| Description Of Item | First verses:
‘Brave Priest, who ever was thy sire by kind,
woolsey of Ipswich, nere begat thy mind’
Notes that Thomas Wolsey was made Cardinal at St Cecily and died at Leicester in 1530. He founded Christ-Church college in Oxford.
Followed by verses from Richard Corbet, Bishop of Norwich:
‘& tho[ugh] from his own store, woolsey might have
a Palace, or a Colledge for his grave
yet here he lies, Interd, as if [that] all
of him to be remembred were his fall
nothing but Earth to Earth, nor Pompous weight
upon him but a Pebble, or a quaite
if thou art thus neglected what shall we
hope after Death, [that] are but shreds of thee’
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. |