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RICHARD PACE (c. 1482-1536)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:PACE (c. 1482-1536)  , See also:English diplomatist, was educated at See also:Winchester under See also:Thomas See also:Langton, at See also:Padua, at See also:Bologna, and probably at See also:Oxford . In 1509 he went with See also:Cardinal See also:Christopher See also:Bainbridge, See also:archbishop of See also:York, to See also:Rome, where he won the esteem of See also:Pope See also:Leo X., who advised See also:Henry VIII. to take him into his service . The English See also:king did so, and in 1515 See also:Pace became his secretary and in 1516 a secretary of See also:state . In 1515 See also:Wolsey sent him to urge the Swiss to attack See also:France, and in 1519 he went to See also:Germany to discuss with the See also:electors the impending See also:election to the imperial See also:throne . He was made See also:dean of St See also:Paul's in 1519, and was also dean of See also:Exeter and dean of See also:Salisbury . He was See also:present at the See also:Field of the See also:Cloth of See also:Gold in 1520, and in 1521 he went to See also:Venice with the See also:object of winning the support of the See also:republic for Wolsey, who was anxious at this See also:time to become pope . At the end of 1526 he was recalled to See also:England, and he died in 1536 . His See also:chief See also:literary See also:work was De fructu (See also:Basel, 1517) .

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