"[5] The Spanish diplomat Eustace Chapuys wrote to Emperor Charles V that "A son of [Wolsey's], who is in Paris following his studies, and of whom I have formerly written to your Majesty, has received orders to return," to England in October 1529.
[9] Within a few years, Wynter received dispensation to start holding clerical offices, and obtained three benefices by June 1522, including the lucrative prebend of Milton at Lincoln Cathedral.
[15] Wynter would often entertain guests, and was forced to spend considerable sums of money on furniture and housing to befit the son of a Cardinal as important as Wolsey.
[19] Despite his son's less than stellar intellect, Wolsey continued to try and bestow greater honours on Wynter, including a failed attempt to secure the Diocese of Durham in 1528.
[22] Further, though there many prebends and benefices were held in pluralism, the parishioners of England were, for the most part, content with the state of the Church, and there were clergymen in the parishes to administer the sacraments.
He reached out and came under the patronage of two of the leading ministers in Henry VIII's government, Bishop Gardiner[26] and his father's former protégé Thomas Cromwell.
[1] In 1530, Wynter joined the Doctors Commons, a legal body whose members included such powerful figures as Sir Thomas More, Cuthbert Tunstall and Nicholas West.
[28] Wynter regularly wrote to Cromwell to update him on his studies, and to pass on whatever news or gossip he picked while meeting ambassadors and scholars from across Europe.
"[31] Wynter remained in England for the next several years, resident at either Cawood Castle in his Archdeaconry of York, or Beverley where he still held the provostship.
[34] As most of Wynter's lands and other property were in the East Riding of Yorkshire, he decided to rent out the Cornish archdeaconry to one William Bodye, a servant of Cromwell.
[36] Over the next three years, Bodye received the rents and fees due to Wynter, slowly building up a resentment among the parishioners and the resident clergy.
[37] Following this citation, Bodye was refused admittance into the Church in Cornwall and forcibly prevented from trying to collect payments from the parishioners.
[39] Over the course of the unfolding events and lawsuits involving William Bodye, Wynter resigned his positions as archdeacon of York.