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Henry VIII.

CHAPTER V
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It is true that Pace was in the charge of the Bishop of Bangor, but he was not transferred thither until 1528 (Ellis, _Orig.

Letters_, 3rd ser., ii., 151); he was released immediately upon Wolsey's fall.
Erasmus, thereupon, congratulating him on the fact, remarked that he was consoled by Pace's experience for his own persecution and that God rescued the innocent and cast down the proud (_ibid._, iv., 6283).

The _D.N.B._ (xliii., 24), has been misled by Brewer.

Wolsey had long had a grudge against Pace, and in 1514 was anxious to make "a fearful example" of him (_L.

and P._, i., 5465); and his treatment of Pace was one of the charges brought against him in 1529 (_ibid._, iv., p.


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