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William Roper (1496–1578) Biographers: William Roper (1496–1578) Critical Editions D295. Hitchcock, Elsie Vaughan, ed. The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, Knighte. By William Roper. Early English Text Society 197. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford UP, 1935. Rpt. 1958?, 1998. Online at [Geritz F273; Sullivan 2:111. The standard edition, based on thirteen early manuscripts. Cited as "Hitchcock."] Manuscripts D296. British Library, MS Harleian 6254. [Hitchcock xi. Basis for Hitchcock edition.] D297. British Library, MS Harleian 6362. [Hitchcock xi–xii.] D298. British Library, MS Harleian 6166. [Hitchcock xii–xiii.] D299. British Library, MS Additional 11388. [Hitchcock xiii.] D300. British Library, MS Additional 4242. [Hitchcock xiv. Imperfect MS, end of MS fols. 39– 43 contained in MS Additional 4474. leaf between fol. 38 and 39 missing.] D301. British Library, MS Additional 4474. [Hitchcock xiv. Contains end of MS Additional 4242. See above.] D302. British Library, MS Sloane 1705. [Hitchcock xiv–xv.] D303. Manuscript in the possession (in 1935) of Rt. Hon. John Burns, [MS J] [Hitchcock xv– xvi. Used for Hearne's 1716 edition.] D304. Manuscript in the possession (in 1935) of Rt. Hon. John Burns, [MS B] [Hitchcock xvi. Second Burns manuscript.] D305. Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. IV. 21. [Hitchcock xvi–xvii.] D306. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, MS Dyce 46. [Hitchcock xvii–xviii.] D307. Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 966. [Hitchcock xviii.] D308. Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Willis 58. [Hitchcock xviii–xix.] D309. Brussels, Bollandist Library MS 544. [Hitchcock xix–xx.] Eight Additional MSS from Beal I/2: 348 and CW 1: cxviii–cxix. D310. Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Corpus Christi College 318. D311. Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 7958. D312. University of London, Sterling Library, MS S L. V 21. D313. Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn b 10. D314. Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn a 25. D315. Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 363. D316. Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS 875. D317. National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 33. 7. 16. MSS Copies and Adaptations D318. Oxford Bodleian MS Rawlinson D 787. [Hitchcock xxvi. Transcription by John Lewis of MS used for his edition.] D319. British Library MS Harleian 7030. [Hitchcock p.2. Copy by Thomas Baker of Cambridge University Library MS Mm. IV. 21.] D320. Eton MS 167. [Hitchcock p.2. Dialogue in third person.] D321. MS in possession (in 1935) of Mr. W. Fagg, London. [Hitchcock p.2. Dialogue in third person.] Early Editions D322. Roper, William. The Mirrour of vertue in worldly greatnes or The Life of Syr Thomas More Knight, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England. At Paris [i.e. Saint-Omer: Printed at the English College Press], M.DC.XXVI [1626] Facsimile Rpt. The Lyf of Syr Thomas More.1626. English Recusant Literature 1558–1640, Vol. 4. Menston: Scolar P, 1970. TCP transcription available online at http://tei.it.ox.ac.uk/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A11/A11051.html [STC 21316; ESTC S116166; Gibson 117 + Smith 1981:44–45; ARCR II:688; Hitchcock xxv–xxvi; Geritz F275.] D323. Hearne, Thomas, ed, Guilielmi Roperi vita D. Thomae Mori equitis aurati, lingua anglicana contexta. Accedunt, Mori Epistola de scholasticis quibusdam Trojanos sese appellantibus; Academiae Oxoniensis Epistolae et Orationes aliquammultae; Anonymi Chronicon Godstovianum; et Fenestrarum depictarum Ecclesiae Parochialis de Fairford in agro Glocestriensi Explicatio. E codicibus vetustis descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, A.M. Oxoniensis, Qui et Notas subjecit. [Oxford] : Veneunt apud editorem. A.D., MDCCXVI. [1716] 1–58. [ESTC T133604; Gibson 118 + Smith 1981:46 + 1988:139; Hitchcock xxvi; Sullivan 2:96. According to Hitchcock, based on Burns MS J. Includes Epistle to Oxford (59–67).] D324. Lewis, John, ed. The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore, Knt. Lord High-Chancellor Of England, In the Reign of K. Henry the Viiith. Written by William Rooper, Esq; Prothonotary of the King's-Bench. To which are added from Sir Thomas's English works some letters of his, &c. referred to in the account of his life. London: printed for Thomas Page and William Mount, on Tower-Hill; William Innys, at the West-End of St. Pauls; John Osborn and Thomas Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1728. [ESTC N20566; Not in Gibson; See Smith 1981:45; Hitchcock xxvi. Based on a manuscript leant to Lewis, who transcribed it in Bodleian MS Rawlinson D 787.] D325. Lewis, John, ed. The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore, . Written by William Rooper, . To which are added from Sir Thomas's English works some letters . London: Printed for Thomas Page and William Mount, on Tower-Hill; John Osborn and Thomas Longman in Pater-Noster-Row, 1729. [ESTC T133606; Gibson 119 + Smith 1981:45; Hitchcock xxvi. Title page same as 1728 except for date.] D326. Lewis, John, ed. The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore