George Cavendish (1497 – c. 1562) was an English writer, best known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. His Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the "most important single contemporary source for Wolsey's life" which also offers a "detailed picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political events in the 1520s, particularly the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon. (From Wikipedia)
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Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The history of the life and times of Cardinal Wolsey, prime minister to King Henry VIII. ... In which are interspersed the lives and memorable actions of the most eminent persons: and the whole illustrated with political and moral reflections (Printed by J. Purser for the author, 1742), also by Joseph Grove (page images at HathiTrust)- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey (Houghton Mifflin, 1905), also by Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life and death of Thomas Wolsey (J.M. Dent & co., 1908), also by Thomas Churchyard and Frederick Startridge Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life and death of Thomas Wolsey (J.M. Dent & Co., 1908), also by Thomas Churchyard and Frederick Startridge Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life and death of Thomas Wolsey (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd., 1899), also by Thomas Churchyard and Frederick Startridge Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey (Macmillan, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey. (For Harding and Lepard, 1827), also by Samuel Weller Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey (Rivingtons, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey (G. Routlege and sons, limd., 1890), also by Thomas Churchyard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey (Chiswick, from the press of C. Whittingham, for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825), also by Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Whittingham, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey. (Routlege;, 1887), also by Thomas Churchyard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey. (Routlege;, 1885), also by Henry Morley and Thomas Churchyard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, ed. by Samuel Weller Singer, contrib. by George Wyatt (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The life of Cardinal Wolsey; and Metrical visions from the original autograph manuscript (C. Whittingham, 1825), also by George Wyatt, Joseph Hunter, and Samuel Weller Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The memoirs of that great favourite, Cardinal Woolsey; with remarks on his rise and fall; and other secret transactions of his ministry in church and state. Together with A memorial presented to Queen Elizabeth, by William Cecil, lord Burleigh, then Lord High-Treasurer of England, to prevent Her Majesty's being engrossed by any particular favourite. (B. Bragg, 1706), also by Charles Cholmondeley and William Cecil Burghley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?: The negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the great Cardinall of England containing his life and death, viz. (1) the originall of his promotion, (2) the continuance in his magnificence, (3) his fall, death, and buriall / composed by one of his owne servants, being his gentleman-vsher. (London : Printed for William Sheeres, 1641), also by William Cavendish (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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