Note 67 — Chapter III
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It was reported that Wolsey, having been told by a fortune-teller that his ruin would be wrought through a woman, thought that woman to be Queen Katharine, and that in order to prevent her from being his undoing, he determined to bring her low. He put it into the head of the King’s confessor to suggest to him that he had committed sin in marrying his brother’s wife (Vatican Archives, Record Office transcripts, Bliss, portfolio 53).