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  4
Skelton, 320 and 312

  5
R. Brown, vol. 1, 110

  6
Ibid., 111

  7
Ibid., 267–8

  8
Watney,
The Hospital of Saint Thomas of Acon
, 97

  9
Ibid., 98

10
Yale, vol. 12, 213

11
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 331

12
Stow, 422

13
I am indebted for this information to Dr David Starkey, particularly his ‘Court, Council and Nobility in Tudor England’ and ‘Communications: A Reply’

14
J. A. Guy, ‘The Privy Council: Revolution or Evolution?’, in Coleman and Starkey, 66

15
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 317

16
Ibid., 430

17
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 86

18
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 504

19
Watney,
The Hospital of Saint Thomas of Acon
, 87

20
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 2, 414

21
Ibid., 259

22
Hamilton, vol. 1, 10–11

23
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 3, 46

24
R. Brown, vol. 2, 113

25
Quoted in C. H. Williams, 217

26
Vergil, Book XXIV, 9

27
Pickthorn, vol. 2, 38

28
Ibid., 40

29
Quoted in Brigden, 130

30
Boswell, 285

31
Shakespeare, 891–2

32
R. Brown, vol. 2, 75

33
Ibid.

34
Ramsay, 286

35
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 101–10

36
I am indebted for this insight to Trapp, 68

37
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 300

38
Ibid., 298

39
Erikson, 215

40
Quoted in Luther, 19ff.

41
Sullivan, vol. 2, 251

42
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 3, 286

43
I am indebted for this information to the researches of Dr David Starkey

44
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 3, 111

45
Yale, vol. 8, 591

46
Starkey, ‘Court, Council and Nobility’, 183

47
Ibid.

48
Wegg, 130

49
Ibid., 130–1

50
Erasmus,
Praise of Folly
, 142

XVIII: He Sat upon a Throne of Gold

  1
R. Brown, vol. 1, 85–6

  2
Ibid., 91

  3
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 209

  4
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 111

  5
R. Brown, vol. 2, 312

  6
Hall, vol. 1, 319

  7
Quoted in Anglo, 108

  8
Quoted by Schoeck in Sylvester, 36

  9
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 221

10
Cavendish, 184

11
Ibid., 183

12
I am indebted for this information to the researches of Dr David Starkey

13
Horrox, 255

14
John Husee quoted in Miller, 79

15
Erasmus,
Praise of Folly
, 141

16
Quoted in Ives,
Faction in Tudor England
, 3

17
Quoted in Ives,
Anne Boleyn
, 25

18
Castiglione, 35–6

19
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 201–2

20
Ibid.

21
Yale, vol. 7,
Letter Against Frith
, 111–12

22
Yale, vol. 12, 220

23
Castiglione, 178

24
Gairdner,
Letters and Papers
, vol. 3, 2636

25
Castiglione, 138

26
Wyatt,
Collected Poems
, 101–2

27
Ibid., 21

28
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, 84

29
Ibid.

30
Ibid., 87

XIX: My Poor Mind

  1
Yale, vol. 12, 169

  2
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 371

  3
Ibid., 287 and 285

  4
Ibid., 157

  5
Ibid., 160

  6
Ibid., 142

  7
Ibid., 393

  8
Ibid., 278

  9
Ibid., 299

10
Ibid., 366

11
Ibid., 280

12
Ibid., 281

13
Ibid., 158

14
Ibid., 289

15
Ibid., 285

16
Ibid., 312–14

17
Ibid., 253

18
R. Brown, vol. 2, 215–16

19
Quoted in Gwyn, 415

20
Guy,
The Cardinal’s Court
, 44

21
Yale, vol. 9, 104

22
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 3, 547

23
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to the University of Oxford
, 138

