| Description Of Item | Notes on Thomas Cromwell and his life. He was born in Putney, Surrey, and his father was a blacksmith. ‘Such was his wit & activity, [that] he made his own fortune’. He was in the service of Wolsey before being recommended to Henry VIII, whom he advised on difficult matters. ‘By his persuasion [the] K[ing] suppressed all [the] abbies & monasteries in England, and commanded [the] bible to be printed and read in [the] English Tongue’.
Copied from R. B., Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland (1682).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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