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ry the Eighth were one and the same person, but that, in that business of putting personalities into pigeon-holes according to reigns, Thomas More belonged to the reign of Henry the Eighth.
Grant lay looking at the pool of light that his lamp threw on the ceiling, and reckoned. If Thomas More was Henry VIII's Chancellor, then he must have lived through the whole of Henry VII's long reign as well as Richard III's. There was something wrong somewhere. -
He reached for More's History of Richard Ill. It had as preface a short life of More which he had not bothered to read. Now he turned to it to find out how More could have been both Richard III's historian and Henry VIIrs Chancellor. How old was More when Richard succeeded?
He was five.
When that dramatic council scene had. taken place at the Tower, Thomas More had been five years old. He had been only eight when Richard died at Bosworth.
Everything in that history had been hearsay.
And if there was-one word that a policeman loathed more than another it was hearsay. Especially when applied to evidence.
He was so disgusted that he flung the precious book on to the floor before he remembered that it was the property of a Public Library and his only by grace and for fourteen days.
More had never known Richard III at all. He had indeed grown up under a Tudor administration That book was the Bible of the whole historical world on the subject of Richard III ? it was from that account that Holinshed had. taken his material, and from that that Shakespeare had written his - and except that More believed what he wrote to be true it was of no more value than what the soldier said. It was what his cousin Laura called 'sno
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