Catalogue description DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE OF CARDINAL WOLSEY

A copy made in the first half of the seventeenth century of Cardinal Wolsey's diplomatic correspondence with ambassadors and envoys to the Emperor and the Papacy, 1517-25. The documents, which are not in chronological order, are as follows:

Wolsey to John Clerk, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Richard Pace, Dean of St. Paul's, and Thomas Hannibal, Master of the Rolls, 25 March [1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.185 (f.1).

Henry VIII to Cardinal Hadrian de Corneto, Bishop of Bath and Wells, [4 Feb. 1517]. Fiddes, Life of cardinal Wolsey, 1726, app.4 book II c.2; C.S.P.For. & Dom.II (2), no.2871 where it is conjecturally addressed to the Bishop of Worcester (f.13v).

Wolsey to Richard Sampson, Dean of Windsor and the Chapel Royal, and Sir Richard Jerningham, 6 Nov. [1523]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.68 book II c.27; C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.MSS/3513 (f.19).

Wolsey to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Pace, and Hannibal, [22 Dec. 1523]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.51 book II c.25; C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3659 (f.27).

Wolsey to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, [16 Jan. 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1017 (f.42).

Wolsey to Sampson, [13 Feb. 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1083 (f.61).

Wolsey to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and Hannibal, [28 May 1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.375 (f.82v).

Jerningham and Sampson to Wolsey, [3 July 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3150 (f.92).

Pace to Henry VIII, [26 Jan. 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1036 (f.100).

Henry VIII to Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London, and Sir Richard Wingfield, [26 March 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1212 (f.102).

Henry VIII to Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London, and Sir Richard Wingfield, 8 Sept. [1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1628 (f.131)

Wolsey to Sampson and Jerningham, 30 August [1523]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.69 book II c.27; C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3281 (f.147v).

Wolsey to Sampson and Jerningham, 15 [recte 14] Jan. [1524]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.70 book II c.27; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.26 (f.154v).

Wolsey to Sampson and Sir Thomas Boleyn, [10 Jan. 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2764 (f.163v).

Instructions to Sampson and Boleyn, [25 Sept. 1522]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2567 (5) (f.175v).

Henry VIII to William Knight, LL.D., [June 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3123 (f.178).

Wolsey to Pace, 31 August 1524. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.605 (f.193).

Wolsey to Pace, 7 August [1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.567 (f.208v).

Wolsey to Pace, 28 May [1524]. C.P.S.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.374 (f.216v).

Wolsey to Pace, 5 March 1524. Fiddes, op.cit., app.73 book II c.29; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1152 (f.226v).

Wolsey to Pace and Sir John Russell, [August 1524]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.72 book II c.29; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.590 (f.230v).

Wolsey to Pace, [Dec. 1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.911 (f.234).

Wolsey to Pace, 28 Feb. [1524]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.53 book II c.25; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.126 (f.239v).

Wolsey to Pace, 28 June 1524. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.456 (f.241v).

Instructions to Pace for treating with Venice, [Sept. 1522]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2497 (f.251).

Instructions to Pace for his mission to the Swiss, [19 March 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2901 (quoting this manuscript only) (f.260v).

Wolsey to Pace, [March 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2863.

Sancroft has written against this item (f.273) 'This Last Letter was transcrib'd from Sir Wm Boreman's copies of these negotiations & was ye only one wanting here'. Sir William Boreman, who was knighted in 1661, was chief clerk of the kitchen in 1660, clerk comptroller in 1661, and junior clerk of the Green Cloth in 1680 (f.271v).

On the inside cover 'Bibliotheca MS. Lambethana No.245' in the hand of Andrew Coltee Ducarel. A list of contents in the hand of Samuel Wayland Kershaw is at ff.iv-ii.

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