The Life of Thomas More (80 page)

  1
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 294

  2
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 274

  3
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 9

  4
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 331

  5
Quoted in Maddison, Pelling and Webster, xxv

  6
Yale, vol. 12, 121

  7
Quoted in Maddison, Pelling and Webster, xvii

  8
All quotations from Erasmus,
Colloquies
, trans. Roger L’Estrange

  9
Ibid., 57–8

10
Ibid., 135

11
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 34

12
Stapleton, 11

13
Romans 3:28

14
Quoted in Jane, 49

15
D. Wilson, 2

16
Quoted in Brooks, 10

17
Erasmus,
Letters
, vol. 1, 26

18
Ibid., 20

19
Quoted in Halkin, 5

20
Ibid., 6

21
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 14

22
Quoted by Halkin, 47

23
Yale, vol. 8, 177

24
Translated by Halkin, 26

25
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 266

26
I am indebted for this suggestion to Dr David Starkey

  1
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 296

  2
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to the University of Oxford
, 132

  3
Ibid., 136

  4
Erasmus,
Adages
, 183

  5
Boswell, 52

  6
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 252

  7
Ibid., 202

  8
Boswell, 153

  9
Ibid.

10
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 425

11
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 483

12
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 166

13
Thomas a Kempis, 243

  1
Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 6

  2
Cresacre More, 29

  3
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 3, 17

  4
Stow, 392

  5
Ibid., 391

  6
Yale, vol. 4, 232

  7
Boutrais, 19

  8
Chauncey, 40

  9
Ibid., 44

10
Ibid., 45

11
Yale, vol. 8, 37

12
Thomas à Kempis, 212

13
Ibid., 287

14
Ibid., 90

15
Ibid., 249

16
Yale, vol. 4, 98

17
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 18

18
Augustine, 213

19
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to a Monk
, 302

20
Hilton,
Scale of Perfection
, 95

21
Hilton,
Minor Works
, 19

22
Ibid., 28

23
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 4

24
Augustine, 761

25
Ibid., 597

26
Pico della Mirandola
, 15, 16 and 24

27
Cresacre More, 32–2

28
Pico della Mirandola
, 11

29
Ibid.

30
Ibid., 53

31
The works of Sir Thomas More
, ed. Rastell

32
Quoted by Cassier, ‘Pico Delia Mirandola’, 38

33
Yale, vol. 9, 159

34
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 523

35
Willow, 22; Ames, 184

36
The works of Sir Thomas More
, ed. Rastell

37
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 4

38
The works of Sir Thomas More
, ed. Rastell

39
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 199

40
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More, 7

41
Ibid.

  1
Brigden, 11

  2
Yale, vol. 6, 148

  3
Quoted in Marshall, 42

  4
Ibid., 36

  5
Yale, vol. 8, 603

  6
Yale, vol. 13,
Treatise on the Passion
, 143

  7
Yale, vol. 9, 51

  8
Quoted in Sneyd, 23

  9
Surtz,
John Fisher
, 13

10
Stow, 126–7

  1
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 199

  2
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 192

  3
Ibid., 186

  4
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 6, 18

  5
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 458

  6
The Merry Wives of Windsor
, III, 3, 67–8

  7
Blench, 125

  8
Stow, 255–6

  9
Reed, ‘John Clement and his Books’

10
Quoted in Harrison, 198

11
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 422

12
Ibid., 421

13
Lucy Smith, 106–7

14
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to a Monk
, 286

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid., 288

17
Duffy, 68

18
Quoted in
Medieval English Theatre
, no. 1 (1979), 9

19
Quoted in Roston, 25

20
Quoted in Ames, 184

21
Quoted in Watney,
Account of the Mistery of Mercers
, 53

22
Lane Fox, 84

23
Unwin, 103

24
Watney,
The Hospital of Saint Thomas of Acon, 77

25
This, and other citations from the Mercer records, are to be found in
Acts of Court of the Mercers’ Company
, ed. Lyell and Watney, 329–35

