1407, Nos.

4824, 5581, 6026, 6075.
Art.

27.] [Footnote 323: _Ibid._, iii., 1284; iv., p.

2558; ii., 2930.] Repellent as was Wolsey's character in many respects, he was yet the greatest, as he was the last, of the ecclesiastical statesmen who have governed England.

As a diplomatist, pure and simple, he has never been surpassed, and as an administrator he has had few equals.