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September 8, 2026 | History
2nd Edition.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
1480-1501. AETAT. 28.
More's Youth — Education — Study of the Law — Marriage 1
CHAPTER II.
1508-1517. AETAT. 36.
More Under-sheriff of London — Ambassador to Flanders — Knighted and accepts Office 17
CHAPTER III.
1512—1517. AETAT. 36.
More in the bosom of his Family 39
CHAPTER IV.
1517—1526. AETAT. 43.
More at Court — Quells a popular tumult — Is made Treasurer of the Exchequer — Defends Henry against Luther — Made Speaker of the House of Commons 65
CHAPTER V.
1525-1529. AETAT. 50.
The Divorce — The Mission to France — More as a Controversialist — The Epidemic of 1528 — Embassy to the Netherlands 105
CHAPTER VI.
1529—1532. AETAT. 53.
Progress of the Divorce — Wolsey's disgrace — More made Chancellor — Rise of Crumwell — More resigns the Chancellorship — Lord Audley Chancellor 138
CHAPTER VII.
1532—1534. AETAT. 54.
More in his retirement — New domestic arrangements — His poverty — Offering of the Bishops — Accusation and Apology — Cranmer — Marriage of Henry and Anne Boleyn — The Nun of Kent — Bishop Fisher — More accused of Misprision of Treason — Statutes of Succession and Allegiance — More refuses the Oath - Committed to the Tower 189
CHAPTER VIII.
1534-1535. AETAT. 55.
More in the Tower — Project of his Daughter Margaret — Correspondence of Mrs. Alington and Margaret — Private Examinations of More in the Tower — His Trial — Defence — Reply to Rich — His Sentence — Interrogatories put to him after his Trial — His Execution 240
CHAPTER IX.
Opinions respecting More 358
APPENDIX.
Queen Catharine and King Henry to Cardinal Wolsey — a joint letter (1574) 377
More's Epitaph, composed by himself 378
More's Letter to Cromwell 382
Henry VIII 394
Dr. Wilson (Extract from) 397
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