In the background of this immediate unpleasantness was Westminster’s decades-long neglect of northern interests, symbolized by the lack of a resident Archbishop of York between Thomas Savage’s death in 1507 and Wolsey’s belated arrival in 1529, but above all by Henry VIII’s laziness in never having visited his northern shires. That was in sharp contrast to his father, who went to York three times. In the fickle memory of northerners, who had once given Richard III his only taste of popularity, Henry VII was now the focus for nostalgia.
