The King gave him many places, & he bes••owed on him his magnificent Palaces; White-Hall, that Good Hypocrite, mo••e convenient within, than comely without, Hampton Court, Windsor; the two first to be resident in, and ••he last ••o be buried in. (Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat)•• fi••ting his humour with pleasant habitations, as he suit∣ed his ambition with power and authority.
But the King broke with him at last about the divorce, being vexed with so many delays, defe••s, retardings, and prorogations between two Popes, Clement that was, and Wolsey that would be: yet rather eased him of his bu••dens, than deprived him of his preferments; continuing him Bishop of York and Durham, (when he turned him out of his Chancellourship of England) where being sent by that Lord, who would not endure him nearer the King, and could not get him further, he lived ra∣ther like a Prince than a Priest, providing as mag∣nificently for his Installation, as a King should for his Coronation: which unseasonable ambition was improved by his enemies malice, and the King's jealousie to his ruine: for in the midst of his so∣lemnities he is arrested by the Kings order, signi∣fied by the Earle of Northumberland, whose wrath was the Messenger of Death, and in his way to Lon∣don, being distracted between hope and fear, died at Leicester, where he was buried as obscurely as he was borne; and breathing out his soul in words to this purpose, viz. If I had served the God of Heaven as faithfully as I did my Master on earth, he had not for∣saken me in my old age, as the other hath done. He died, swelling in his body, as he had done in his mind, the pain being really in his hea••t, which