Footnote 313: Ven. Cal., ii., 1045.[(back)]
Footnote 314: L. and P., i., 5457.[(back)]
Footnote 315: Ibid., ii., 4354.[(back)]
Footnote 316: L. and P., ii., 1053, 1066.[(back)]
Footnote 317: Ibid., ii., 1931; cf. Shakespeare, Henry VIII., Act. I., Sc. i.:—
Thus the Cardinal
Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases
And for his own advantage. [(back)]
Footnote 318: L. and P., iii., 709, 2307 (where it is given as nine thousand "crowns of the sun"); Sp. Cal., ii., 273, 600. In 1527 Charles instructed his ambassador to offer Wolsey in addition to his pension of nine thousand ducats with arrears a further pension of six thousand ducats and a marquisate in Milan worth another twelve or fifteen thousand ducats a year (L. and P., iv., 3464).[(back)]
Footnote 319: L. and P., iv., 4824.[(back)]
Footnote 320: There is no doubt about his eagerness for the power which would have enabled him to carry out a reformation. As legate he demanded from the Pope authority to visit and reform the secular clergy as well as the monasteries; this was refused on the ground that it would have superseded the proper functions of the episcopate (L. and P., ii., 4399; iii., 149).[(back)]
Footnote 321: L. and P., ii., 629, 2637, 4068. Lark became prebendary of St. Stephen's (Ibid., iv., Introd., p. xlvi.).[(back)]