ction of the angle
been solved? or, if not, is there any reward for its solution; and what
steps should be taken to obtain it?

JOHN VINCENT LYSTER.

[The problem of the trisection of the angle by aid of the straight line
and circle, used as in Euclid, has never been solved--no reward was
ever offered for its solution.]

_Wolsey's Son._--Can any of your readers give an account of a son of
Cardinal Wolsey, whose existence is recorded in a letter from Eustace {304}
Chapuys to the Emperor Charles V., October 25, 1529, in the following
words:--

"The cardinal has now retired with a very small train to a place about
ten miles hence. A son of his has been sent for from Paris, who was
there following his studies, and of whom I have formerly made some
mention to your Majesty"--_Correspondence of Charles V._, p. 291.

Cardinal Beaton had lots of bastards, but I never remember to have seen in
any account of Wolsey mention made of natural children.

J. M.

[The existence of a natural son of Cardinal Wolsey is a _fact_ as well
ascertained as any other _fact_ of the Cardinal's history, and referred
to in the various biographies of him that have appeared. His name was
Thomas Winter. In Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_, vol. xxxii. pp.
255. and 256. _note_, reference is made to a Bull of Pope Julius II.,
dated August, 1508, to be found in Kennet's MSS. in the British Museum,
in which he is styled, "dilecti filio Thomae Wulcy," Rector of Lymington
diocese of Bath and Wells, Master of Arts, "_pro dispensatione ad
tertium incompatibile_." This is explained by the passage in Wood's
_Athenae Oxon. Fasti_, part i. p. 73. (Bliss ed.), relating to him.
"This Tho. Winter, who was nephew (or rather nat. son) to Cardinal Tho.
Wolsey, had several dignities confer'd upon him before he was of age,
by the means of the said Cardinal," viz. the archedeaconry of York,
1523; chancellorship of the church of Sarum; the deanery of Wells,
1525; the provostship of Beverly; and the archdeaconry of Richmond,
&c.: on which there is a note by Baker, that "this Tho. Winter is said
to have held of the church's goods clearly more than 2000 pds. per an."
Wood adds, that about the time of the Cardinal's fall, he gave up all
or most of his dignities, keeping only the archdeaconry of York, which
he resigned also in 1540. In Grove's _Life and Times of C