Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More: Lord Chancellor of England and Martyr under Henry VIII

Biographer Thomas E. Bridgett quotes Thomas More’s impatience with pious depictions of the saints’ lives, “They have scarcely left a life of martyr or of virgin without foisting into it something untrue.” To avoid committing this himself, Bridgett collated the biographies of More from reliable resources to present the facts of More’s life and character as they appear in this volume.