... into something much more splendid. Thomas Wolsey, born in Ipswich in 1900, was the son of a grazier and innkeeper. Wolsey was educated at Magdalen College on Oxford, and after becoming a priest he was appointed chaplain to Henry V111. Wolsey won rapid advancement, and was appointed Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor as well as Cardinal. Wolsey became Minister and the most powerful subject in the Kingdom. During the first twenty years of his reign, Henry V111 left the shaping of politics in the hands of Wolsey, who sought to give England importance by acting as an arbiter between France and Spain. Wolsey began to acquire great power and wealth. He received his first major secular appointment in 1511, when he was made a privy councillor. In 1513 he assisted in planning and carrying out the highly successful English invasion of France; in the following year he secured a peace with France. By the time he ...

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