Note 13 — WHO WROTE CAVENDISH’S LIFE OF WOLSEY?

In his ‘Ecclesiastical Biography; or, Lives of eminent Men connected with the History of Religion in England,’ 6 vols. 8vo. a useful and valuable collection, Dr. Wordsworth very properly rejected the parenthesis, “at which time it was apparent that he had poisoned himself,” which had been introduced into the printed copies without the authority of the manuscripts. The editor of the Censura Literaria once intimated his intention to prepare an edition of this work. (C. L. iii. 372.) How could the press of Lee Priory, of whose powers we have had so many favourable specimens, have been more worthily engaged than in producing a correct edition of this valuable piece of antiquarian lore,—except in favouring the public with more of its able director’s own feeling and beautiful essays?