Thereafter he retired from public life, but published a number of pamphlets on ecclesiastical matters.
In 1685, Wolseley was arrested on suspicion of complicity in Monmouth's Rebellion, but was subsequently released.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and, unlike many of his contemporaries, not disinterred after the reformation.
Dean Stanley describes his earthen grave in the southern portion of the Montpensier chapel.
Wolseley married Ann Fiennes, youngest daughter of William, Viscount Saye and Sele and his wife Elizabeth Temple.