confiderable, because, as is mentioned in the Grant, it had ten Gardens belonging to it. Hiftorians fay, the King made Wolfey this Present, in order to have him near the Court. Arguments for and against the King's Marriage. The next Matter of Confequence was, the King's marrying Catherine of Arragon, Prince Arthur's Widow. We have before obferved, what at first prevailed on Hen. the VIIth to contract his Son Henry to this Princefs. Those who favoured the Lady took the Liberty to urge, 1. That, if the King perfifted in not marrying her, it might make Spain too formidable, and too much expose his People to be ill used, either by By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq; Cooks, and fix Labourers in the fame Room. • In the Larder, one Yeoman and a Groom; in the Scullery, " one Yeoman and two Grooms; in the Buttery two Yeomen ' and two Grooms; in the Ewry 'fo many; in the Cellar, three Yeoman, three Pages; in the Chandlery, two Yeoman; in the Wayfary, two Yeoman; in the Wardrobe of Beds, the Master of the Wardrobe, ' and twenty Persons befides; in the Laundery, a Yeoman and a Groom, and thirteen Pages, two Yeoman Purveyors, and a 'Groom-Purveyor; in the Bakehouse, two Yeoman and Grooms; in the Wood-yard one Yeoman and a Groom; the in the Barn, one Yeoman; • Porters at the Gate, two Yeo men, and two Grooms; a • Yeoman in his Barge, and a Mafter of his Horfe; a Clark of the Stables, and a Yeoman of the fame; a Farrier, and a • Yeoman of the Stirrop; a Maltlour and fixteen Grooms, every one of them keeping ⚫ four Geldings. 6 Now will I declare unto you the Officers of his Chapple, and finging Men of the fame. First, he had there a Dean, a great Divine, and a • Man of excellent Learning, and a Sub-Dean, a Repeator of the Quire, a Gofpeller, an Epiftoler of the finging Priefts, " a Master of the Children; in the French or Spaniards. 2. That it would be monftrous to fend fo fair a Princefs back to Spain, who, by her difcreet Behaviour, had greatly gain'd the Good-will of the People. 3. That as it was plain the King would not live long without a Wife, he could not marry better, it being admitted, that she was a Lady of ftrict Virtue and Piety, of a fweet Temper and Carriage, not 22 Years of Age, beautiful, and learned in Languages as well as Sciences. 4. That, notwithstanding her former Marriage, fhe was still a Maid; and that the Princess had more than once, in a private Conversation with fome of the great Ladies of the Court, declared herself on that head. Lastly, The Scripture was offered in Favour of the Marriage, where it's faid, If Brethren dwell together, and one of them die and have no Child, the Wife of the Dead fhall not marry without unto a Stranger; her Husband's Brother fhall go in unto her, and take her to him to Wife, and perform the Duty of an Hufband's Brother unto her. Deut. xxv. 5 * The SECRET HISTORR of the CARDINAL, the Veftry, a Yeoman, and two Grooms, befides other Retainers that came thither at principal Feafts. And for the Furniture of his Chapple, it paffth my weak Capacity, to declare the Number of the coftly Ornaments, ⚫ and rich Jewels that were occupied in the fame; for I have feen in proceffion about the Hall, forty four rich Copes of one fettle worne, befides the rich Candlesticks, and o But ⚫ther neceffary Ornaments to 'the Furniture of the fame. Now you fhall understand, that he had two Crofs-bearers, and two Pillar-bearers in his great Chamber, and his PrivyChamber, all these Perfons; the Chief-Chamberlain, a Vice• Chamberlain, a Gentleman Ufher, befide one of his Privy Chamber: He had alfo twelve 'Waiters, and fix Gentlemen Waiters: Alfo he had nine or ten Lords, who had each of ⚫ them * The vulgate Bible has it, Quando habitaverint fratres fimul, & unus ex eis abfque liberis mortuus fuerit, Uxor defuncti non nubet alteri; fed accipiet eam frater ejus, & fufcitabit femen fratris fui -It's true, fome of our modern Commentators and Tranflators, have endeavoured to explain away the Meaning of the Word Frater, by turning it into Kinfman. But the Opponents argued, that, tho' Henry the VIIth at first promoted the Match, he afterwards charged his Son to break the Contract, owning, that he was convinced it was unlawful, for which Reason the King, when Prince of Wales, was from time to time debarred from feeing that Princess, left Affection fhould rife from Converfation, which fometimes grows unmanageable in young People. To this may be added, that, when Prince Henry was contracted to this Lady he was fcarce 14 Years of Age, and, confequently, too young to hear Debates about Cafes of Confcience, whether it was lawful or not lawful to marry his Brother's Widow; and therefore what he did relating to the before-mentioned Proteftation, was done by the Direction of his Father, and not the Refult of Ill-will to the Princefs, as fome would infinuate. These different Arguments were foon followed by a Memorial preferred by the Spanish Ambaffador, in Relation By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq; them