Wolsey had been stripped of his government…

Wolsey had been stripped of his government office and property in 1529, including his magnificently expanded residence of Hampton Court, which Henry has taken to replace the Palace of Westminster as his own main London residence.

However, Wolsey had been permitted to remain Archbishop of York.

He had traveled to Yorkshire for the first time in his career, but at Cawood in North Yorkshire, he was accused of treason and ordered to London by Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland.

In great distress, he sets out for the capital with his personal chaplain, Edmund Bonner.

He falls ill on the journey, and dies, around the age of fifty-seven, on November 29, 1530 at Leicester.

Just before his death he reputedly spoke these words,

I see the matter against me how it is framed.

But if I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.