Three manuscript letters signed by Pole to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese

Item author: Cardinal Reginald Pole
Item date: 1539
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 11,666
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Pole was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterb ury. These letters date from the period at which Pole was a fugitive from Henry VIII on the continent trying to persuade the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France to raise an army to restore England to the Roman obedience

Item Provenance
Sothebys December 1998