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The English Correspondence of Sir Thomas More The English Correspondence of Sir Thomas More The letter and line numbers correspond to the 1947 Rogers edition (Princeton UP). The English spellings have been standardized for this edition and its concordance by Andrea Frank. A complete concordance to this work can be found at www.thomasmorestudies.org/publications.html#Concordance. ©CTMS 2014 Thomas More’s English letters, following 1947 Rogers numbering [4] To Sister Joyce Leigh. <London, c. 1 January 1505> …………………………… 3 [11] To the Council, from Tunstall, Sampson, More. Bruges, 9 July 1515………….... 4 [12] To <Henry VIII>, from Tunstall, More, Clyfford. Bruges, 21 July 1515............. 5 [13] To Wolsey, from Knight, More, Wilsher, Sampson,…. Bruges, 1 Oct 1515......... 6 [49] To Wolsey & Council, from Wingfield, Knight, More. Calais, 13 Oct <1517>...... 6 [51] To Wolsey & Council, from Wingfield, Knight, More. <Calais? c. Oct 1517>…... 7 [53] To <Wolsey>, from Wingfield, Knight, More. Calais, 4 <Nov>ember <1517>.... 9 [77] To Wolsey. Woking, 5 July <1519>.......................................................... 10 [78] To Wolsey. Woking, 6 July <1519>.......................................................... 11 [79] To Wolsey. Woking, 9 July <1519>.......................................................... 12 [98] To Wolsey, from Knight, More, Wilsher, Sampson. Bruges, 15 Sept <1520>........ 13 [100] To the Deputy Chamberlains of the Exchequer. <c. May 1521>....................... 15 [109] To Wolsey. Newhall, 14 September <1522> ............................................. 15 [110] To Wolsey. Newhall, 21 September <1522> ............................................. 17 [115] To Wolsey. Easthampstead, 26 August <1523> .......................................... 19 [116] To Wolsey. Woking, 1 September <1523>................................................ 22 [117] To Wolsey. Woking, 1 September <1523>................................................ 23 [118] To Wolsey. Woking, 3 September <1523>................................................ 25 [119] To Wolsey. Woking, 5 September <1523>................................................ 25 [120] To Wolsey. Woking, 12 September <1523>.............................................. 26 [121] To Wolsey. Guildford, 13 September <1523>............................................ 27 [122] To Wolsey. Easthampstead, 17 September <1523>...................................... 29 [123] To Wolsey. Abingdon, 20 September <1523>............................................ 30 [124] To Wolsey. Woodstock, 22 September <1523>.......................................... 36 [125] To Wolsey. Woodstock, 24 September <1523>.......................................... 37 [126] To Wolsey. Woodstock, 26 September <1523>.......................................... 38 [127] To Wolsey. Woodstock, 30 October <1523>............................................. 39 [136] To Wolsey. Hertford, 29 November <1524>............................................. 40 [145] To Wolsey. Stony Stratford, 21 September <1526>...................................... 43 [150] To the University of Oxford. Richmond, 11 March <1527>........................... 44 [161] To Wolsey. Windsor, 16 March <1528>.................................................. 45 [170] To Henry VIII, from Tunstall, Hacket, <More>. <Cambray, 2 Aug 1529>…….. 48 [171] To Henry VIII, from Tunstall, More, Hacket. Cambray, <c.4> Aug <1529>…… 55 [172] To Henry VIII, from Tunstall, More, Hacket. Cambray, 5 August 1529.............. 58 2 [173] To Henry VIII, from Tunstall, More, Hacket. Cambray, 10 Aug 1529................ 60 [174] To Lady More. Woodstock, 3 September <1529>........................................ 61 [182] To Sir John Arundell. Chelsea, 5 April <1530>........................................... 62 [190] To John Frith. Chelsea, 7 December <1532>.............................................. 63 [192] To Elizabeth Barton. Chelsea, Tuesday <1533?> ......................................... 85 [194] To Thomas Cromwell. Chelsea, 1 February <1533/4>.................................. 86 [195] To Thomas Cromwell. Chelsea, Saturday, <Feb-March> 1533/4..................... 88 [197] To Thomas Cromwell. <March? 1534>.................................................... 89 [198] To Henry VIII. Chelsea, 5 March <1534>.................................................. 96 [199] To Thomas Cromwell. Chelsea, 5 March <1534>......................................... 99 [200] To Margaret Roper. <Tower of London, c. 17 April 1534> ............................ 106 [201] To Margaret Roper. Tower of London, <April-May? 1534>............................ 111 [202] To Margaret Roper. Tower of London, <May? 1534> ................................... 112 [203] From Margaret Roper. <May? 1534>........................................................ 