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IV.—The Lineage of Sir Thomas More. By Edward Foss, F.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Edward Foss
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It cannot have escaped the observation of every person interested in the life of Sir Thomas More, that his biographers, though one of them married his daughter, and another was his great-grandson, are almost entirely silent as to the family from which he sprung. In their statements upon this subject, they ascend no higher than Sir Thomas's father, Sir John More; he being no less a person than one of the superior judges; holding that dignity, too, for a space of at least twelve years, and not dying till after his son had been elevated to the highest legal position in the kingdom.

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Archaeologia , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 1853 , pp. 27 - 33
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1853

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page 29 note a Dugdale's Orig. 250.

page 29 note b His admission is thus entered in the Black Book, vol. i. fo. 162: “Joh'es More admissus est in Societatem Termino Michaelis A0 xlix0 Henr. VIti, et ei perdonantur vacationes due et quod sit ad repasta et habeat unum clericum pro xiiijd per septimanam, eo quod tam in officio pincerne, quam in officio seneschalli, que quidem officia in eodem hospicio diu continuavit, bene et fideliter se gessit, et vadia nulla de societate recepit de tempore quo officium seneschalli occupavit. Et assignatur in camera nuper Thome Ripplyngham.”

page 30 note a Dugdale's Orig. 215.

page 32 note a Dugdale's Orig. 248.