To the Right Honourable William Carl of Besborow This Plate is humbly Inscribed by his Lordships most humble &most obedient Servant

Ioseph Grove

Prime Minister to King HENRY VIII.
I. Of his Birth, and the various to his Disgrace and Death, in-

Steps he took to attain Pre- cluding the general Transac-
ferment, connected with Af-

tions of Europe. fairs, both Foreign and Do-||III. Memoirs of the Emperor mestick, from the Death of CHARLES V. HENRY VIII. EDWARD IV. to the End and FRANCIS I. from the of the Reign of Henry Demise of the Cardinal

to VII,

their respective Deaths. II. Of his Conduct and Ma-l IV. The secret History of the

nagement while Prime Mini- Cardinal, by George Caven-
fter, commencing with the dish, Efq; his Gentleman Usher,
Reign of HENRY VIII.) and written in the Reign of PHILIP
continued by way of Annals!! and MARY.

In which are interspersed
The Lives and memorable Actions of the most eminent

Persons : And the whole illustrated 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 ! Ob glorious Heat !
Only destructive to the Brave and Great.

ADDIS.
VOL. II. Adorn'd with Cuts, and a compleat INDEX.

L O N D 0
Printed by J. PURSER, for the AU THOR,
And sold by J. STAGG, in Westminster-Hall; H. CHAPELLE,

in Grosvenor-street; R. DODSLEY, in Pall mall; J. Nourse and
R. SANDRY, at Temple-Bar, J. WORRAL, in Bell yard; J. WHIS-
TON, in Fleet-street; T. Astley, in St. Paul's Church-yard; J.
CLARKE, W.Meadows, J.Crokart, and R. WILLOCK, at the
Royal Exchange ; R. CHANDLER and C. WARD, at York and Scar-
borough; and J. HUGGONSON, on Ludgate-Hill

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RIGHT HONOURABLE

Arthur Onslow, Era

SPEAKER of the Honourable

House of COMMONS,

THIS

SECOND VOLUME

OF THE

LIFE and TIMES

OF

Cardinal W OLSEY,

Is Most Humbly DEDICATED,

BY

His moft Obedient,

Humble Servant,