Freston Tower

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"Freston Tower : A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey" by Richard Cobbold is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. Centered on the Suffolk landmark of Freston Tower and the early life of Thomas Wolsey, it blends local history with a moral meditation on ambition, learning, and piety. The narrative follows young Wolsey, his patrons Lord De Freston and the gifted Ellen De Freston, and the Oxford scholar William Latimer, as scholarship, friendship, and nascent reformist ideas intersect along the River Orwell. The opening of the work presents Wolsey as a brilliant, ambitious youth reading Homer on the Orwell’s shore, then welcomed to De Freston’s castle to meet Latimer and Ellen.