[114] Wolsey had previously been named a Cardinal in 1515.—Fiddes (_Life of Wolsey_, p. 99. ed. 1726) says that he became Legate _a latere_ in 1516: but see _State Papers_ (1830), i. 9 (note). Lingard’s _Hist. of Engl._ vi. 57. ed. 8vo, &c.—Hoping to ascertain the exact date of the _Replycacion_, &c. (which contains the first of the passages now under consideration), I have consulted various books for some mention of the “young hereticks” against whom that piece was written; but without success. [115] We cannot settle this point by a comparison of old editions, the poem against Albany and the two L’Envoys which follow it being extant only in the ed. of Marshe.—It may be doubted, too, if the L’Envoy which I have cited at p. xli, “_Perge, liber_,” &c. belongs to the _Garlande of Laurell_, to which it is affixed in Marshe’s edition as a _second_ L’Envoy: in Faukes’s edition of that poem, which I conceive to be the first that was printed, it is not found: the Cott. MS. of the _Garlande_ is unfortunately imperfect at the end. [116] i. e. sword. [117] _Chron._ (_Hen._ viii.) fol. cx. ed. 1548. [118] “Ob literas quasdam in Cardinalem Vuolsium inuectiuas, ad Vuestmonasteriense tandem asylum confugere, pro uita seruanda, coactus fuit: ubi nihilominus sub abbate Islepo fauorem inuenit.” Bale, _Script. Illust. Brit._ p. 651. ed. 1559.—“Vbi licet Abbatis Islepi fauore protegeretur, tamen vitam ibi, quantumuis antea iucunde actam, tristi exitu conclusit.” Pits, _De Illust. Angl. Script._ p. 701. ed. 1619.—“But Cardinal Wolsey (_impar congressus_, betwixt a poor Poet and so potent a Prelate) being inveighed against by his pen, and charged with too much truth, so persecuted him, that he was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster, where Abbot Islip used him with much respect,” &c. Fuller’s _Worthies_ (_Norfolk_), p. 257. ed. 1662.—“He [Skelton] was so closely pursued by his [Wolsey’s] officers, that he was forced to take sanctuary at Westminster, where he was kindly entertained by John Islipp the abbat, and continued there to the time of his death.” Wood’s _Ath. Oxon._ i. 51. ed. Bliss, who adds in a note; “The original MS. register of this sanctuary, which must have been a great curiosity, was in Sir Henry Spelman’s library, and was purchased at the sale of that collection by Wanley for Lord Weymouth. MS. note in Wanley’s copy of Nicholson’s _Historical Library_ in the Bodleian.”