Bishop Gilbert Burnet's "History of the Reformation in the Church of Eng...

Meanwhile, we hear a review of Cardinal Wolsey’s ascent to the Cardinalship and Chancellor’s role, a man having the French pox (syphilis) and a live-in housekeeper, and a most skilled and intentional sycophant playing to Henry’s vanity (as did others). Wolsey was Bishop of Tournay, Lincoln and York. At one time or another, he held Bath and Wells, St. Alban’s Abbey and Winchester. One wonders about the interplay between ABC Warham and Bp. Fisher of Rochester, notably, the engagements in the few Parliaments in the first 20 years of Henry’s reign. Warham appears to have been more retiring. Henry VII raised both sons, Arthur and Henry VIII, in scholarly ways, something popularized by the Italian Medicis. Henry VIII was raised in the old divinity and enjoyed reading Aquinas’s Latin Summa. Bp. Gilbert notes that had Henry VIII died before the Catherine-events of 1529, he might have been “canonized” as a loyal son and saint in the Church of Rome. Meanwhile, Dr. Cranmer is the don of Cambridge throughout all this.