Fac simile of the Original Autograph M.S. of Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey.
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Engraved by J. Swaine.
WHO WROTE CAVENDISH’S LIFE OF WOLSEY?
FIRST PRINTED IN MDCCCXIV.
When a writer undertakes to give cuique suum in a question of literary property, if he would avoid the ridicule which they deservedly incur who raise a controversy only that they may have the honour of settling it, he must show that there are more claimants than one on the property he means to assign.
This then will be our first object.
To whom the Biographia attributes it.