translation of the relics of the holy King to Westminster. According to the will of Henry VII, made in the last year of his life, his successor was urged "to translate right shortly" to Westminster "the body and relics of our Uncle of blessed memory, King Henry the VIth." Almost twenty years after the death of Henry VII, namely in 1528—the year before the fall of Wolsey—the idea of securing the canonization does not appear to have been entirely given up. The King's Ambassadors to the Holy See, D. Gardiner Fox, the royal almoner, and Sir Gregory de Cassalis, then engaged in the matter of the King's divorce, wrote to Cardinal Wolsey from Orvieto, in regard to the proposed canonization as follows: "We have moved the Pope's holiness as towching the Canonization of K. Henry VI, who answerith that he is very well content to make schort process therein; but the matiers must; be examyned here, requiring a number of Cardinals therat, with other ceremonies, which cannot be done there. Wherefore yf my Lord of Canterbury and my Lord of Winchester, who have examyned the matier in partibus do send the process hither as their
