King's Confidante

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I WISH gratefully to acknowledge the guidance I have received from the undermentioned books:

History of England, William Hickman Smith Aubrey

Life of Sir Thomas More, William Roper

Thomas More, R. W Chambers

Life of Wolsey, Cavendish

Utopia, Sir Thomas More

A Dialogue of Comfort, Sir Thomas More

The Latin Epigrams of Thomas More, edited with Translations and Notes by Leicester Bradner and Charles Arthur Lynch

England in Tudor Times, L. F. Salzman, M.A., F.S.A.

British History, John Wade

Lives of the Queens of England, Agnes Strickland

Old and New London, Walter Thornbury

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, James Anthony Froude

Wolsey (Great Lives), Ashley Sampson

Early Tudor Drama, A. W Reed, M.A., D.Lit.

J.P.

AND WHO IS THIS MAN WHO DARES OPPOSE US?” DEMANDED the King. “Who is this Thomas More? Eh? Answer me that.”

The King was angry. He sat very straight in the royal chair, one slender hand lying on the purple velvet which covered the table, the other stroking the ermine which covered his mantle. He was battling to subdue his rage, to preserve his habitual calm; for he was a shrewd man and his life had taught him that unheated words were more effective than the sword.

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