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Wolsey held three bishoprics and one archbishopric, besides the abbey of St. Albans. Thus when Wolsey was presented, in 1514, to the See of Lincoln, Leo X. writes to his beloved son Thomas Wolsey how that in his great care for the interests of the Church, "Nos hodie Ecclesiæ Lincolniensi, te in episcopum et pastorem præficere intendimus." See the Acts in Rymer, Vol. VI. part I, pp. 55-57.
They could not endure the idea of being ruled by the English king. He was not only a stranger, but the hereditary enemy. The Capetian monarchy must at all costs be kept French. Viollet, op. cit., pp. 55-57; cf. Désprez, Les Préliminaires de la Giurre de Cent Am, p. 32. Isabella did what she could on her son's behalf.
Men anxiously looked for the reappearance of Antichrist and Antichrist appeared! * A list of well-authenticated cases is given by Nilski, "Semeinaya zhizn v russkom Raskole," St. Petersburg, 1869; part I., pp. 55-57. The number of these self-immolators certainly amounted to many thousands. The man in whom the people recognised the incarnate spirit of evil was no other than Peter the Great.
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