raciness. "Peto is an ipocrite
knave, as the most part of his brethren be; a wolf; a tiger clad in a
sheep's skin. It is a perilous knave--a raiser of sedition--an evil
reporter of the King's Highness--a prophecyer of mischief--a fellow I would
wish to be in the king's hands, and to be shamefully punished. Would God I
could get him by any policy--I will work what I can. Be sure he shall do
nothing, nor pretend to do nothing, in these parts, that I will not find
means to cause the King's Highness to know. I have laid a bait for him. He
is not able to wear the clokys and cucullys that be sent him out of
England, they be so many."
[674] Hacket to Henry VIII.: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 528.
[675] Ibid. p. 530.
[676] Hacket to Cromwell: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 531.
[677] So at least Henry supposed, if we may judge by the resolutions of the
Council "for the fortification of all the frontiers of the realm, as well
upon the coasts of the sea as the frontiers foreanenst Scotland." The
fortresses and havens were to be "fortefyed and munited;" and money to be
sent to York to be in readiness "if any business should happen."--Ibid.
vol. i. p. 411.
[678] 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 19.
[679] A design which unfortunately was not put in effect. In the hurry of
the time it was allowed to drop.
[680] 25 Henry VIII. cap. 14.
[681] 23 Henry VIII. cap. 20.
[682] At this very time Campeggio was Bishop of Salisbury, and Ghinucci,
who had been acting for Henry at Rome, was Bishop of Worcester. The Act by
which they were deprived speaks of these two appointments as _nominations_
by the king.--25 Henry VIII. cap. 27.
[683] Wolsey held three bishoprics and one archbishopric, besides the abbey
of St. Albans.
[684] Thus when Wolsey was presented, in 1514, to the See of Lincoln, Leo
X. writes to his beloved son Thomas Wolsey how that in his great care for
the interests of the Church, "Nos hodie Ecclesiae Lincolniensi, te in
episcopum et pastorem praeficere intendimus." He then informs the Chapter
of Lincoln of the appointment; and the king, in granting the temporalities,
continues the fiction without seeming to recognise it:--"Cum dominus summus
Pontifex nuper vacante Ecclesia cathedrali personam fidelis clerici nostri
Thomae Wolsey, in ipsius Ecclesiae episcopum praefecerit, nos," etc.--See
the Acts in RYMER, vol. vi. part 1, pp. 55-7.
[685] 25 Henry VIII. cap. 20. The pre-existing, unrealities with respect to
the electio
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