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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Note 27 — POEMS. BY GEORGE CAVENDISH.

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In justice to the amiable author of this essay, who is extremely anxious to be accurate, I think it proper to apprise the reader that the note taken from the former edition of his work at p. 127 must be qualified by what is here stated. In a letter with which I have been favoured, he says, “I have looked again and again at the letter, and the word is certainly (if we may judge from the characters which the lady’s pen has formed) Wormhill: yet still I think it must have been intended for Wreshill, as I have met with nothing else to show that the lady had a house at Wormhill.” S. W. S.

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