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  • by Douglas Linder (c) 2006

  • More's Farewell
    "I die the king's  good servant, and God's first."--Thomas More

    There is much to learn from the story of how the head of one of the most revered men in England, Sir Thomas More, ended up on the chopping block on London's Tower Hill in 1535.  Few people in history have faced their trials and deaths as squarely, calmly, and with as much integrity as did More.

    More's road from his post as Lord Chancellor of England to the Tower of London owes its course to a Bible passage, a marriage of a long-dead prince, and the consuming desire of King Henry VIII to marry Anne
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