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 Prefent, in order to have him near the Court.

Cooks, and fix Labourers in the fame Room.

In the Larder, one Yeoman and a Groom; in the Scullery, · one Yeoman and two Grooms;

The next Matter of Confequence was, the King's marrying Catherine of Arragon, Prince Arthur's Widow. We have before obferved what at firft 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 expofe his People to be ill used, either by the

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 Perfons befides; in the Laundery, a Yeoman and

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a Groom, and thirteen Pages, < two Yeoman Purveyors, and a 'Groom-Purveyor; in the Bake

house, two Yeoman and • Grooms; in the Wood-yard Yeoman and a Groom;

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Arguments for and against the King's Marriage.

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in the Barn, one Yeoman; Porters at the Gate, two Yeomen, and two Grooms; a • Yeoman in his Barge, and a • Master of his Horfe; a Clark ' of the Stables, and a Yeoman

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of the fame; a Farrier, and a • Yeoman of the Stirrop; Maltlour and fixteen Grooms, every one of them keeping four Geldings.

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 Gospeller, an Epiftoler of the finging Priefts, " a Master of the Children; in

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the French or Spaniards. 2. That it would be monftrous to fend fo fair a Princess 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 ftill a Maid; and that the Princess had more than once, in a private Converfation 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 Husband's Brother unto ber. Deut. xxv. 5:

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The SECRET HISTORR of the CARDINAL,

*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 Princefs, left Affection should rife from Conversation, 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 Princess, as fome would infinuate.

Thefe different Arguments were foon followed by a Memorial preferred by the Spanish Ambaffador, in Relation

them two or three Men to wait upon him, except the Earl of Darby, who had five Men.

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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, befides 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.

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ceffary to have Officers of the Chancery to attend him for the 'better Furniture of the fame.

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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 Minstrels, a Keeper of his Tents, an Armourer; an Inftructor of his Wardrobe of Robes, a Keeper of his Chamber continually; he had alfo

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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 Princess had declared herfelf to be a Maid, and that there was no room to doubt but what fhe faid was true. Upon this the King and Council, much better approving

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the Arguments offered for the Marriage, than thofe against it, came to a Refolution that it fhould be folemnized.

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Dr. Fiddes, in his Account of this Marriage, fays, "Some have thought that the King married this Lady more out of Respect 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 says, at the age folemBishop of Salisbury's Houfe in Fleet-Street, nized. 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, the

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6 as I have before rehearfed 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 Matters, and to fo noble a Prince, the Cardinal was moft meet to ⚫ be fent on this Embaffage, and he, being one ready to Vot. II.

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Of his Second Embassage to the Emperor Charles the Vth,

WHEN he was thus

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

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