Yet Wolsey’s handicap as Church reformer, apart from personal self-indulgence far outstripping any other late medieval English cleric, was the vast scope of his duties not simply as papal legate, but also as omnicompetent royal minister and dispenser of justice in Star Chamber. It was just all too much.86 Wolsey also had a personality defect deriving as much from his limited attention-span as from the burdens of his work.
