Project Gutenberg 2025-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 288 Cobbold, Richard 1797 1877 Cobbold, R. Freston Tower : $b A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey $aLondon :$bWard, Lock and Co., $c1880. Al Haines "Freston Tower : A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey" by Richard Cobbold is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. Centered on the Suffolk landmark of Freston Tower and the early life of Thomas Wolsey, it blends local history with a moral meditation on ambition, learning, and piety. The narrative follows young Wolsey, his patrons Lord De Freston and the gifted Ellen De Freston, and the Oxford scholar William Latimer, as scholarship, friendship, and nascent reformist ideas intersect along the River Orwell. The opening of the work presents Wolsey as a brilliant, ambitious youth reading Homer on the Orwell’s shore, then welcomed to De Freston’s castle to meet Latimer and Ellen. Latimer unveils the plan of Freston Tower—six ascending rooms dedicated to charity, needlework, music, painting, literature, and astronomy—to shape Ellen’s studies, and the trio share vigorous talk on books, politics, and religion amid unease with Richard III and growing interest in scriptural truth. Scenes in the baron’s hall show the household’s order and the retainers’ speculation about Ellen’s suitors, while a river excursion to Ipswich features a poignant episode of a mother dolphin following her wounded young, which deeply moves Ellen. The party lands at St. Peter’s Priory, leaves the boatmen with hospitable monks, and proceeds toward Edmund Daundy’s house, their purpose plainly to secure support and permission for Wolsey’s hoped‑for return to Oxford. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250922161540cobbold 1880 GB en Historical fiction Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530 -- Fiction PR Text 746174 2025-11-30T10:15:44.140241 text/html 724485 2025-10-07T00:43:13 text/html 700221 2025-11-30T10:15:51.854245 application/epub+zip 710174 2025-11-30T10:15:45.223265 application/epub+zip 355604 2025-11-30T10:15:44.684230 application/epub+zip 905485 2025-11-30T10:15:56.714229 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 890599 2025-11-30T10:15:51.277241 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 700061 2025-11-30T10:15:42.720299 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 680333 2025-10-07T00:43:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15408 2025-11-30T10:15:56.854171 application/rdf+xml 25295 2025-11-30T10:15:44.784239 image/jpeg 3606 2025-11-30T10:15:44.733248 image/jpeg 819211 2025-11-30T10:15:44.216237 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia