Identifier: shorthistoryofen00lars (find matches)
Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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shop of Canterbury, for he wasthe popes official representative or legate in the kingdom.His position was emphasized by a court and a retinue of ser-vants which were almost royal in magnificence.2 With a love of splendor Wolsey united an extraordinarycapacity for work and unusual industry in attending to adminis-trative details. The king himself was a totally different person.As time amply proved, Henry VIII possessed a wonderfulinsight into matters of state and unusual abilities both as ademagogue and a statesman. But in the earlier eighteen yearsof his reign, he did not apply himself to the task of governing.For the first four years he had no minister ; but when he dis-covered Wolseys genius (in 1513) he surrenderedauthority to him and devoted himself to the artsof a gentleman of leisure. A fine, handsome, athletic prince,skilled in archery, successful in the chase, and a leader in all - Tuell and Hatch, No. 30. 2 Cheyney, No. 108; Innes, I, 272-275. 224 EVE OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLT
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Thomas, Cardinal WolseyAfter a portrait by Holbein. kinds of manly sport, Henry VIII developed a remarkablepopularity which he never entirely lost.1 i Cheyney, Nos. igo (Erasmus), 195; Kendall, No. 44; Robinson, No. 114; Tuelland Hatch, No. 2g (Jusserand). WAR WITH SCOTLAND AND BATTLE OF FLODDEN 225 201. The Continental Situation: the Balance of Power. Wolseys great strength lay in his diplomacy. It was he whoevolved the idea of balance of power. This meant that thekings of Europe ought not to allow a single state or ruler tobecome so powerful as to dominate European politics, but shouldstrive, by forming alliances or otherwise, to build up severalpowers of approximately equal strength. In the earlier decadesof the sixteenth century, three great nations laid claim to leader-ship in European affairs: France, Spain, and Germany. Thestrength of the German Empire was largely imaginary ; buta decade after Henrys accession it took on new importancethrough its union with Spain in the person

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