Cardinals.
CHRISTOPHER BAMBRIDGE born near * 1.1 Apleby in this County, was bred Doctor of Law in Queens-colledge in Oxford. He was afterwards Dean of York, Bishop of Durham, and at last Arch-bishop of York. Being imployed an Embasadour to Rome; he was an active instrument to procure our King Henry the eight, to take part with the Pope against Lewis King of France, for which good service he was created Cardinal of Saint Praxis. A title some say he long desired, let me adde, and little injoyed. For fal∣ling out with his Steward Rivaldus de Modena an Italian, and fustigating him for his faults, the angry Italian * 1.2 Poysoned him.
Herein something may be pleaded for this Cardinal out of the Old, sure I am more must be pleaded against him out of the New Testament, if the places be Parallell'd.
| Proverbs 29. 19. | 1 Timothy 3. 3. |
| A servant will not be corrected by words, &c. | A Bishop must be no striker, &c. |
But grant him greatly faulty, it were uncharitable in us, to beat his Memory with more stripes, who did then suffer so much for his own Indiscretion; His death happen∣ed July 14. 1511▪ and was buried at Rome (not in the Church of Saint Praxis, which en∣titled him, but) in the Hospitall of the English.