In this article, we look at W. Tyndale’s assessment of the service of the English cardinal and chancellor Thomas Wolsey. In the treatise «Practice of the Papisticall Рrelates», the English reformer covered in detail the activities of the cardinal and analyzed his role in domestic and foreign policy of the state. Tyndale, who harbored no good feelings to the first minister of Henry VIII, accused him of all the troubles that befell England in the first third of the 16th century (unsuccessful war with France on the side of the Empire, the king's divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the persecution of reformers). William Tyndale called the English Cardinal a traitor to the State, who, in his opinion, paid too small a price for his endless atrocities.
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