Excerpt from Thomas Wolsey Legate and Reformer

The following monograph on Wolsey, as an Ecclesiastic, is a slight addition to the study of the causes which led up to the Reformation. N 0 other writer, so far as I am aware, has treated this side of the character of the great Cardinal of York. His work as a Churchman has been lost sight of in the secular triumphs he achieved and yet, Wolsey was, before everything, a Churchman, and one with a keen sense of the realities of Religion. Such evidence as I am able to lay before my readers goes to strengthen the conviction I arrived at several years ago, that had his plans for. Reform not been interfered with by the Divorce, the religious history of England would have been very different. For Wolsey saw the disease, and knew how to apply the remedy.

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