Anglorum speculum, or, The worthies of England in church and state alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained : wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age : also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.

Cardinals.

Reginald Pole, born at Stoverton-Castle, 1500, was second Son to Sir Richard, Knight of the Garter, and nearly related to King Henry 7. His Mother Marga∣ret, Countess of Salisbury, was Neice to King Edw. 4.

and Daughter to George Duke of Clarence. He was bred in Corpus-Christi Colledge in Oxford, preferred afterwards Dean of Exeter. King Henry 8. allowing him a Pension, sent him beyond the Seas. He studied at Padua, conversed much with the Patricians of Ve∣nice, and in fine became a perfect Italian and could not be prevailed upon by the King or his Friends to return to England, whereupon his Pension was withdrawn. Living afterwards in a Venetian Monastery, he attain'd great Credit for his Eloquence, Learning and good Life. It was not long before he was made Deacon Cardinal, by the Title of St. Mary in Cosmedin, by Pope Paul 3. who sent him Ambassadour to the Emperour, and the French King, to incite them to War against K. Hen. 8. Afterwards he retired to Viterbo in Italy, where his House was the Sanctuary of Lutherans, and he himself became a Racking, but no through paced Brotestant: Insomuch, that being appointed one of the three Presi∣dents of the Council of Trent, he endeavoured to have Justification determined by Faith alone. During his living at Viterbo, he was taxed for begetting a Bastard, which Pasquil Published in Verses affixed to his Pillar. That Blade being made all of Tongue and Teeth, would not stick to tell where the Pope trod his Holy Sandals awry: Yet he had some Relation to the Beast in the Apocalyps, in that under the Name of Pasquil, there has been a successive Corporation of Satyrists. Af∣ter the death of Paul 3. Pole was at midnight in the Conclave chosen to succeed him, the refusal whereof under the notion of a deed of darkness, was by the Ita∣lians, lookt upon as a piece of dulness in our Cardinal. Next day expecting a re-Election, he saw Julius 3. his professed Enemy chosen in his place: Yet afterwards he became Alterius Orbis Papa, when made Arch-Bi∣shop of Canterbury by Queen Mary. He was a Per∣son free from Passion. His Youthful Books are full of the Flowers of Rhetorick; whilst those of his old Age

are dry and dull. He dyed few hours after O. Mary, November 17. 1558.