"fo much as he found fit, and called it his. "Thus did the tomb of the Cardinal partake "the fame fortune with his College, as being "affumed by the King. The news of the Car"dinal's death being brought to the King, it did "fo much afflict him, that he wished it had coft "him twenty thousand pounds, upon condition "that he had lived. Howbeit, he omitted not "to inquire of about fifteen hundred pounds "which the Cardinal had lately got, without "that the King could imagine how."

It is faid in the Preface to a Grammar written by Mr. Haynes, the schoolmaster of ChristChurch, that Cardinal Wolfey made the Accidence before Lily's Grammar.

"The Cardinal was a fhort lufty man," fays Aubrey, "not unlike Martin Luther, as appears

by the paintings that remain of him." A great writer obferves, that few ever fell from fo high a fituation with less crimes objected to him than Cardinal Wolfey: yet it must be remembered, that he gave a precedent to his rapacious Sovereign of feizing on the wealth of the Monafteries, which however the Cardinal might well apply, (fuppofing that injuftice can ever be fancti'fied by its confequences,) by bestowing it on the erection of feminaries of learning, yet that wealth, in the hands of Henry, became the means of pro

fufion and oppreffion; and corrupted and subjugated that country, which it ought to have improved and protected.

CARDINAL CAMPEJUS.

WHEN Campejus was in England on the bufinefs of King Henry's divorce, he spent his time in hunting and gaming, and brought over with him a natural fon, whom the King knighted. The Duke of Suffolk often afked his Majefty, how he could debase himself so, as to fubmit his cause to such a vile, vicious, stranger priest?

Menage fays, that there was a man of Campejus's acquaintance who took fuch care of his beard, that it coft him three crowns a month. The Cardinal told him one day, "That, by-andby, his beard would coft more than his head was worth."

Many letters written by Campejus, peculiarly interefting on the history of his own time, are to be met with in " Epiftolarum Mifcellanearum

"Libri X.

LORD CROMWELL.

WHEN the articles of impeachment against Cardinal Wolfey were fent down to the Lower House, Thomas Cromwell, who had been a fervant of the Cardinal, defended his old and difgraced Master with fuch ability, that the charges of high treafon brought against him were thrown out. "Upon this honeft begin"ning," fays Lord Herbert, "Cromwell ob"tained his first reputation."

"Mr. Cromwell, (now highly in the King's "favour,)" fays Mr. More, in his very entertaining Life of his Grandfather, "came of a

meffage from the King to Sir Thomas; "wherein when they had thoroughly talked to"gether, before his going away, Sir Thomas "faid to him, Mr. Cromwell, you are entered "into the fervice of a moft noble, wife, and "liberal Prince. If you will follow my poor "advice, you fhall in your counsell-giving to his t Majestie ever tell him what he ought to doe, "but never what he is able to doe; fo fhall you "fhewe yourself a true and faithful fervant, and cc a right worthie counsellour: for if a Lion "knew his own ftrength, hard were it for anie

man to rule him. But," adds Mr. More,

"Cromwell

"Cromwell never learned this leffon; for he "ever gave that counfell to his Prince which "he thought would best please him, and not "what was lawful."

Cromwell's reafons for ferving his cruel and rapacious Sovereign in diffolving the Monafteries and Abbeys in England, are fuch as might have fuggefted themselves to every unprincipled minion of authority who wished to glofs over the injustice of his proceedings, and are thus ftated by Lord Herbert: "Firft, faid he, in regard to the Clergy,

as they have taken an oath to the Pope, they

are only the King's half fubjects. Secondly, "With respect to expelling the Monks, he said, "that was nothing more than to reftore them "to their first institution of being lay and la"bouring perfons. And thirdly, he added, That "the particular aufterities practised by them as "members of religious houfes, they might practife, if they pleased, in any other fituation."

"Henry," adds Lord Herbert, " finding "Cromwell no longer neceffary, gave way to "the frivolous accufations of his enemies, and "brought him to the block, at which he suffered "unlamented; though (according to the fame "noble historian) he had been noted, in the ex❝ercife of his places of judicature, to have used

"much

"much moderation; and in his greatest pomp, "to have taken notice of, and to have been "thankful to, mean perfons of his old acquaint❝ance."

SIR THOMAS MORE.

IN how different a manner do Princes appre ciate the merits of their fervants!-When that honour to human nature, Sir Thomas More, was beheaded by his cruel and ungrateful Sovereign, Charles the Fifth faid to Sir Thomas Ellyot, "If I had been mafter of fuch a fervant, of "whofe doings ourfelves have had these many

years no fmall experience, I would rather have "loft the best citie of my dominions than have "loft fuch a worthie Counsellor."

Sir Thomas, who well knew the difpofition of Henry, faid one day to his fon Mr. Roper, who had complimented him upon feeing the King walk with his arm about his neck, "I "thanke our Lord, I find his Grace a very

good lorde indeed, and I do believe he doth

as fingularly favour me as any fubject within "this realme. Howbeit, fon Roper, I may "tell thee, I have no caufe to be proud thereof; "for if my head would winne him a caftle in "France, yt fhould not fayle to go."

Mr.