Nobles saw themselves as born royal advisers, and deeply resented an upstart whose father had been no more than a prosperous butcher and livestock-dealer in the provincial port town of Ipswich. England in Tudor times was a society obsessed with gradations of hierarchy and status (some say it still is), but there was nothing that outraged nobility and gentry could do while Wolsey continued to please the King, and of course many of them hastened to profit from his spectacular good fortune.
