This Theophilus Wodenote is son of Theophilus (senior). He matric. at
Exeter College, June 2, 1652.
=Thomas Wolsey= (147--1530).
[1273]Cardinal Woolsey:--Memorandum the Cardinal's hat on the scutcheon
at Christ Church: and quaere quot pedes from the College to the
Blew-boare; colour with soote the water-table, and insert in the
scutcheon the Cardinal's hat.
[1274]Thomas Wolsey[CV], Cardinal, was a butcher's son, of Ipswych, in
Suffolke; vide his Life, writt by....
He was a fellowe of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, where he was tutor
to a young gentleman of Limmington, near Ilchester, in com. Somerset,
in whose guift the presentation of that church is, worth the better
part of 200 _li._ per annum, which he gave to his tutor, Wolsey. He
had committed hereabout some debauchery (I thinke, drunke: no doubt
he was of a high rough spirit), and spake derogatorily of Sir Amias
Paulet (a Justice of Peace in the neighbourhood), who putt him into the
stockes[CII.], which, when he came to be Cardinall, he did not forget;
he layed a fine upon Sir Amias to build the gate of the Middle Temple;
the armes of Pawlet, with the quartrings, are in glasse there to this
day (1680). The Cardinall's armes were, as the storie sayes, on the
outside in stone, but time haz long since defaced that, only you may
still discerne the place; it was carved in a very mouldring stone.
[CII.] From my cosen Lyte, of Lytes Carey, about a mile from
Limmington, 30 yeares since. The tradition was very fresh: I have
forgott his pupill's name.
Remaines of him shew that he was a great master of the Latin tongue;
Dr. John Pell tells me, that [he[1275] finds in a preface to a Grammar
of ... Haynes, schoolmaster, of Christ-church, London,] that 'twas he
that made the Accedence before W. Lilly's Grammar in ... dayes.
His rise (vide the History) was his quick and prudent dispatch of a
message to Paris for Henry 8.
He had a most magnificent spirit. Concerning his grandure, vide Stowe's
Chronicle, &c.
He was a great builder, as appeares by White-hall, Hampton
Court.--Eshur[CIII.], in Surrey, a noble house, built of the best
burn't brick (perhaps) that ever I sawe; stately gate-house and hall.
This stately house (a fitt pallace for a prince[1276]) was bought
about 1666, by ... a vintner, of London, who is since broke, and the
house is sold, and pulled downe to the ground, about 1678. I have the
draught of the house among my Surrey papers.--Quaere:--he had a very
stately cellar for his wines, about Fish-street, called Cardinall
Wolsey's cellar.--He built the stately tower at Magdalen Colledge in
Oxford, and that stately palace at Winchester (where he was bishop),
called Wolsey-house; I remember it pretty well, standing 1647. Now, I
thinke, it is most pulled downe.--His noble foundation of his Colledge
of Christ-Church, in Oxford, where the stately hall was only perfected
by him. There were designed (as yet may appeare by the building)[1277]
most magnificent cloysters (the brave designe wherof Dr. John Fell
hath deteriorated with his new device) to an extraordinary spacious
quadrangle, to the entrance whereof was carrying up a tower (a
gate-house) of extraordinary rich and noble Gothique building. Vide J.
Oweni _Epigrammata_:
Sit domus imperfecta licet, similisque ruinae,
At patet in laudes area lata tuas.