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 CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY.

In the Press, and shortly will be published,

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO

His Grace the Duke of Devonshire,

THE

LIFE OF CARDINAL WOLSEY,

BY HIS GENTLEMAN USHER

GEORGE CAVENDISH.

NOW FIRST CORRECTLY PRINTED FROM THE

Original Autograph Manuscript.

WITH NOTES AND AN APPENDIX,

BY

S. W. SINGER.

" fate of this most interesting piece of biography has been singularly unfortunate. Until very lately, it has only been known in editions of the work, the earliest of which was printed nearly a hundred years after its composition; and then so garbled, abridged, and altered, by the caprice of a tasteless editor, in order to serve a temporary purpose, as almost to destroy the identity of the work.

"It is seldom that we can get so near a view of a life so remarkable and eventful as that of this great