item: #1 of 9 id: 15537 author: Froude, James Anthony title: The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) date: None words: 212089 flesch: 63 summary: Like other men of genius, Wolsey also combined practical sagacity with an unmeasured power of hoping. By the contagion of example he gathered about him other men who thought as he did; and gradually, under his captaincy, these poor priests, as they were called--vowed to poverty because Christ was poor--vowed to accept no benefice, lest they should misspend the property of the poor, and because, as apostles, they were bound to go where their Master called them,[466] spread out over the country as an army of missionaries, to preach the faith which they found in the Bible--to preach, not of relics and of indulgences, but of repentance and of the grace of God. keywords: account; act; answer; archbishop; authority; bishop; body; brother; canterbury; cap; catherine; catholic; cause; character; charles; church; circumstances; clement; clergy; commons; condition; conduct; consent; council; country; course; court; cromwell; crown; danger; day; days; death; desire; difficulty; divers; divorce; doubt; duke; duty; emperor; end; england; english; europe; evil; fact; faith; father; find; following; form; france; francis; french; froude; general; god; good; government; grace; hands; hath; henry; henry viii; heresy; highness; history; holiness; holy; hope; house; ibid; interests; item; judgment; justice; kind; king; king henry; lady; language; latimer; law; laws; lay; length; letter; life; little; london; lord; majesty; man; manner; marriage; mary; matter; means; men; mind; moment; money; nation; nature; new; nun; occasion; office; open; opinion; order; oxford; papal; papers; parliament; party; people; persons; place; point; pope; position; power; present; prince; princess; queen; question; realm; reformation; right; rolls; rome; royal; said; second; sentence; set; shall; sir; spiritual; state; statute; subjects; things; thomas; thought; time; truth; viii; vol; war; way; wife; wolsey; words; work; world; years cache: 15537.txt plain text: 15537.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 20300 author: Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick) title: Henry VIII. date: None words: 148211 flesch: 72 summary: Quod non fieri debuit_, was their just and common-sense point, _factum valet_. His failure was the cause of all that took place, for, as King Henry was deceived in every direction, he thought fit to take this other course. keywords: act; ambassador; anne; authority; bishop; boleyn; cal; cardinal; case; catherine; chapuys; charles; church; clement; commons; conscience; council; court; cranmer; cromwell; crown; daughter; days; death; divorce; duke; earl; edward; emperor; end; england; english; fact; father; favour; ferdinand; footnote; france; francis; french; general; god; good; government; hand; head; henry; henry iv; henry viii; house; ibid; imperial; influence; john; king; law; left; letters; london; lord; louis; man; marriage; mary; matter; maximilian; mind; new; papal; parliament; peace; people; policy; pope; power; prince; prince henry; queen; reign; rome; royal; scotland; second; sir; son; spain; spanish; state; suffolk; thomas; thought; throne; time; treaty; tudor; ven; war; way; wolsey; years cache: 20300.txt plain text: 20300.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 31864 author: Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir title: Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition date: None words: 16948 flesch: 75 summary: After Wolsey's fall, he sent this Fool as a present to King Henry. Charles Kemble played King Henry; Mr. Young, Wolsey; Miss Ellen Tree, Anne Boleyn; and Miss Fanny Kemble appeared for the first time as Queen Katharine. keywords: anne; boleyn; cardinal; church; court; divorce; england; god; great; henry; henry viii; katharine; king; king henry; lord; man; marriage; play; pope; queen; rome; shakespeare; theatre; time; wolsey; years cache: 31864.txt plain text: 31864.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 32155 author: Henry VIII, King of England title: The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes date: None words: 5820 flesch: 73 summary: Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, subsequently created Earl of Wiltshire, after passing many years at the court of Claude, queen of Francis I of France, returned to England about the end of the year 1525, at the age of eighteen. H. R. Letter Eighth Anne Boleyn to Wolsey _MY LORD_, in my most humblest wise that my heart can think, I desire you to pardon me that I am so bold to trouble you with my simple and rude writing, esteeming it to proceed from her that is much desirous to know that your grace does well, as I perceive by this bearer that you do, the which I pray God long to continue, as I am most bound to pray; for I do know the great pains and troubles that you have taken for me both day and night is never likely to be recompensed on my part, but alonely in loving you, next unto the king's grace, above all creatures living. keywords: anne; anne boleyn; boleyn; henry; letter; time; viii cache: 32155.txt plain text: 32155.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 32813 author: Hume, Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) title: The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History date: None words: 138270 flesch: 61 summary: As for a wife for King Henry there was the widowed Queen of Naples, Ferdinand's niece, who lived in Valencia, and he might have her with the blessing of the Spanish sovereigns.