two or three Men to wait upon him, except the Earl of Darby, who had five Men. Then he had Gentlemen"Cup-bearers, and Carvers, and one of the Sewers, both of the great Chamber, and of the Privy Chamber forty Perfons; fix Yeomen Ufhers, eight • Grooms of his Chamber: Alfo he had of Alms, who were daily Waiters of his Board at 'Dinner, twelve Doctors and Chaplains, besides them of his, which I never rehearsed; a • Clerk of his Clofet, and two 'Secretaries, and two Clerks of his Signet; four Counsellors ⚫ learned in the Law. And for that he was Chancellor of England, it was ne ceffary to have Officers of the Chancery to attend him for the ⚫ better Furniture of the fame. • First, he had a Riding Clerk, a Clerk of the Crown, a Clerk of the Hanaper, a Chafer; then had he a Clerk of the Check, as well upon the Chaplains, as upon the Yeomen of the Chamber: He had alfo four Footmen gar ́nished with rich running Coats, whenfoever he had any Journey: Then he had a Herald of Arms, a Serjeant of Arms; a Phyfician, and Apothecary; four Minftrels, a Keeper of his Tents, an Armourer; an Inftructor of his Wardrobe of Robes, a Keeper of his Cham⚫ber continually; he had alfo • in Relation to the King's Marriage with the Princefs; fo that it now came to be debated in Council, wherein, those who were against the Marriage alledged, that a Man's marrying his Brother's Widow was a Thing unheard of among Chriftians; that fuch a Match was contrary to the Law of God, and therefore it was a Question, whether the Pope had Power to dispense with it. Archbishop Warham ftrongly oppofed the Marriage, and declared, he could not help confidering fuch a one as downright inceftuous: But Bishop Fox was of another Mind, he ftrenuously infifted on the Pope's Difpenfation to be lawful, taking Notice at the fame Time of the unlimited Power of Christ's Vicar; and, as the Pope had granted the Difpenfation, he thought it enough to fatisfy the King's Confcience, more especially as the Princefs had declared herself to be a Maid, and that there was no room to doubt but what she faid was true. Upon this the King and Council, much better approving The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL, in his Houfe a Surveyor of York, a Clerk of the GreenCloth. All these were daily attending down-lying, and uprifing. And at Meat, he had eight continual Boards for the • Chamberlains the to a great number of Perfons. Now having declared the Order, according to the Cheyne Roll of his House, and what • Officers he had daily attending and Gentle-to furnish the fame, befides Retainers, and other Perfons being Suiters dined in the • Hall. And when shall we fee men Officers, having a Mess of young Lords, and another • of Gentlemen: Befides this, there was never a Gentleman 6 or Officer, or other worthy Perfon, but he kept fome two, fome three Perfons to wait upon them; and all others at the leaft had one, which did amount 6 the Arguments offered for the Marriage, than those against it, came to a Refolution that it fhould be folemnized. Dr. Fiddes, in his Account of this Marriage, fays, "Some have thought that the King married this La"dy more out of Refpect to filial Piety, and for his "Father's first Appointment, than for the Devotion "he really had for her. But there was nothing in "the Temper of the King that should induce us to "form fuch a Judgment of him: It's rather to be be“lieved he acted in this Matter by the Advice of his "Council; and the King, to fhew he was well pleased "with the Refolution, on the 3d of March, "married the Princefs." Kennet fays, at the Bishop of Salisbury's Houfe in Fleet-ftreet, but Stow avers, the King married her in his Clofet at Greenwich, having before declared, that he would not be crowned till it was compleated; and, among other Ceremonies fuitable to the Occafion, By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq; CH A P. VI. The Marri age folem nized. Of his Second Embassage to the Emperor Charles the Vtb. W HEN he was thus " as I have before rehearsed un to you, he was fent twice on Embaffage to the Emperor Charles the Vth, that now reigneth, and Father to King Philip, now our Lord and Sovereign: Forafmuch as the old Emperor Maximilian was dead, and for divers other urgent Occafions touching his Majefty, it was thought fit, that about fuch weighty Mat⚫ters, and to fo noble a Prince, the Cardinal was most meet to be fent on this Embaffage, and he, being one ready to VOL. II. 6 the take the Charge thereof upon • him, was furnished in every refpect most like a great Prince, which was much to the Honour of his Majefty, ' and of this Realm: For first he proceeded forth like to a Cardinal, having all Things correfpondent; his Gentlemen, being very many in Number, were cloathed in Livery-coats of Crimson Velvet of the best, and Chains of Gold about their Necks; and his Yeomen, and all his mean Officers were clad in fine Scarlet guarded with ⚫ black Velvet one Hand breadth. • Thus furnished, he was twice fent D |