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WOLSEV.
Here lie took up his abode, and was making arrangements
for his enthronization in the minster, when he
was arrested by the Earl of Northumberland on a
charge of high treason, and left Cawood on that melancholy
journey which was ended by the death of the
great cardinal at Leicester Abbey on the 29th Nov.,
1530. He was succeeded at York by Edward Lee, the
king's almoner, a canon of York and Chancellor of
Salisbury, who was consecrated on the loth Dec, 1531.
He had been sent the year before to Bologna along
with the Earl of Wiltshire and Dr. Stokesley
(bisho])
elect of London), to lay before the pope and the
emperor the decision of the Universities in favour of
the King's new marriage.
Wolsey's condemnation had some far-reaching
consequences. With that strange adherence to
technicalities which so often besets the legal mind, it
was held by the judges that the nalion was involved
in the penalties of Pramunire by having accepted
Wolsey's authority. A general pardon was issued,
but, either by design or oversight, it did not include
the clergy. Early in 1531 they were summoned to
appear in convocation. They were pardoned, it is
true, but at a prodigious cost. The Province of
Canterbury was required to pay 00,000, and that
of York 8,840. They were required also to
acknowledge the king to be " sole protector and
supreme head of the Church." Great reluctance was
exhibited to an acquiescence in the latter demand,
and after a prolonged debate in the southern convocation,
it was only at last accepted on the understanding
that the words quantum per Cliristi legem
should