For when the schoolemaster mounted to the dig|nitie to be chancellor of England, he sent for master Paulet, & after manie sharpe words, inioined him to attend vntill he were dismissed, and not to depart out of London without licence obteined; so that he continued there within the middle Temple the space of fiue or six yeares, and laie then in the Gate house next the stréet,Gatehouse of the middle Temple new builded. which he reedified verie sumptuouslie, garnishing the same all ouer the outside with the car|dinals armes, with his hat, cognisances, and other deuises in so glorious a sort, that he thought thereby to haue appeased his old displeasure.

Now after the deceasse of the lord marquesse, this same schoolemaster considering himselfe to be but a simple beneficed man, and to haue lost his fellowship in the college, which was much to his reléefe, thought not long to be vnprouided of some other helpe, and in his trauell thereabouts, he fell in acquaintance with one sir Iohn Naphant,Sir Iohn Naphant treasuror of Calis, Tho|mas Wolsie his chapleine. a verie graue & ancient knight, who had a great roome in Calis vnder king Henrie the seuenth: this knight he serued, and beha|ued himselfe so discreetlie, that he obteined the espe|ciall fauor of his master, insomuch that he commit|ted all the charge of his office vnto his chapleine, and (as I vnderstand) the office was the treasurorship of Calis, who was in consideration of his great age discharged of his roome, and returned againe into England, and thorough his instant labor, his chap|leine was promoted to be the kings chapleine,Thomas Wolsie was chapleine to Henrie the s [...]uenth. and when he had once cast anchor in the port of promoti|on, how he wrought, I shall somewhat declare.

He hauing there a iust occasion to be in the sight of the king dailie, by reason he said masse before him in his closet, and that being doone, he spent not the daie in idlenesse, but would attend vpon those whom he thought to beare most rule in the councell, the which at that time was doctor For, bishop of Win|chester, secretarie, and lord of the priuie seale: and al|so sir Thomas Louell knight, a sage councellor, ma|ster of the wards, and constable of the Tower: these graue councellors in processe of time perceiued this chapleine to haue a verie fine wit, and thought him a méet person to be preferred to wittie affaires. It chanced at a certeine season that the king had an vr|gent occasion to send an ambassador vnto the empe|ror Maximilian, who laie at that present in the low countrie of Flanders, not farre from Calis.