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began to be troubled with the gout ; but the de- 

 fluxion taking also into his breast, wasted his lungs, 

 so that thrice in a year, in a kind of return, and 

 especially in the spring, he had great h ts and labours 

 of the phthisic : nevertheless, he continued to intend 

 business with as great diligence, as before in his 

 health : yet so, as upon this warning he did likewise 

 now more seriously think of the world to come, 

 and of making himself a saint, as well as King 

 Henry the bixth, by treasure better employed, than 

 to be given to Pope Julius ; for this year he gave 

 greater alms than accustomed, and discharged all 

 prisoners about the city, that lay for fees or debts 

 under forty shillings. He did also make haste with 

 religious foundations ; and in the year following, 

 which was the three and twentieth, finished that of 

 the Savoy. And hearing also of the bitter cries of 

 his people against the oppressions of Dudley and 

 Empson, and their complices ; partly by devout per 

 sons about him, and partly by public sermons, the 

 preachers doing their duty therein, he was touched 

 with great remorse for the same. Nevertheless 

 Empson and Dudley, though they could not but 

 hear of these scruples in the king s conscience ; yet, 

 as if the king s soul and his money were in several 

 offices, that the one was not to intermeddle with the 

 other, went on with as great rage as ever. For the 

 same three and twentieth year was there a sharp 

 prosecution against Sir William Capel now the 

 second time ; and this was for matters of misgovern- 

 ment in his mayoralty : the great matter being, that 

 in some payments he had taken knowledge of false 



