[151] "Le Cardinal Campège est encores à Douvres, et à ceste heure (je) viens d'entendre que, soubz couleur de faute de Navires, on ne le veult laisser passer, sans y prendre avis, de paeur qu'il n'emporte le thrésor du Card. d'Yorc."
_Lettre de l'Evesque de Bayonne, apud Le Grand Hist. du Divorce._
[152] The Term then began the ninth of October.
[155] This inventory is preserved among the Harleian MSS. No. 599.
[156] These words follow in the more recent MSS. "Yet there was laide upon every table, bokes, made in manner of inventories, reporting the number and contents of the same. And even so there were bokes made in manner of inventories of all things here after rehearsed, wherein he toke great paines to set all things in order against the king's comming."
[157] Baudkyn, cloth made partly of silk and partly of gold. Derived from _Baldacca_, an Oriental name for Babylon, being brought from thence.--"_Baldekinum_--pannus omnium ditissimus, cujus, utpote stamen ex filio _auri_, subtegmen ex _serico_ texitur, plumario opere intertextus." _Ducange Glossar. in voce._ It sometimes is used for a _canopy_ or _cloth of state_.
[158] The name of Cardinal Wolsey's fool is said to have been "Master Williams, otherwise called Patch." An inquiry into this very curious feature in the domestic manners of the great in ancient times could not fail to be very interesting. Mr. Douce has glanced at the subject in his Illustrations of Shakspeare; and gave his friends reason to hope for a more enlarged inquiry at a future period: it would afford me real pleasure to hear that his intentions were not finally abandoned.
[159] The Bishop of Bayonne, who paid him a visit of commiseration at this period, gives the following affecting picture of his distress, in a most interesting letter which will be found in the Appendix; he says: "J'ay esté voir le Cardinal en ses ennuis, où que j'y ay trouvé _le plus grand example de fortune qu' on ne sçauroit voir_, il m'a remonstré son cas en la plus mauvaise rhétorique que je vis jamais, _car cueur et parolle luy falloient entièrement_; il a bien pleuré et prié que le Roy et Madame voulsissent avoir pitié du luy--mais il m'a à la fin laissé sans me povoir dire austre chose qui vallist mieux que son visage; qui est bien dechue de la moitié de juste pris. Et vous promets, Monseigneur, que sa fortune est telle que ses ennemis, encores qu'ils soyent Anglois, ne se sçauroyent garder d'en avoir pitié, ce nonobstant ne le laisseront de le poursuivre jusques au bout." He represents him as willing to give up every thing, even the shirt from his back, and to live in a hermitage if the king would desist from his displeasure.