much himself in the way of remedying the clerical and especially the monastic depravity, licence and corruption he deplored. His sight failed during the last ten years of his life, and Matthew Parker claimed that Wolsey suggested his retirement from his diocese on a pension. Foxe refused, and Wolsey had to wait until Foxe's death before he could add occupation of Winchester to his holding the archdiocese of York and the abbey of St Albans, and thus leave Durham vacant as he hoped for his own illegitimate son. Foxe died on 5 October 1528. The crown of Foxe's career was his foundation of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he established in 1515–1516, and which was roundly praised by humanist Erasmus. Originally he intended it as an Oxford house for the monks of St Swithin's, Winchester; but he is said to have been dissuaded by Bishop Oldham, who foretold the fall of the monks. The scheme breathed the spirit of the Renaissance; provision was made for the teaching of Greek, Latin and patristic texts. While Erasmus praised the institution, Pole was one of its earliest fellows. The humanist Juan Luís Vives was brought from Italy to teach Latin, and the reader in theology was instructed to follow the Greek and Latin Fathers rather than the scholastic commentaries. Foxe also built and endowed grammar schools at Taunton and Grantham and was a benefactor to numerous other institutions. He died at Wolvesey; Corpus possesses several portraits and other relics of its founder. See also List of Erasmus's correspondents List of chancellors of the University of Cambridge Citations References Letters and Papers of henry VII. and Henri. VIII., vols. i.-iv.; Spanish and Venetian Calendars of State Papers; James Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation and Church History 1485–1558; Pollard, Henry VIII; Longman's Political History, vol. v.; authorities cited in the article by Thomas Fowler in the Dictionary of National Biography. 1440s births 1528 deaths Secretaries of State of the Kingdom of England Lords Privy Seal 16th-century English Roman Catholic bishops People from Grantham Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Masters of Pembroke College, Cambridge Bishops of Durham Bishops of Exeter Bishops of Bath and Wells Bishops of Winchester 15th-century English Roman Catholic bishops English Renaissance humanists Burials at Winchester Cathedral Founders of colleges of the University of Oxford Year of birth uncertain