The bull appointing Wolsey and Campeggio to be Legates _a latere_ jointly, is dated July 27th, 1518, that appointing Wolsey to be sole Legate _a latere_, 10th June, 1519;[114] and from the first two passages which I have cited above (pp. xl, xli) we ascertain the fact, that Wolsey continued to be the patron of Skelton for at least some time after he had been invested with the dignity of papal legate. If the third passage cited above (p. xli), “Go, lytell quayre, apace,” &c. really belong to the poem _How the douty Duke of Albany_, &c., to which it is appended in Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568, our author must have been soliciting Wolsey for preferment as late as November 1523: but his most direct satire on the Cardinal, _Why come ye nat to Courte_, was evidently composed anterior to that period; and his _Speke, Parrot_ (which would require the scholia of a Tzetzes to render it intelligible) contains seeming allusions to events of a still earlier date. The probability (or rather certainty) is, that the L’Envoy, “Go, lytell quayre,” &c. has no connexion with the poem on the Duke of Albany: in Marshe’s volume the various pieces are thrown together without any attempt at arrangement; and it ought to be particularly noticed that between the poem against Albany and the L’Envoy in question, _another L’Envoy is interposed_.[115] Wolsey might have forgiven the allusions made to him in _Colyn Cloute_; but it would be absurd to imagine that, in 1523, he continued to patronise the man who had written _Why come ye nat to Courte_. The following anecdote is subjoined from Hall: “And in this season [15 Henry viii.], the Cardinall by his power legantine dissolued the Conuocacion at Paules, called by the Archebishop of Cantorbury [Warham], and called hym and all the clergie to his conuocacion to Westminster, which was neuer seen before in Englande, wherof master Skelron, a mery Poet, wrote, Gentle Paule, laie doune thy sweard,[116] For Peter of Westminster hath shauen thy beard.”[117] From the vengeance of the Cardinal,[118] who had sent out officers to apprehend him, Skelton took sanctuary at Westminster, where he was kindly received and protected by the abbot Islip,[119] with whom he had been long acquainted. In this asylum he appears to have remained till his death, which happened June 21st, 1529. What he is reported to have declared on his death-bed concerning the woman whom he had secretly married, and by whom he left several children, has been already mentioned:[120] he is said also to have uttered at the same time a prophecy concerning the downfal of Wolsey.[121] He was buried in the chancel of the neighbouring church of St. Margaret’s; and, soon after, this inscription was placed over his grave, _Joannes Skeltonus, vates Pierius, hic situs est_.[122]