“I am come to leave my bones among you.”

—  Thomas Wolsey

To the Abbot of Leicester, knowing that he was dying. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWolsey(Cardinal).htm

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English political figure and cardinal 1473–1530

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