24
Ibid., 145

25
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 3, 547

26
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to a Monk
, 270

27
Ibid., 294 and 302

28
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 494

29
Ibid., 648

30
Ibid., 644

31
Ibid., 628

32
Yale, vol. 8, 191

33
Quoted in de la Bère, 23–4

34
Ibid., 21

35
Ibid., 26

36
Quoted in Axton and Happe, 124

37
Ibid., 76

XX: Eques auratus

  1
Quoted in H. Meulon, ‘Une Intaille Antique’,
Moreana
, vol. 3 (10), 7

  2
I am indebted for the details here to Sydney Anglo’s account in
Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy

  3
Ibid., 140

  4
Ibid., 146

  5
Ibid., 154

  6
Quoted in G. R. Elton, ‘Thomas More, Councillor’, in Sylvester,
Saint Thomas More
, 121

  7
Yale, vol. 15, Introduction to
Letter to Martin Dorp
, xxxvi

  8
Quoted in Yale, vol. 5, 799. A footnote in a commentary by J. M. Headley

  9
Yale, vol. 3 (2), 186

10
Quoted in H. Schulte-Herbrüggen, ‘Three Additions to Thomas More’s Correspondence’,
Moreana
, vol. 20 (79–80), 37

11
Quoted in Routh, 108

12
Quoted in
Moreana
, vol. 20 (79–80), 38

13
Chaucer,
General Prologue
, line 46

14
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, 73

15
Ibid., 86

16
Ibid.

17
Yale, vol. 2, 76

18
Quoted in Ames, 56

19
Quoted in G. R. Elton, ‘Thomas More, Councillor’, in Sylvester,
Saint Thomas More
, 104

20
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 248

21
Quoted in Routh, 112–13

22
Yale, vol. 12, 88

23
Yale, vol. 8, 900

24
Ibid., 815

25
Ibid., 816

26
Quoted in Bridgett, 190

27
Ro: Ba., 110

28
Hamilton, 13

29
Ames, 56

30
Chambers,
Thomas More
, 198

XXI: I Am Like Ripe Shit

  1
Quoted in Erikson, 87

  2
Quoted in Ackroyd, 149

  3
Quoted in Erikson, 140

  4
Quoted in Gwyn, 481

  5
Quoted in Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, 112

  6
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 235

  7
Macnamara, 29

  8
Quoted in Yale, vol. 5, 310

  9
Francis Atterbury, quoted in Sullivan, vol. 1, 33

10
Ibid.

11
Quoted in Yale, vol. 5, 770

12
Ibid., 482, 484, 514 and 516

13
Ibid., 2

14
Quoted in Luther, 150

15
Yale, vol. 5, 118

16
Luther, 572

17
Yale, vol. 5, 50

18
Ibid., 166

19
Ibid., 130 and 332

20
Quoted in Erikson, 200

21
Ibid., 238

22
Yale, vol. 5, 418

23
Erikson, 198

24
Yale, vol. 5, 430

25
Harpsfield, 86

26
Ibid., 87

27
The English Works of Sir Thomas More, 72

28
Quoted in Owst, 534

29
The English Works of Sir Thomas More, 77

30
Ibid., 76

31
Ibid., 84

32
Ibid., 90

33
Ibid., 85–6

34
Yale, vol. 5, 438

35
Yale, vol. 9, 133

36
Quoted in
The English Works of Sir Thomas More
, 97

37
Yale, vol. 14, 127

38
From Rastell,
The Four Elements

39
Quoted in W. H. Hutton, 45

40
Erikson, 245

XXII: Long Persuading and Privy Labouring

  1
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 204

  2
Ibid., 205

  3
Quoted in Ridley, 144

  4
Quoted in Pickthorn, vol. 2, 60, n. 3

  5
Ibid., 62

  6
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 206

  7
Ibid., 207

  8
C. H. Williams, 141

  9
Ibid.

10
Ibid.

11
Roskell, 329

12
Ibid., 330

13
Merriman, vol. 1, 313

14
Roper, ed. Sylvester and Harding, 207

15
Foss, 212

16
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 278

17
G. Marc’hadour, ‘1966 remembers 1466’,
Moreana
, vol. 3 (12), 108

18
Stow, 186

19
Yale, vol. 2, 44

20
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 307

21
Roper, ed. Hitchcock, 22

22
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 4, 267

23
Quoted in Guy,
The Cardinal’s Court
, 45

24
Miller, 20

25
Bridgett, 178

26
Quoted in Pickthorn, vol. 2, 19

27
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 5, 576

28
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 289

29
Ibid., 300

30
Ibid., 294

31
Ibid.

32
Ibid., 518

33
Ibid.

34
Ibid., 300

35
Clarence H. Miller, ‘Thomas More’s Letters to Frans van Cranevelt’,
Moreana
, vol. 31 (120), 36

36
Quoted in Chambers,
Thomas More
, 210

37
Quoted in Somerville, 7–8

38
Gwyn, 195

39
Fishwick, 174

40
Ibid., 138

41
Ibid., 145

42
Quoted in Margaret Hastings, ‘Sir Thomas More: Maker of English Law?’, in Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 113

43
Guy,
Public Career
, 29

44
Hastings, in Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 110

45
Reed,
Early Tudor Drama
, 172

46
Quoted in Pineas,
Thomas More and Tudor Polemics
, 29

47
Quoted in Sturge, 132

48
Yale, vol. 7,
Letter to Bugenhagen
, 40

49
Ibid., 22

50
Ibid., 74

51
Hazlitt, 71

52
Ibid., 66

53
Ibid., 75

54
Ibid., 80

55
Ibid., 75

XXIII: Thy Foolish Face

  1
Erasmus,
Epistolae
, vol. 6, 443

  2
R. A. Sisson, ‘The Treasures of Time’, Chelsea Old Church pamphlet, 1968

  3
Kenny, 44

  4
Thomas à Kempis, 78

  5
Yale, vol. 12, 164

  6
Ibid., 165

  7
Matthew 10:36

  8
Quoted in Hollis, 48

  9
Ibid.

10
Harpsfield, 68

11
Yale, vol. 12, 187

12
Cresacre More, 42

13
Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 518

14
Ibid., 519

15
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More
, 422

16
Ibid., 423

17
Ibid.

18
Ibid.

19
Pollard, in Sylvester and Marc’hadour, 424

20
Ibid.

21
Quoted by Frank Carpinelli in Moore, 8

22
Baker, vol. 1, 56

23
Ro: Ba., 129

24
Ibid.

25
Cresacre More, 50

26
Ibid., 124

27
Quoted in Chambers,
Thomas More
, 183

28
Cresacre More, 43

29
Yale, vol. 12, 182

30
Ro: Ba., 55

31
Welsford, 167

32
1 Corinthians 3:19

33
Yale, vol. 15,
Letter to a Monk
, 289

34
Quoted in Walter, 372

35
Quoted in Welsford, 398

36
Erasmus,
Colloquies
, 78

37
Yale, vol. 11, 206

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