Description - Lives of Eminent British Statesmen Volume 1 by John Forster
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...Cardinal Wolsey was chancellor of England, who of some was thought to have tint devised that court, because that he, after some intermission by negligence of time, augmented the authority of it The measure," he continues, "was marvellous necessary to repress the insolence of the noblemen and gentlemen of the north parts of England, who, being far from the king and the scat of Justice, made almost, as it were, an ordinary war among themselves, and made their force their law, binding themselves, with their tenants and servants, to do or revenge injury one against another, as they listed."-On the antiquity of the star-chamber see the introductory volume of Brodie's History of the British Empire, and the first volume of Hallam's Constitutional History of England. wholly overlooked in this attainder; for these were not the offences a parliament of Henry dared to punish, o? that would incur his resentment; and the charges are chiefly against the abuses of his legatine authority, and; his haughty deportment in the council. He was charged with having been the first to receive letters from the king's ministers abroad (a curious charge against a prime; minister!); with having named himself along with the king, as if he had been his fellow (the ego et rex meus charge, which only betrays its framer's ignorance of the Latin idiom); with having whispered in the king's ear, whilst he laboured under a particular disease; with consuming too much time with a fair tale in the council; with allowing no opposition, and overwhelming it with "his accustomable words," so that the members were better hold their peace than speak; with having greatly overshadowed, for a long season, the king's honour j and with many other offences equally indicative of his pr...
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