26
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 462

  1
Hall, 422

  2
Duffy, ‘The Spirituality of John Fisher’, in Bradshaw and Duffy, 212

  3
Hall, 507

  4
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 450

  5
Castiglione, 299

  6
Hall, 503

  7
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 104

  8
Ibid., 106

  9
Ibid.

10
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 460

11
Erasmus,
Praise of Folly
, 4

12
John B. Gleason, 233

13
Ibid., 221

14
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 15

15
Ibid.

16
Quoted in French, 53

17
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 517–18

18
Skelton, 294

19
Ibid., 293

20
John B. Gleason, 226

21
Ibid., 232

22
Seebohm, 162

23
Ibid., 163

24
Ibid., 170

25
Owst, 244

26
Ibid., 246

27
Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 610

28
Ames, 214

29
Roskell, 295

30
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, 94

31
Yale, vol. 5, 474

32
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 20

33
Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 9

  1
Quoted in
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, vol. 2, 1

  2
Thomas Bailey, quoted in Sullivan, vol. 1, 40

  3
Quoted in Stewart,
The Life and Letters of Sir Thomas More
, 21

  4
Yale, vol. 8, 605

  5
Ibid.

  6
Quoted in Stewart,
The Life and Letters of Sir Thomas More
, 272

  7
Yale, vol. 12, 220

  8
Cresacre More, 127

  9
Yale, vol. 12, 169

10
Ibid.

11
Ibid., 277

12
Ibid., 118

13
For this and other information about Alice More, I am indebted to the pioneering research within Ruth Norrington’s
In the Shadow of a Saint: Lady Alice More

14
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 476

15
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 19

16
Ibid.

17
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 19

18
Norrington, 138–9

19
Yale, vol. 11, 217

20
Yale, vol. 12, 169

21
Yale, vol. 13,
Treatise on the Passion
, 8

22
Yale, vol. 9, 83

23
Letter to Cranevelt, quoted in
Moreana
, vol. 31 (117), 37

24
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 421

25
Owst, 388

26
Yale, vol. 5, 212

27
Quoted in Bernard Fish, ‘English Spiritual Writers’, in Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 519

28
Augustine, 873

29
R. Brown, vol. 2, 72

30
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More
, 230

31
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 121

32
Clarence H. Miller, ‘Thomas More’s Letters to Frans van Cranevelt’,
Moreana
, vol. 31 (120), 25

33
Carole Weinberg, ‘Thomas More and the Use of English in Early Tudor Education’,
Moreana
, vol. 15 (59–60), 26

34
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 577

35
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 122

36
Kenny, 18

37
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 578

38
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 280

  1
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 1, 488

  2
Ames, 186

  3
Ibid., 215

  4
Ibid., 187

  5
Cresacre More, 50

  6
Quoted in Roskell, 325

  7
Quoted in Baker, vol. 2, 80

  8
Yale, vol. 4, 38

  9
Yale, vol. 3 (1), 100

10
Yale, vol. 9, 223–4

11
Foxe, vol. 4, 199

12
Ibid.

13
Yale, vol. 6, 318

14
Ibid., 320

15
Ibid., 321

16
Ibid., 323

17
Ibid.

18
Yale, vol. 9, 126

19
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to Martin Dorp
, 12

20
Quoted in Adams, 61

21
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 256

22
Ibid., 286

23
Ibid., 600

24
Ibid., 290

25
Yale, vol. 2, 7

26
Ibid., 8

27
Ibid., 44

28
Quoted in Caxton’s preface to Higden’s
Chronicle
, 1482

29
Yale, vol. 2, 8

30
Ibid., 52

31
Ibid., 54

32
Peter Brown, 311

33
Quoted in R. E. Reiter, ‘On the Genre of Thomas More’s
Richard III’, Moreana
, vol. 7 (25), 7

34
Ibid., 30

35
Yale, vol. 2, 81

36
Ibid., 56

37
Ibid., 55

38
I am indebted for this information to Mr Nicholas Barker

39
Yale, vol. 2, 47

40
Richard III, III
, 4, 31–2

  1
Quoted in Surtz, ‘St Thomas More’, 278

  2
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 20–1

  3
Ibid.

  4
Quoted in David Waters,
The Art of Navigation in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times
(1958), 13

  5
Yale, vol. 12, 301

  6
Quoted in Ramsay, ‘A Saint in the City’, 287

  7
Erasmus,
The Education of a Christian Prince
, 215

  8
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 93

  9
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 20–1

10
Quoted by Chambers,
Thomas More
, 119

11
Yale, vol. 4, 44

12
Wegg, 68

13
Surtz, ‘St Thomas More’, 293

14
Yale, vol. 4, 52

15
Ibid., 102

16
Acts 4:32

17
Plato,
Republic
, ed. J. Burnet, 592

18
Yale, vol. 4, 112

19
Starnes, 9

20
Yale, vol. 8 (1), 938

21
See Pohl

22
Yale, vol. 4, 50

23
Ibid., 150

24
Coleridge,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
, lines 587 and 569

25
Quoted in A. F. Kinney, 2

26
Yale, vol. 4, 195

27
Cresacre More, 235

28
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 21

29
See Klibansky, R. (ed.),
Plato’s Parmenides in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(1943), 313ff

30
Introduction by Mary Louise Gill to Plato,
Parmenides
, 104 and 81

  1
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 200

  2
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 270

  3
Cavendish, 25