Cardinal Wolsey and the English Church: Peter Marshall asks how diligently Wolsey served his Church.(PROFILES IN POWER)

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Thomas Wolsey (c. 1471-1530) was without question the towering figure in English government during the first half of Henry VIII's reign. As Lord Chancellor (from 1515) he dominated the legal system and presided over the House of Lords. He overhauled royal taxation and headed a (moderately successful) campaign against enclosure in the countryside. He managed (indeed, often bypassed) the royal council, through his close personal and working relationship with the monarch. Always politically astute, he restrained the influence of the king's young ...

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