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	Thomas More - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial among modern historians for their exceedingly unflattering portrayal of King Richard, a bias due at least in part to the authors' allegiance to the reigning Tudor dynasty, which had wrested the throne from Richard at the end of the Wars of the Roses.
		Thomas Cromwell, at the time the most powerful of the king's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, Richard Rich, to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the king was the legitimate head of the church.
		More was beatified by the Pope in 1886 and canonized in 1935.
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	MSN Encarta - Thomas More
		More was born in London on February 7, 1478, and educated at Canterbury Hall (now Christ Church), University of Oxford.
		More became lord chancellor in 1529; he was the first layman to hold the post.
		More was tried the following year; he refused to take an oath of supremacy, asserting that Parliament did not have the right to usurp papal authority in favor of the king.
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	The Life of Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
		Thomas More was born in Milk Street, London on February 7, 1478, son Sir John More, a prominent judge.
		More had garnered Henry's favor, and was made Speaker of the House of Commons in 1523 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1525.
		In April, 1534, More refused to swear to the Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy, and was committed to the Tower of London on April 17.
	www.luminarium.org /renlit/morebio.htm (802 words)

	Sir Thomas More: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More was the sole surviving son of Sir John More, a prominent lawyer and later judge, and Agnes Graunger.
		More, who had no love of gossip and admired Katharine of Aragon's deep piety (the old queen spent several hours a day on her knees in prayer), was aware that Henry was drifting from him intellectually and spiritually.
		More judiciously replied that he was a faithful servant of the king; in June, the solicitor-general interviewed him and reported to Henry and Cromwell that More had denied parliament's power to confer supreme ecclesiastical authority upon the king.
	www.englishhistory.net /tudor/citizens/more.html (4365 words)

	Sir Thomas More
		Thomas More was born in London on February 7, 1478, the son of Sir John More, a prominent judge.
		Thomas More was implicated in the plot but was not attainted due to protection from the Lords who refused to pass the bill until More's name was taken off the list of those charged with complicity.
		More’s account of events basically follow the same outline as Polydore Vergil but is more richly detailed, further supporting the idea that an eye-witness had supplied More with his information.
	www.richard111.com /sir_thomas_more.htm (1974 words)

	St. Thomas More: Noble Heroism Amidst Treachery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More was a delightful person, one of the simplest and most human saints in the calendar.
		The whole of Christendom was moved also by a spirit which caused the younger men especially, and more especially the more intelligent and emotional of the younger men, to denounce the corruptions of the time, the errors of legend, the exaggeration of certain practices and the doubtfulness or demonstrable falsity of many shrines and relics.
		More should, therefore, according to the order of nature, have become ultimately a violent opponent not only of the social order but of that Divine unity in the Church for which he laid down his life.
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	Sir Thomas More
		In the spring of 1534, Thomas More was taken to the Tower of London, and after fourteen months in prison, the brilliant author of UTOPIA, friend of Erasmus and the humanities, and former Lord Chancellor of England was beheaded on Tower Hill.
		Based on the critical edition of More's correspondence, this volume begins with letters penned by More to Cromwell and Henry VIII in February 1534 and ends with More's last words to his daughter, Margaret Roper, on the eve of his execution.
		More writes on a host of topics--prayer and penance, the right use of riches and power, the joys of heaven, psychological depression and suicidal temptations, the moral compromises of those who imprisoned him, and much more.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~modern/html/more_thomas.htm (861 words)

	Teen Essay: Meeting Sir Thomas More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in 1478, Thomas was reared as a page in the household of Cardinal Morton, who prophesied greatness for his ward.
		More knew that he would suffer for this, but he stood by his decision.
		More also wrote a book called "Utopia," which was an imaginary island where all people were equal and there was no sin.
	www.evangelist.org /archive/htm/teengrif.htm (471 words)

	More, Sir Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More held important government offices and, despite his disapproval of Henry’s divorce from Katharine of Aragón, he was made lord chancellor at the fall of Wolsey (1529).
		Because of his refusal to subscribe to the Act of Supremacy, which impugned the pope’s authority and made Henry the head of the English Church, he was imprisoned (1534) in the Tower and finally beheaded on a charge of treason.
		More was beatified (1886) by a decree of Pope Leo XIII, canonized (1935) by Pius XI, and proclaimed (2000) the patron saint of politicians by John Paul II.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/More-T.html (377 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Thomas More (1477 - 1535)
		Thomas More - lawyer, prolific writer, MP and statesman - was Chancellor of England between 1529 and 1532.
		More took on the post of Lord Chancellor just when King Henry had become determined to obtain a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, something forbidden by church law.
		In 1935 Thomas More was recognised as a catholic saint.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/more_sir_thomas.shtml (351 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: William Roper: The Life of Sir Thomas More
		Sir Thomas More was born in London in 1478, and died on Tower Hill in 1535, along with Bishop John Fisher of Rochester.
		Then took Sir Thomas More his boat towards his house at Chelsea, wherein by the way he was very merry, and for that was I nothing sorry, hoping that he had gotten himself discharged out of the Parliament Bill.
		More) that you are a man both wise and well learned, as well in the laws of the Realm, as otherwise, I pray you therefore, Sir, let me be so bold as of good will to put unto you this case.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/16Croper-more.html (5819 words)

