By Cromwell, Thomas; Cromwell, Thomas; Cromwell, Thomas (Politiker); Cromwell, Thomas; Hutchinson, Robert
"Robert Hutchinson investigates the increase and fall of Henry VIII's so much infamous minister. The son of a brewer, Cromwell rose from obscurity to develop into 'Earl of Essex, Vice-Regent and excessive Chamberlain of britain, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer'. He manoeuvred his approach to the head by means of intrigue, bribery and sheer strength of character in a court docket ruled through the malevolent King Henry." "Cromwell Read more...
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THOMAS CROMWELL41 Friendship could only mean so much: business, after all, was business. Whilst still active in his own right as a lawyer and money-lender, Cromwell’s work for the Cardinal as a legal adviser and councillor revealed to him a new, undreamt-of world of riches. Wolsey’s opulent lifestyle, wealth and love of pomp must have astonished Cromwell. The Cardinal’s household numbered nearly 500 members, including ‘the tallest and [most] comely yeomen that he could get in all this realm’. George Cavendish, Wolsey’s gentleman usher, relates that the Cardinal had three dining tables daily in his hall, presided over by three principal officers: a steward (always a dean or a priest) a treasurer (a knight) and a comptroller, who all carried white staves as badges of office.
As the councillors entered the maze of buildings beside the River Thames, a sudden gust of wind blew off Cromwell’s hat. It was the polite but bizarre custom during this period for all gentlemen to remove their hats when another had lost his. That day, the councillors rudely ignored the Minister’s plight and kept their caps firmly on their heads. ’ Apparently blind, they had now become deaf as well and his quip went unacknowledged. Cromwell must have recognised their silence as an omen of what was to come.
I am in disdain with most men for my master’s sake and surely without just cause. An ill name once gotten will not be lightly put away. ’ At this last outrageous canard, he suddenly seemed to make up his mind on his next course of action. His earnest plea for heavenly help was at once subsumed by a desire to fight destiny and personally confront his many enemies. Self-pity was hastily banished and replaced by steely resolve: ‘This much I say to you. I intend, God willing, this afternoon, when my lord has dined, to ride to London and so to the court, where I will either make or mar, or I come again.
