... Wolsey's tendency to abandon his aims of peace in order to appease Henry VIII's desire to prove himself through successes on the battlefield. Henry VIII's attempts to emulate his warrior hero, Henry V, must surely have caused problems, if indeed peace was Wolsey's ultimate gain. Scarisbrick explains the discrepancy and argues that Wolsey's foreign policy 'was a peace policy, and for about fifteen years he struggled to make it work'. Peter Gwyn however considered that peace was not Wolsey's ultimate aim, neither was the papacy, but that his loyalty to the king drove his foreign policies, 3'Wolsey believed passionately that it was his duty to work for the greater glory of Henry VIII'. The issue of whether Wolsey did indeed have any political principles or aspirations of peace is a complicated one to prove, one thing is certain though, if his policies were aimed to 'exalt his master's power and ...

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