113 [204] To All His Friends. Tower of London, <1534> ........................................... 114 [205] Alice Alington to Margaret Roper. 17 August <1534>................................... 115 [206] Margaret Roper to Alice Alington. <August 1534>....................................... 117 [207] To Dr. Nicholas Wilson. Tower of London, 1534......................................... 133 [208] To Dr. Nicholas Wilson. Tower of London, 1534......................................... 134 [209] From Margaret Roper. 1534................................................................... 139 [210] To Margaret Roper. Tower of London, 1534............................................... 140 [211] To Margaret Roper. Tower of London, 1534............................................... 144 [212] Lady More to Henry VIII. <c. Christmas 1534>........................................... 147 [213] To Master Leder. Tower of London, Saturday, 16 January 1534/3..................... 148 [214] To Margaret Roper. Tower of London, 2 or 3 May 1535................................. 150 [215] Lady More to Thomas Cromwell. May 1535................................................ 153 [216] To Margaret Roper. <Tower of London, 3 June 1535> ................................. 154 [217] To Antonio Bonvisi. Tower of London, 1535............................................... 158 [218] To Margaret Roper. Tower of London, 5 July 1535....................................... 160 3 4. To Joyce Leigh, <London, c. 1 January 1505> 4. To Joyce Leigh Unto his right entirely beloved sister in Christ, Joyce Leigh, Thomas More greeting in our Lord. It is, and of long time hath been, my well beloved sister, a custom in the beginning of the New Year friends to send between presents or gifts as the witnesses of their love and friendship and also signifying that they desire each to other that year a good continuance and prosperous end of that 5 lucky beginning. But commonly, all those presents that are used customably all in this manner between friends to be sent be such things as pertain only unto the body, either to be fed or to be clad or some otherwise delighted, by which it seemeth that their friendship is but fleshly and stretcheth in manner to 10 the body only. But forasmuch as the love and amity of Christian folk should be rather ghostly friendship than bodily, since that all faithful people are rather spiritual than carnal. For as the apostle saith we be not now in flesh but in spirit if Christ abide in us. 15 I therefore, mine heartily beloved sister, in good luck of this new year have sent you such a present, as may bear witness of my tender love and zeal to the happy continuance and gracious increase of virtue in your soul; and whereas the gifts of other folk declare that they wisheth their friends to be worldly 20 fortunate, mine testifieth that I desire to have you godly prosperous. % These works more profitable that large were made in Latin by one John Picus, Earl of Mirandola, a lordship in Italy of whose cunning and virtue we need hear nothing to speak forasmuch 25 as hereafter we peruse the course of his holy life rather after our little power slenderly, than after his merits sufficiently. The works are such, that truly, good sister, I suppose of the quantity there cometh none in your hand more profitable, neither to the achieving of temperance in prosperity, nor to the 30 purchasing of patience in adversity, nor to the despising of worldly vanity, nor to the desiring of heavenly felicity, which works I would require you gladly to receive, nay were it that they be such that for the goodly matter (howsoever they be translated) may delight and please any person that hath any 35 mean desire and love to God. And that yourself is such one 4 as for your virtue and fervent zeal to God cannot but joyously 4. To Joyce Leigh receive anything that meanly soundeth either to the reproach of vice, commendation of virtue or honor and laude of God, who preserve you. 40 11. Tunstall, Sampson, More to the Council. Bruges, 9 July 1515 Liketh it your good lordships to understand, that as touching the state of our business here, forasmuch as we doubt not but that our letters, in which we have written thereof at large to the King's Grace, shall by his Highness come to your hands, we therefore trouble not at this time your good lordships 5 with the repetitions of the same, but the only cause of our present writing to your good lordships is to beseech the same to have us so in your favorable remembrance, that we may have by the means of your good lordships more money sent unto us. For as your lordships well remember of 60 days, for which we received 10 our money before the hand, and spent also a good part thereof before the hand, there be naught remaining
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