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Authors: Peter Ackroyd
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1
Hilton,
Scale of Perfection
, 251
2
Fisher, 161
3
Lane Fox, 435
4
Yale, vol. 13,
Treatise on the Passion
, 42
5
Quoted in Keith Thomas,
Religion and the Decline of Magic
, 69
1
Thrupp, 144
2
Stow, 284
3
E. E. Reynolds, ‘More, Coverdale and Cromwell’,
Moreana
, vol. 3(10), 77
4
Bridgett, 6
5
There is another Thomas Graunger, merchant and later alderman, who is likely to have been Thomas More’s uncle.
6
Quoted in Starkey, ‘Court, Council and Nobility in Tudor England’, 191
7
Pico della Mirandola
, 4
8
Reynolds,
The Field is Won
, 18
9
Sutton, ‘Order and Fashion in Clothes’, 263
10
Sullivan, vol. 3, 315
11
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 254
12
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, 165
13
Yale, vol. 6, 313
14
E. E. Reynolds, ‘Relict of Sir John’,
Moreana
, vol. 5 (19–20), 25
15
Thrupp, 134
16
Ibid., 136
17
Yale, vol. 8, 492
18
Yale, vol. 12, 159
19
Yale, vol. 6, 94
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Yale, vol. 11, 208
21
Quoted in Orme, 138
22
Quoted in de la Bère, 68
23
Yale, vol. 12, 114
24
Ibid., 116–17
25
Ibid., 115
26
Quoted in Thrupp, 202
27
Sneyd, 20–2
28
Ibid., 21
29
Ibid., 22
30
Ibid., 42
1
Yale, vol. 12, 46
2
Quoted in Orme, 119
3
Pendrill, 4–6
4
Stow, 259
5
Ibid., 194
6
Chaucer, 376
7
Roper, ed. Singer, 3
8
Quoted in William Nelson, ‘The Teaching of English in Tudor Grammar Schools’, 124–5
9
Ibid., 124
10
Quoted in Wegg, 129
11
Chaucer, 376
12
Quoted in Pattison, 10
13
Translated in Wegg, 104
14
Yale, vol. 11, 159
15
Taken from Pantin,
Latin and English Proverbs and Riddles
, 14–23
16
Quoted in Carole Weinberg, ‘Thomas More and the Use of English in Early Tudor Education’,
Moreana
, vol. 15 (59–60), 24
17
William Nelson, ‘Teaching of English’, 134
18
Yale, vol. 8, 468
19
Quoted in Stanier, 41
20
Langland, 44
21
Erikson, 75
22
Quoted in Orme, 140
23
Ibid., 129
24
Quoted in R. L. de Molen, ‘Pueri Christi Imitatio: The Festival of the Boy-Bishop in Tudor England’,
Moreana
, vol. 12 (45), 20
25
Cresacre More, 18
26
Stow, 101
27
Ibid.
28
Ibid., 195
29
Ibid.
30
Yale, vol. 11, 12
31
Ibid., 99
32
Yale, vol. 5, 60
33
Yale, vol. 11, 177
1
Sneyd, 25
2
Quoted in Stevens, 318
3
Sneyd, 98
4
Ibid., 100
5
Ibid., 101
6
Quoted in Wegg, 5
7
Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 5
8
Furnivall, 134
9
Chambers,
A Fifteenth Century Courtesy Book
, 15
10
Quoted in Walter, 4
11
Johnson
12
Harper-Bill,
The Register of John Morton
, 10, 20 and 65
13
Foss, 66
14
Bacon,
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, 199–200
15
Quoted in Mozley, 13
16
Yale, vol. 4, 60
17
Yale, vol. 2, 91
18
Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 5
19
Ibid.
