Redland, June 5.
[Carwithen, in his _History of the Church of England_, vol. i. p.
40., speaking of Wolsey's attempt to gain the popedom, says, "His
aim was the chair of St. Peter, and to the attainment of his
wishes he rendered subservient both the alliances and the enmities
of his own country. At home, even the papacy could confer on him
no accession of power: he was indeed _papa alterius orbis_."]
_Mrs. Elstob._--Mrs. Elstob, the Anglo-Saxon scholar, is stated by a
recent reviewer to have passed the period of her seclusion in a village
in Wiltshire, until taken notice of by a neighbouring clergyman. What
village was this, and who was the clergyman? for other authorities place
her at Evesham in Worcestershire.