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Cawood, North Yorkshire is in Selby, North Yorkshire [Map].
On 19th July 1352 Archbishop William Zouche died at Cawood, North Yorkshire [Map]. He was buried at York Minster [Map].
On 29th May 1500 Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 76) died of plague at Cawood, North Yorkshire [Map].
On 3rd September 1507 Archbishop Thomas Savage (age 58) died at Cawood, North Yorkshire [Map].
The River Ouse is formed by the confluence of the River Ure and River Swale around 900m south-west of Myton-on-Swale [Map]; there are other theories as to where it starts. Thereafter it flows broadly south-east through York [Map], past Cawood, North Yorkshire [Map], Selby, North Yorkshire [Map], Goole [Map] and the location of the former Whitgift Ferry, East Yorkshire [Map] before joining the Humber Estuary at Trent Falls [Map].
Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire is also in Castles in North Yorkshire.
On 6th December 1315 Archbishop William Greenfield died at his palace Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire [Map]. He was buried in the Eastern Transept of York Minster [Map] where is monument is extant.
On 5th April 1340 Archbishop William Melton (age 65) died at Cawood Palace [Map].
On 6th September 1465 Archbishop George Neville (age 33) was enthroned as Archbishop of York at Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire [Map]. Isabel Neville Duchess Clarence (age 14), Anne Neville Queen Consort England (age 9) and King Richard III of England (age 12) were present.
On 4th November 1530 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (age 57) was arrested by Henry Percy 6th Earl of Northumberland (age 28) and Walter Walsh, a groom of King Henry VIII’s privy chamber, at Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire [Map] on a charge of treason.
Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. The kyng whiche knew his doynges and priuye conueyaunce, all this yere dissembled the matter to see what he would do at length, till that be saw his proud heart so hyghly exalted that he would be so triumphantly installed without makiug the kyng priuye, yea and in maner in disdayne of the kyng, thought it not mete rior conuenient to suffer him any longer to continue in his malicious and proude purposes and attemptes: wherfore he directed his letters to Henry the vi Erle of Northumberland (age 28), willing him with all diligence to arrest the Cardinal and to deliuer him to therle of Shrewsbury great Stewarde of the kynges housholde: When the erle had seen the letter, he with a convenient nomber came to the Manor of Cawod [Map] the iiii day of Nouember [1530], and when he was brought to the Cardinal in his chamber, he said to him, my lord I pray you take pacience, for here I arrest you. Arrest me sayd ye Cardinal, yea sayd the erle 1 haue a commaundement so to do: you haue no such power sayd the Cardinal, for I am both a Cardinal and a Legate de Latere and a pere of the College of Rome & ought not to be arrested by any temporal power, for I am not subject to that power, wherfore if you arrest me I will withstand it: well sayd the erle here is the kings Commission (which he shewed him) and therfore 1 charge you to obey, the Cardinal somewhat remembered himselfe and sayd, well my lord, I am content to obey, but although that I by negligence fell into the punishnient of the Premunire and lost by the lawe all my landes and goodes, yet my person was in the kynges proteccion and I was pardoned that offence, wherfore I meruail why I nowe should be arrested & specially consideryng that I am a member of the sea Apostolike on whom no temporal man ought to lay violent handes, wel I see the king lacketh good counsail: wel sayd the erle when I was sworne Warden of the Marches, you your self told me that I might with my staffe arrest all men vnder the degree of a kyng, and now I am more stronger for I haue a comission so to do whiche you haue seen. The Cardinal at length obeyed and was kept in his priuie chamber and his goodes seazed and his officers discharged, and his Phisician called doctor Augustyne was lykewise arrested and brought to the Tower by sir Walter Welshe one of the kynges chamber.
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Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. 29th November 1530. This yeare, on the even of St. Andrewe,d the Cardinall, Thomas Wolsey (age 57), died at Leicester, cominge to London to his indictment,e and there is buried in Our Ladies Chappell. Some recken he killed himselfe with purgations.f
Note d. November 29.
Note e. The Cardinal had been arrested by the Earl of Northumberland (age 28) on a charge of high treason at Cawood [Map], near York, on the 4th of November.
Note f. Wolsey is generally believed to hare died of dysentery at Leicester Abbey [Map], on the third day of his jourmey, about 8 o'clock in the morning of the 29th of November, being in the sixtieth year of his age. He was buried at midnight, without any solemnity, in Our Lady Chapel in the church of that monastery.
The River Wharfe rises on the moors above High Birkwith, North Yorkshire [Map] after which it travels broadly south past Kettlewell, North Yorkshire [Map], Grassington, North Yorkshire [Map], under the Hebden Suspension Bridge [Map], past Burnsall Craven [Map], Howgill, West Yorkshire [Map], under Barden Bridge, West Yorkshire [Map], through te The Strid, West Yorkshire, past Bolton Priory, North Yorkshire [Map] and Bolton Bridge, North Yorkshire [Map], then Ilkley, North Yorkshire [Map], Burley in Wharfedale, West Yorkshire [Map], Otley, West Yorkshire [Map], Harewood House [Map], Wetherby [Map] and Tadcaster, Yorkshire [Map], Kirkby Wharfe, West Yorkshire [Map], Rhyther, West Yorkshire [Map] before joining the River Ouse 1.25 Km north of Confluence of the Rivers Wharfe and Ouse [Map].