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Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ers fortunes began when he became tutor to the son of the Duke of Norfolk and was by him introduced to Wolsey, whose Secretary he became. In 1525 he was elected Master of Trinity Hall, and was soon employed by Wolsey in the business of the Kings divorce. Upon this errand he paid two visits to Italy, giving great satisfaction to Henry and to Anne Boleyn, and he used his influence at Cambridge in the same direction. He tried to save Wolsey, and did successfully save Wolseys foundation of Christ Church; and he became Bishop of Winchester in 1531. His adroitness in steering through the quicksands of Henrys reign, which engulfed so many of his contemporaries, is the more remarkable from the fact that he was upon occasions, notably in 1531, the outspoken champion of the privileges of the Clergy, while continuing to act as Secretary to the King. He presided over commissions to try heretics, attended Anne Boleyn at her coronation, supported the Royal and denounced the Papal Supremacy (see his tract de Vera
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STEPHEN GARDINER From the portrait belonging to Trinity Hall, Cambridge Face p. 64 STEPHEN GARDINER 65 obedientia, 1535), yet retained the confidence of the Catholic party and even of successive Popes. Of Cranmer he always appears as the jealous enemy, yet almost more the enemy of the now exiled champion of the Papacy Reginald Pole, and it is quite possible to look upon his attitude as indicating a patriotic leaning to a high Anglo-Catholic position of national independence. But there is also evidence that Henry thoroughly mistrusted him and yet found him too useful to be abandoned. In the framing of the Six Articles, 1539, he had the chief share, and here he and the King could cordially agree. On the accession of Edward VI, he at once appears as the leader of the Opposition and the devout champion of Catholic doctrine and practice. Somerset was most anxious to conciliate him, and, though obliged to send him to a short imprisonment for resisting the first Ecclesiastical Visitation of 1547, he got h

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