 | Thomas Storer - 1826 - 138 pages
...years he sat bishop of this see {^Winchester] till he was stark blind with age. All thought him to dye too soon, one only excepted, who conceived him to...live too long, viz. Thomas Wolsey, who gaped for his bishoprick and endeavoured to render him to the displeasure of king Henry the eighth; whose malice... | |
 | Stephen Hyde Cassan - 1827 - 618 pages
...demolished. Twentyseven years he sat Bishop of this See, 'till he was stark blind with age. A\\ thought him to die too soon: one only excepted, who conceived...gaped for his Bishopric, and endeavoured to render him [obnoxious] to the displeasure of King Henry VIII., whose malice this Bishop, though blind, discovered,... | |
 | Stephen Hyde Cassan - 1829 - 802 pages
...Twenty' • seven years he sat Bishop of this See, till he was " stark blind with age. All thought him to die too " soon : one only excepted, who conceived...for his " Bishopric, and endeavoured to render him [obnoxious] " to the displeasure of King Henry VIII. whose " malice this Bishop, though blind, discovered,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...demolished. Twenty-seven years he sat bishop of this see, till he was stark blind with age. All thought him to die too soon, one only excepted, who conceived...endeavoured to render him to the displeasure of king Henry the Eighth, whose malice this bishop, though blind discovered, and in some measure defeated. He died... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 608 pages
...demolished. Twenty-seven years he sat bishop of this see, till he was stark blind with age. All thought him to die too soon, one only excepted, who conceived...endeavoured to render him to the displeasure of king Henry the Eighth, whose malice this bishop, though blind discovered, and in some measure defeated. He died... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 606 pages
...of this see, till he was stark blind with age. All thought him to die too soon, one only except ed, who conceived him to live too long, viz. Thomas Wolsey,...endeavoured to render him to the displeasure of king Henry the Eighth, whose malice this bishop, though blind discovered, and in some measure defeated. He died... | |
 | Richard John King - 1876 - 552 pages
...dignities rapidly accumulated on him, but there was still one he greatly coveted. " All," says Puller, "thought Bishop Fox to die too soon, one only excepted,...bishop, though blind, discovered, and in some measure defeated1." Bishop Fox was blind for some time before his death. [AD 1529—1530.] THOMAS WOLSEY succeeded... | |
 | Richard John King - 1876 - 542 pages
...of Lincoln. Higher dignities rapidly accumulated on him, but there was still one he greatly coveted. "All," says Fuller, "thought Bishop Fox to die too...endeavoured to render him to the displeasure of King Henry VTII., whose malice this bishop, though blind, discovered, and in some measure defeated'." Bishop Fox... | |
 | Richard John King - 1876 - 544 pages
...Lincoln. Higher dignities rapidly accumulated on him, but there was still one he greatly coveted. " All," says Fuller, " thought Bishop Fox to die too soon, one only exccpted, who conceived him to live too long, viz., Thomas Wolsey, who gaped for his bishopric, and... | |
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... their spleen at once against crowns and mitres, valiantly fighting against the dust of the dead, have since barbarously demolished. Twenty-seven years he sat bishop of this see, till he was stark blind with age. All thought him to die too soon, one... 