to Cromwell: ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 237.

[583] Where he was known among the English of the day as Master Frisky-all.

[584] See FOXE. vol. v. p. 392.

[585] Eustace Chappuys to Chancellor Granvelle: _MS. Archiv. Brussels:
Pilgrim_, p. 106.

[586] See Cromwell's will in an appendix to this chapter. This document,
lately found in the Rolls House, furnishes a clue at last to the
connections of the Cromwell family.

[587] Are we to believe Foxe's story that Cromwell was with the Duke of
Bourbon at the storming of Rome in May, 1527? See FOXE, vol. v. p. 365. He
was with Wolsey in January, 1527. See ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 117.
And he was again with him early in 1528. Is it likely that he was in Italy
on such an occasion in the interval? Foxe speaks of it as one of the random
exploits of Cromwell's youth, which is obviously untrue; and the natural
impression which we gather is, that he was confusing the expedition of the
Duke of Bourbon with some earlier campaign. On the other hand Foxe's
authority was Cranmer, who was likely to know the truth; and it is not
impossible that, in the critical state of Italian politics, the English
government might have desired to have some confidential agent in the Duke
of Bourbon's camp. Cromwell, with his knowledge of Italy and Italian, and
his adventurous ability, was a likely man to have been sent on such an
employment; and the story gains additional probability from another legend
about him, that he once saved the life of Sir John Russell, in some secret
affair at Bologna. See FOXE, vol. v. p. 367. Now, although Sir John Russell
had been in Italy several times before (he was at the Battle of Pavia, and
had been employed in various diplomatic missions), and Cromwell might thus
have rendered him the service in question on an earlier occasion, yet he
certainly was in the Papal States, on a most secret and dangerous mission,
in the months preceding the capture of Rome. _State Papers_, vol. vi. p.
560, etc. The probabilities may pass for what they are worth till further
discovery.

[588] A damp, unfurnished house belonging to Wolsey, where he was ordered
to remain till the government had determined upon their course towards him.
See CAVENDISH.

[589] CAVENDISH, pp. 269-70.

[590] Ibid. p. 276.

[591] Chappuys says, that a quarrel with Sir John Wallop first introduced
Cromwell to Henry. Cromwell, "not knowing how else to defend himself,
contrived with presents and