Richard Foxe
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Richard Foxe was an English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord Privy Seal.
Richard Foxe, portrait after Johannes Corvus, late 16th century, National Portrait Gallery, London. At left are the arms of the See of Exeter impaling Foxe (Azure, a pelican in her piety or) at right are the arms of the See of Winchester impaling Foxe, the whole circumscribed by the Garter
The crosier of Bishop Foxe, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Bishop Foxe at the deathbed of Henry VII at Richmond, 1509. The Bishop stands 1st. at Henry's left-hand, his armourials above. From a contemporary drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley. BL Add.MS 45131,f.54
Thomas Wolsey
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Thomas Wolsey was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state. He also held important ecclesiastical appointments. These included the Archbishop of York—the second most important role in the English church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy.
Heraldic banner of Wolsey as Archbishop of York, showing the arms of the See of York impaling his personal arms, with a cardinal's hat above. The griffin supporter holds the Lord Chancellor's mace
Thomas Wolsey by an unknown artist c. 1520 held in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Queen Catherine of Aragon, by an unknown artist