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TEN TUDOR STATESMEN HENRY VII From a Painting by an unknown Flemish artist - photo 1
TEN TUDOR STATESMEN
HENRY VII.
From a Painting by an unknown Flemish artist, in the National Portrait Gallery

TEN TUDOR
STATESMEN
By ARTHUR D. INNES
AUTHOR OF
ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS
LONDON
EVELEIGH NASH
1906

Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited
Tavistock Street, London

PREFATORY
The series of studies contained in this volume is in no way a history of the Tudor period. My object in preparing it has been first to form in my own mind and secondly to present to my readers a clear and consistent conception of the character of sundry persons, who in their own day either exercised an effective influence on the course of politics, or embodied political ideas which have influenced succeeding generations. The events narrated are considered not in the light of their intrinsic importance, but as they bear on the particular character under investigation.
To arrive at a fair estimate of any mans character, the primary necessity is to endeavour to realise his point of view, to appreciate his preconceptions. If we require of him that his preconceptions shall coincide with our own, we may reconstruct an interesting dramatic figure, but we shall not discover the man as he really was. And if we do succeed in placing ourselves at his point of view, we shall almost inevitably find that the man who ultimately emerges is different from, and probably somewhat better than, the man as we had previously conceived him.
Concerning these ten figures, two curious points may be noted. Eight of them may be described as ministers: not one of the eight was actually of noble birth, two were not even of gentle birth. That fact emphasises the change in the political centre of gravity which accompanied the establishment of the Tudor Dynasty. Secondly, of those eight, four perished on the scaffold and one at the stake: a sixth was in custody under accusation of treason when death released him. That illustrates not less emphatically the distance at which we stand from the Tudors to-day.
A. D. I.

CONTENTS
I
HENRY VII
PAGE
I.INTRODUCTORY
II.HENRYS EARLY YEARS, ACCESSION, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DYNASTY
III.THE TUDOR ABSOLUTION AND THE EXCHEQUER
IV.COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY
V.JUDICATURE
VI.FOREIGN POLICY
VII.CHARACTER
II
CARDINAL WOLSEY
I.APPRECIATIONS
II.CARDINALIS PACIFICATOR
III.WOLSEY AND THE FRENCH WAR
IV.DOMESTIC POLICY
V.THE DIVORCE
VI.WOLSEY AND THE REFORMATION
VII.WOLSEYS FALL AND CHARACTER
III
SIR THOMAS MORE
I.INTRODUCTORY
II.UNDER HENRY VII
III.THE EARLY YEARS OF HENRY VIII
IV.THE UTOPIA
V.MORE IN PUBLIC LIFE
VI.INDIGNATIO PRINCIPIS
VII.CHARACTER AND DEATH
IV
THOMAS CROMWELL
I.THOMAS CROMWELL
II.EARLIER CAREER AND RISE TO POWER
III.PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN
IV.CONTRA ECCLESIAM
V.THE FABRIC OF DESPOTISM
VI.CROMWELL AND PROTESTANTISM
VII.CROMWELLS FALL
V
HENRY VIII
I.APPRECIATIONS
II.THE CARDINAL RULES
III.WAR
IV.THE DIVORCE
V.THE NEW POLICY
VI.DIVERGENCES BETWEEN HENRY AND CROMWELL
VII.HENRYS CLOSING YEARS
VIII.HENRYS MARRIAGES
IX.HENRYS CHARACTER
VI
PROTECTOR SOMERSET
I.MISCONCEPTIONS
II.THE PROTECTOR AND HIS PROBLEMS
III.SOMERSET AND SCOTLAND
IV.SOMERSETS RELIGIOUS POLICY
V.SOMERSET AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
VI.THE LORD ADMIRAL
VII.THE EX-PROTECTOR
VII
ARCHBISHOP CRANMER
I.INTRODUCTORY
II.CRANMER AT CAMBRIDGE
III.RISE TO THE ARCHBISHOPRIC
IV.HENRYS PRIMATE
V.CRANMER AND SOMERSET
VI.THE FLOWING TIDE OF PROTESTANTISM
VII.DE PROFUNDIS
VIII
WILLIAM CECIL (LORD BURGHLEY)
I.THE MINISTERS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
II.CECIL UNDER EDWARD VI. AND MARY
III.FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT ELIZABETHS ACCESSION
IV.DOMESTIC AND SCOTTISH POLICY
V.CECIL AND PROTESTANTISM
VI.ELIZABETHS SECOND PERIOD
VII.THE WAR WITH SPAIN
VIII.AN APPRECIATION
IX
SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM
I.WALSINGHAMS CHARACTER
II.WALSINGHAMS RISE
III.AMBASSADOR AT PARIS
IV.ENTANGLEMENTS
V.DETECTIVE METHODS
VI.THE END
X
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
I.CHARACTER
II.RALEIGHS RISE
III.VIRGINIA
IV.AFTER THE ARMADA
V.FAVOUR AND FALL
VI.CAPTIVE AND VICTIM

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Henry VII.
From a Painting by an unknown Flemish artist, in the National Portrait Gallery
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Cardinal Wolsey
From a Painting by Holbein in the collection at Christ Church, Oxford
Sir Thomas More
From a Painting by Holbein in the National Portrait Gallery
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
By Holbein , from an Engraving by Houbraken in the British Museum
Henry VIII.
From a Portrait by Jost van Cleef in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace
Protector Somerset
From a Painting by Holbein
Thomas Cranmer
From a Painting by G. Fliccius in the National Portrait Gallery
William Cecil (Lord Burghley)
From a Portrait by Marc Gheeraedts (?) in the National Portrait Gallery
Sir Francis Walsingham
From an engraving by G. Vertue after the picture by Holbein, in the British Museum
Sir Walter Raleigh
From the Painting by Federigo Zuccaro in the National Portrait Gallery
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