	Sir Thomas More
		When Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher were canonized (a declaration by a pope that a person is in Heaven and worthy of veneration) in 1935, the British press filled their columns with superstitious accounts of the lives of these men.
		More's praises may be read in every history of England; he was the ideal of Catholicism of this period.
		Sir Thomas More, as Chancellor of England and guardian of her laws, sanctioned the imprisonment, torture and death of English subjects.
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	The Trial of Sir Thomas More, 1535
		More was a devout Catholic and believed deeply in the supremacy of the Pope and the impropriety of this marriage.
		More was questioned several times by friends of the king but he was always careful never to say anything against the King personally; just that he could not stomach the oath required by the Act of Supremacy.
		Thomas More was then led back to London Tower, but this time with the Tower's axe before him, pointed edge leading the procession and towards the convict as was the custom.
	www.duhaime.org /Law_museum/uk-more.aspx (1744 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas More
		In the epitaph which More himself composed twenty years later he calls her "uxorcula Mori", and a few lines in one of Erasmus' letters are almost all we know of her gentle, winning personality.
		More denied the chief charges of the indictment, which was enormously long, and denounced Rich, the solicitor-general and chief witness against him as a perjuror.
		Thomas More was formally beatified by Pope Leo XIII, in the Decree of 29 December, 1886.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14689c.htm (3997 words)

	Sir Thomas More, 1478-1535
		The English statesman, Sir Thomas More, later canonized as Saint Thomas More (1935), was born the son of a lawyer who later became a judge.
		His daughter Margaret, the wife of his biographer William Roper (Life of Sir Thomas More), was distinguished for her high character, accomplishments, and pious devotion to her father.
		By nature More is chary of his liberty and of ease, yet, though he enjoys ease, no one is more alert or patient when duty requires it.
	www.historyguide.org /earlymod/stmore.html (1626 words)

	Thomas More's Political Martyrdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For his failure and eventual refusal to swear to the Act of Succession and the Act of Supremacy, Thomas More was forced to resign and imprisoned in the Bell Tower at the Tower of London.
		More finally fell prey to the Act of Treason, which allowed his reluctance to swear to be interpreted as an act of malice against the king.
		More's defense on this point was silence, although he defended himself vigorously in the trial.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /cdesmet/more.htm (372 words)

	Memorable Quotes from A Man for All Seasons (1966) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir Thomas More: I am commanded by the king to be brief, and since I am the king's obedient subject, brief I will be.
		Sir Thomas More: I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
		Sir Thomas More: God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0060665/quotes (1057 words)

	Sir Thomas More & Utopia
		More's playful fusing of genres is characteristic of European humanism, as is his self-deflating wit.
		Characters: "More" (in quotes to distinguish him from More, the author); Raphael Hythloday the traveler from Utopia; Peter Giles, More's and "More"'s friend and a native of Antwerp (Belgium); King Utopus, founder of Utopia; the Anemolian ambassadors, and other minor members of Utopian society.
		More sets out certain geographical and social starting points for the founding of Utopia which might be viewed as essential for the success of the strange experiment he contemplates there.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/sir_thomas_more__utopia.htm (1065 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Life of Thomas More, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More was not, however, a reactionary except when the radicalism of the Lutherans pushed him to stringent and violent acts needed to defend the integrity of his perception of the Christian world.
		More persecuted his countrymen who deviated from the Catholic faith, and published vile condemnations of Luther, and eventually, knowingly, and humbly, sacrificed his own life to his own interpretation of that faith.
		I never saw Paul Scofield's More as a Thoreau-like figure, as some reviewers have said; he was not depicted as living in a house in the woods, after all, and he did base his decision on adherence to a greater principle than personal conscience, i.e., the law, just as Ackroyd's More does.
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	Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Thomas More: Utopia, 1516
		More, both in your opinion of me, and in the judgment you make of things: for as I have not that capacity that you fancy I have, so, if I had it, the public would not be one jot the better, when I had sacrificed my quiet to it.
		More knows well what he was), that was not less venerable for his wisdom and virtues than for the high character he bore.
		More, I have run out into a tedious story, of the length of which I had been ashamed, if, as you earnestly begged it of me, I had not observed you to hearken to it, as if you had no mind to lose any part of it.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/thomasmore-utopia.html (9873 words)

	Thomas More
		Sir Thomas More (later canonized St. Thomas More) is famous for his book Utopia (1515) and for his martyrdom.
		More coined the term "utopia" which is a pun meaning both "good place" and "no place." More's Utopia is discovered on a voyage to the newly discovered Americas.
		In contrast to the Platonic Republic, More's society is a communistic democracy and not an aristocracy with communism confined to the ruling elite.
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	Sir Thomas More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		English saint and diplomat, More was the author or Utopia and lord chancellor from 1529 to 1532.
		More was called to Lambeth on April 13, 1534 to confirm by oath the Act of Succession (March 1534) which, in part, declared the king's marriage to Catherine void and the one to Anne valid.
		More was beatified on December 29, 1886, and was canonized on May 19, 1935.
	www.things.org /music/al_stewart/history/thomas_more.html (250 words)

	Thomas More's Life _About Thomas More_ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas More rose from humble origins to achieve the highest political and judicial office of England, second only to that of the king.
		By the age of 25, More was convinced that his place was with city and family, not monastery and cell.
		More was executed on July 6, 1535, and canonized on May 19, 1935.
	www.d-holliday.com /tmore/bio.htm (959 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Thomas More (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Thomas More, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		Sir Thomas More (Saint Thomas More), 1478–1535, English statesman and author of Utopia, celebrated as a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church.
		More held important government offices and, despite his disapproval of Henry's divorce from Katharine of AragOn, he was made lord chancellor at the fall of Wolsey (1529).
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	More, Sir Thomas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(Saint Thomas More), 1478-1535, English statesman and author of Utopia, celebrated as a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church.
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