20
Fulgens and Lucrece
, lines 1057 and 1217, quoted in A. H. Nelson,
The Plays of Henry Medwall
21
Cresacre More, 20
1
Quoted in Lyte, 180
2
Pantin,
Canterbury College Oxford
, vol. 4, 145
3
Quoted in Howard Baker, ‘Thomas More at Oxford’,
Moreana
, vol. 11 (43–4), 7–8
4
Yale, vol. 6, 132
5
Trapp and Herbruggen, 52
6
Yale, vol. 8, 197
7
Yale, vol. 7,
Letter Against Frith
, 251
8
Yale, vol. 11, 208, 215 and 212
9
Yale, vol. 9, 67
10
Cresacre More, 9
11
Sullivan, vol. 3, 148
12
Yale, vol. 8, 447
13
Cresacre More, 9
14
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 328
15
Quoted in Campbell, 100
16
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to Martin Dorp
, 28
17
Ibid., 36
18
To the Nobility of the German Nation
, in Luther,
Selections
, 46
19
White, Michael, and Gribbin, John,
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
(1992), 290
20
Ibid., 252
21
Hawking, 175
22
Stubbs, quoted in Holdsworth, 129
23
Erasmus,
Praise of Folly
, 116
24
Quoted in Ong,
Ramus
, 56
25
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to Martin Dorp
, 28 and 30
26
Quoted in J. Derrett, ‘The Trial of Sir Thomas More’, in Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 72
27
Quoted in Ro: Ba., 73
28
Quoted in Rashdall, Powicke and Emden, vol. 3, 414
29
Thrupp, 142
30
Pantin,
Canterbury College Oxford
, vol. 4, 228
31
Chaucer,
General Prologue
, lines 289–90
32
Quoted in Cobban, 373
33
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 16
34
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 3
35
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 21
36
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, ciii-civ
37
Ibid.
38
Quoted in Willow, 18
39
Quoted in A. H. Nelson,
The English Medieval Stage
, 174
40
Quoted in Potter, 44
41
Quoted in Cawley, xviii
42
Quoted in Anglo, 67
43
Quoted in Home, 14
1
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 17
2
Quoted in Thrupp, 318
3
Ives,
The Common Lawyers, 7
4
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 460
5
Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 51
6
Quoted in Holdsworth, 498
7
Ibid., 494
8
Quoted in Ives,
The Common Lawyers
, 156 and 170
9
Stapleton, 14
10
Quoted in Holdsworth, 512
11
Ibid., 550–1
12
Ibid.
13
Ibid., 552
14
Quoted in D. R. Kelly, ‘The Conscience of “The King’s Good Servant” ’, 294
15
Yale, vol. 10, 37
16
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 221
17
Ives,
The Common Lawyers
, 37
18
Ibid.
19
Quoted in Foss, 114
20
Quoted in D. R. Kelly, ‘The Conscience of “The King’s Good Servant” ’, 294
21
Quoted in R. J. Schoeck, ‘More, Sallust and Fortune’,
Moreana
, vol. 17 (65–6), 108
22
Quoted in D. R. Kelly, ‘The Conscience of “The King’s Good Servant’ ”, 64
23
Quoted in Pickthorn, vol. 1, 135
24
Quoted in John Headley, ‘More Against Luther: On Laws and Magistrates’,
Moreana
, vol. 4 (15–16), 215–16
25
Yale, vol. 5, 280
1
Quoted in Sneyd, 77
2
John B. Gleason, 28
3
Cresacre More, 21
4
Yale, vol. 7,
Supplication of Souls
, 200
5
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 545
6
Ibid., 150
7
Yale, vol. 6, 86 and 92
8
Yale, vol. 4, 216
9
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to a Monk
, 212
10
Quoted in Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 87
11
Yale, vol. 8, 1011
12
Quoted in Charles Baudelaire,
Selected Writings on Art and Literature
(1972), 191
13
Ralph Keen and Daniel Kinney, ‘Thomas More and the Classics’,
Moreana
, vol. 22 (86), 154 and 151
14
1 Kings 15:22
15
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 276
16
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 17
17
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 278
18
Stapleton, 8
19
Cresacre More, 27
20
Quoted in Stevens, 240