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Interview Sir Thomas More

Interviewer: Sir Thomas More, could you please tell the committee, for the record where and when you where born?

Sir Thomas More: Certainly. I was born in Milk Street, London on February 7, 1478, I am the son of Sir John More, who made his living as a judge.

Could you enlighten us as to just how you were raised, so we may have a greater understanding of your present shortcomings, on the part of the king?

As I have said often, I am the kings good servant, but God's servant first. (Jokinen, 2004). I will of coarse please the committee with my humble history. I was a boy for only a short time, hardened by discipline and labor, though we lived in relative opulence with the grace of fine furnishings and a fine home (Chambers, 1958, pg. 91) the childhood is still but short in or age and I was fortunate to receive my education at St. Anthony's School in London and to page for the Archbishop Morton, who foresaw great things for me.

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I then studied at Oxford under the great Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn. During this time, I wrote comedies and studied Greek and Latin literature. One of my first works was an English translation of a Latin biography of the great Italian humanist Pico della Mirandola. You may have read it was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1510.

After this time I returned to London and studied Law, I became a barrister in 1501 but would probably, in retrospect have preferred the life of a Monk, a world I visit often, for clarity and grace. (Jokinen,2004)

I: It is widely accepted, Sir that you are a man of many talents,….....

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