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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d best be utilized in providmg the pay of an EnglishAmbassador at the Vatican. It is a strange instance ofthe irony of history that one of the men appointed asbishop by Henry VIII. was that Cardinal Medici who,as Pope Clement VII., did more than any other man tobring about the separation between Rome and England.To some extent the county furnished another actorin that important change. About A.D 1400, a memberof a Cornish family named Nanfan became possessedof Birts Morton. One of them. Sir Richard Nanfan,a fine old soldier, was appointed to the important post ofLieutenant of Calais. He required a sharp lad to do theclerical work of the post, and engaged a boy, who turnedout to be of exceptional ability. Living in Nanfansfamily, he came at times with his master to Birts Morton.He was so useful and so completely won the old mansconfidence that he named him one of his executors inhis will, which the old knight seems to have considereda sufficient reward for his services. But the boy was
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Worcestershire 253 fated to fill a higher position than executor to the willof a Worcestershire squire. He had lost none of hisopportunities at Calais, and had come under the noticeof the Court. He went on from step to step until, at hisdeath, he had played the greatest part played by anyEnglishman in the great questions of the sixteenthcentury. He was Englands great Foreign Minister—theCardinal Archbishop of York, Thomas Wolsey. If a Bishop of Worcester helped to bring about theseparation between England and Rome, two other of herbishops were destined to shew the world of what stuffEnglish Protestants were made, and to confer onWorcester an exceptional distinction. Worcester is theonly English see that, in the first half of the sixteenthcentury, numbered among her bishops one Pope and twomartyrs. Clement VH., the Worcester Pope, lived to seetwo of his successors in the see. Bishops of Worcester,burnt at the stake—the one, Nicholas Latimer, at Oxford;the other, John Hooper, at Glo

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