Thomas, Lord Vaux — a remark

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“I humbly require you to be good unto me. I have as I perceive a great many more foes than friends, and am like, your goodness reserved, to be trodden under the feet and to be made a slave.”

A courtier's plea from a recusant peer who felt isolated after withdrawing from public life · Letter to Thomas Cromwell, 28 April 1536

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Thomas, Lord Vaux

25 April 1509–c. October 1556

In the grand tapestry of English Renaissance poetry, few figures occupy such a fascinating yet underexplored position as Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden. Born into privilege and immersed in the turbulent court life of Henry VIII, Vaux emerged as one of the early Tudor poets whose work would bridge the…

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