The Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., vols. i.-iv.,
supplemented by the Spanish and Venetian Calendars, contain
almost all that is known of Wolsey's public career, though additional
light on the divorce has been thrown by Stephen Ehses' Romische
Dokumente (1893). Cavendish's brief Life, which is almost
contemporary, has been often edited. Fiddes's huge tome (1724) is fairly
exhaustive. Brewer, in his elaborate prefaces to the Letters and
Papers (reissued as his History of the Reign of Henry VIII.),
originated modern admiration for Wolsey; and his views are reflected in
Creighton's Wolsey in the "Twelve English Statesmen" series, and
in Dr Gairdner's careful articles in the Dict. Nat. Biog. and
Cambridge Modern History. A less enthusiastic view is adopted in
H. A. L. Fisher's volume (v.) in Longmans' Political History
(1906) and in A. F. Pollard's Henry VIII. (1902 and 1905). (A. F.
P.)
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