Kt., Lord High-Chancellor Of England, Written by William Rooper, Esq; Prothonotary of the King's-Bench. To which is added, some original letters referred to in the account of his life. London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXXI [1731]. Available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=Qx86AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP25 [ESTC T133605; Gibson 120 + Smith 1981:45. A Reissue of 1728/29.] D327. Lewis, John, and Thomas Bailey, eds. The lives and deaths, of Sir Thomas More, knt. lord high chancellor of England. And of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester: who were both beheaded in the reign of H. VIII. Comprising the highest and hidden transactions of church and state, in the reign of K. Henry the Eighth; with divers moral, historical, and political animadversions upon Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and Martin Luther; with a full relation of Queen Catharine's divorce, and the will of Henry the VIIIth. The authors, Thomas [William] Roper, Esq; prothonotary of the King's Bench, and Thomas Bailey, D.D. To which are added, some original letters, refer'd to in the work. Dublin: Printed for P. Lord, bookseller, in Cook- Street. And Rich. Fitzsimons, bookseller, in High-Street, MDCCLXV. [1765] [ESTC T173527. Includes Bailey's Life of Fisher. Shared Sixth edition (of Bailey) with T119035. See Fisher: The First Life.] D328. Lewis, John, and Thomas Bailey, eds. The lives and deaths, of Sir Thomas More, . and of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester: who were both beheaded in the reign of H. VIII. The authors, Thomas Roper, . and Thomas Bailey, D.D. To which are added, some original letters, . Dublin: printed for P. Lord, R. Fitzsimons, and D. Kylly, 1765. [ESTC T119035. Includes Bailey's Life of Fisher. Shared Sixth edition (of Bailey) with T173527.] D329. Singer, Samuel Weller, ed. The Life of Sir Thomas More by his Son in Law William Roper. With notes and an appendix of Letters. Chiswick: from the press of C. Whittingham for R. Triphook, 1817, Rev. 1822. Available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=8CEJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1 [Worldcat OCLC 614329799, etc.; Hitchcock xxvi–xxvii.] D330. Lewis, John and Thomas Bailey, eds. The Lives and Deaths of the illustrious Sir Thomas More . by Thomas [or rather, William Roper] and of . John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, by T. Bailey [or rather, R. Hall] . With a full relation of Queen Catharine's divorce and the will of Henry VIII. The seventh edition. Dublin: C. M. Warren, 1835. [Worldcat OCLC 504747668 and 15325189. See ESTC T173527 and T119035 (both 1765) for shared sixth editions. The seventh [Eighth] edition of Bailey.] D331. Lumby, J. R., ed. The Life of Sir Thomas More. By William Roper. More's Utopia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP (Pitt Press Series), 1879. v–lvi. Rpt. 1880, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1894, 1897, 1902, 1908, 1913, 1922, 1935, 1940, 1952, 1956. 1879 Available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=8ZEDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ; 1922 available online at http://www.archive.org/details/utopia__00moreuoft ; 1956 available online at http://www.archive.org/details/utopiamore200moreuoft [Rpt. of Hearne's 1716 edition.] D332. Adams, Maurice, ed. "The Life of Sir Thomas More." The "Utopia" and the History of Edward V. With Roper's Life. The Scott Library. London: Simmons, 1882–3; etc.; London: W. Scott, 1890. 3–61. Available online at http://www.archive.org/details/theutopiaandtheh00moreuoft[Sullivan I:5.] D333. The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes or the Life of Sir Thomas More Knight. By William Roper. The King's Library. The De La More Press Folios 1. London: Alexander Moring (The De La More Press), 1902, rpt. 1903. 5–102. Available online at http://www.archive.org/details/mirrourvertuein00moregoog [Also contains some of More's Prison Letters.] D334. Walton, Joseph, Foreward. Life of Sir Thomas More, Knt. London: Burns and Oates; St. Louis: Herder, 1905. Available online at http://www.archive.org/details/lifeofsirthomasm00ropeuoft[Reprint of Singer's 1817 Edition.] D335. Manning, Anne. The Household of Sir Thomas More. With Roper's Life of More. (1906–1938) see Novels About More: Anne Manning. D336. Roper, William. The mirrour of vertue in worldly greatnes, or, The life of Sir Thomas More, Knight. The King's classics. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. D337. Eliot, C. W., ed. The Life of Sir Thomas More. By William Roper. Machiavelli, More, Luther. Vol. 36 of The Harvard Classics. 50 vols. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910. 36: 89–134. [Modern spelling version.] D338. Sampson, George, ed. "The Lyfe of Sir Thomas More Knighte." The Utopia of Sir Thomas More. Ralph Robinson's translation, with Roper's life and some of his letters . to which is added the Latin text of Utopia, reprinted from the first edition. Introduction and bibliography A. C. Guthkelch. Bohn's Popular Library. London: G. Bell and sons, 1910. 1914. 201–271. [Hitchcock xxvii–xxviii.] D339. Clark, Barrett, H., ed.
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