[9] The suggestion was a tempting one to Henry, for the Queen of Naples was well dowered, and the vigour of Isabel's refusal to listen to his marriage with her daughter, made it evident that that was out of the question. If in consequence the English spoke of the betrothal with young Henry, the ambassador was to show no desire for it; but was to listen keenly to all that was proposed, and if the terms were acceptable he might clinch the matter at once without further reference. keywords: alliance; ambassador; anne; bishop; brother; calendar henry; cardinal; case; catholic; chapuys; charles; church; council; court; cranmer; cromwell; daughter; day; days; death; divorce; duke; emperor; england; english; father; favour; ferdinand; france; francis; french; gardiner; good; hall; hand; henry; henry viii; house; husband; jane; katharine; king; king henry; ladies; lady; law; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; marriage; mary; mother; norfolk; order; party; people; policy; pope; princess; queen; queen katharine; rome; royal; seymour; sir; sister; son; spain; spanish; time; vol; war; way; whilst; wife; wolsey; woman; years; young cache: 32813.txt plain text: 32813.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 33113 author: Froude, James Anthony title: The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII date: None words: 149932 flesch: 70 summary: The Imperial Minister, it appeared, could still command the services of the Spanish garrisons in the Papal territories if severity was needed, and the members of the Sacred College had good reason to be uneasy; but King Henry might reasonably object to the trial of his cause in a country where the assessors of the supreme judge were liable to summary execution if they were insubordinate. King Henry loved a man, it was said. keywords: act; ambassador; anne; authority; bishop; boleyn; brief; calendar; campeggio; cardinal; catherine; cause; chapuys; charles; charles v.; church; clement; clergy; council; court; cromwell; crown; daughter; death; divorce; duke; emperor; england; english; execution; fisher; france; francis; french; god; good; henry; henry viii; judgment; king; lady; left; letter; lord; marriage; mary; new; norfolk; nuncio; opinion; papal; parliament; people; pope; present; princess; queen; queen catherine; question; realm; right; rome; sentence; sir; spanish; succession; thought; time; viii; vol; war; way; wolsey; world cache: 33113.txt plain text: 33113.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 36993 author: Jordan, Furneaux title: Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period date: None words: 24510 flesch: 65 summary: If King Henry, however, had had no wife at all, the Reformation would have come no more slowly than it did; if he had had, like King Solomon, seven hundred wives, it would have come no more quickly. Momentous changes in sixteenth century 1 Many characters given to noted persons 3 A great number given to Henry 3 The character given in our time 6 Attempt to give an impartial view 8 Need of additional light 14 NOTE II.--THE RELATION OF BODY AND PARENTAGE TO CHARACTER. keywords: bodily; character; circumstance; cruelty; elizabeth; father; good; great; henry; history; importance; king; life; little; love; man; mary; men; note; organisation; people; self; temperament; thought; time cache: 36993.txt plain text: 36993.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 46009 author: Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir title: The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII date: None words: 116317 flesch: 95 summary: I[~t]m same daye paied to the scole Maister of Powles for the bourde of george ffraunc[s] the king[s] scolar and other charg[s] [~s]. I[~t]m t[~h]e same daye paied to x men in Rewarde that Rowed the king[s] grace from Grenewiche to yorke place keywords: -l]i; accounts; anne; apperith; barge; beaulie; bille; bis; boleyn; bourde; bringing; bryan; co[~m]aunde^{t; co[~m]aundement; corons; d. i[~t]m; d. s[=m; daye; daye deli[^v]ed; e[^v]y daye; earl; edward; entries; entry; expenses; following; fro; furste daye; gardyner; george; grace; grace iiij; grace vj; greenwich; grenewiche; hall; hampton; hawk[s; henry; horses; hosen; hound[s; house; humfrey; iiij; iiij^{xx; ix d.; james; january; jeweller; john; july; june; keper; king iiij; king vj; king[s; lady daye; laste daye; london; lorde; m^{l; maister; making; man; mete; moche; monethe; money; nicholas; parke; part[s; payer; payment[s; pece; place; pouer; present; quarter; rewarde; rewarde iiij; rewarde vj; richard; robert; s'[^v]nt; s^{r; sir; space; stuf; ther; thomas; upo[^n; v d.; viii; viij d.; viij daye; vij; vj d.; vj daye; vol; w^{t; wag[s; wages; watermen; way; whiche; wi[~l][~l]m; william; woman; wyndeso^{r; xiiij d.; xiij; xij daye; xj d.; xvij; xx d.; xx daye; xxiiij daye; xxij; xxix daye; xxj; xxviij; xxvj daye; xxx; yere; yorke cache: 46009.txt plain text: 46009.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 50491 author: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) title: Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold date: None words: 187446 flesch: 73 summary: Sir knight, she continued, holding up the instrument, do you know what that is? It seems to me no very great problem, replied Sir Osborne, turning from some orders he was giving to Longpole; it is a cithern, is it not? He would fain have said, 'A thing that some fools play upon, and other fools listen to,' cried Lady Katrine: make no excuse, Sir Osborne; I saw it in your face. Sir knight, he continued, turning to Sir Osborne, what if in my armoury we could find a harness that would fit you? keywords: arms; buckingham; captain; cardinal; chamber; constance; court; darby; darnley; day; door; duke; earl; england; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; forth; france; francis; friend; god; gold; good; grace; great; grey; half; hall; hand; having; head; heart; henry; hope; horse; hour; jekin; katrine; king; know; lady; lady constance; leave; left; length; life; light; longpole; look; lord; love; man; master; maurice; means; mind; moment; morning; nay; open; osborne maurice; person; place; poor; rest; road; room; round; sir cesar; sir knight; sir osborne; sir payan; sort; sword; thought; time; tis; voice; way; wilbraham; wileton; wolsey; world; worship cache: 50491.txt plain text: 50491.txt