02442cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500180014626400510016430000470021533600260026233700260028833800360031450000310035050800140038152015460039553400600194165300230200165300420202485600430206699900190210976999UtSlPG20260610134801.0mcr n260607r20251880utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aCobbold, Richard,d1797-187710aFreston Tower 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-07  aAl Haines  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Ward, Lock and Co., 1880  aHistorical fiction  aWolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530 -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76999  c117723d117723