The common man gathers the robes of Cardinal Wolsey and places them in his basket. He then reads the cause of death. Wolsey has died of either a broken heart or pulmonary pneumonia. He died on the way to the Tower of London for a charge of High Treason. The common man goes on to say that Sir Thomas More, the new Chancellor, is more scholarly that Wolsey. Many people consider More to be a living Saint. The common man comments that his only problem is a "willful.....
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