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Correspondence between Wotton and Cromwell about Anne
Letters and Papers: December 1539, 1-5, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 2: August-December 1539 (1895), pp. 226-233. |
Who was Nicolas Wotton
Nicolas Wotton was lord mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, and member of parliament for the city from 1406 to 1429. He early became a vicar but, desiring a more worldly career, he entered the service of the bishop of London.
Having helped to draw up the Institution of a Christian Man, Wotton in 1539 went (as ambassador to Cleves) to arrange the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves and the union of Protestant princes which was to be the complement of this union. He crossed over to England with the royal bride, but, unlike Thomas Cromwell, he did not lose the royal favor when the king repudiated Anne, and in 1541, having already refused the bishopric of Hereford, he became the first post-Reformation dean of Canterbury and in 1544 dean of York. |
Who was Nicolas Wotton? |