THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOS MORE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. W. H. HUTTON, B.D. AND TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS MDCCCXCIX MAY 9 1949 GRAHAM 823 M316h 1899 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS From Drawings by JOHN JELLICOE and HERBERT Railton. "ANON WE SIT DOWN TO REST AND TALK." Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE and HERBERT RAILTON Frontispiece TITLE-PAGE. Designed by HERBERT RAILTON MOTTO OF MARGARET MORE. SIR THOMAS MORE'S HOUSE. ERASMUS AND THE PEACOCKS. JACK AND CECY. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. MORE IN THE BARROW. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. MARGARET IN THE TREE. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. "I NOTICED ARGUS PEARCHT." Drawn by HERBERT RAILTON GAMMER GURNEY. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. MORE READING WYNKYN DE WORDE. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE and HERBERT RAILTON To face 70 THE JEW. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. 76 Dales Lich Add 21 Mar 49 Frede vii viii List of Illustrations PAGE THE CARDINAL'S PROCESSION. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. "I FELL INTO DISGRACE FOR HOLDING SPEECH WITH MERCY OVER THE Pales." 87 Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE and HERBERT RAILTON To face 110 "LORD SANDS SANG US A NEW BALLAD.” Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE and HERBERT RAILTON To face 142 "SHE COMETH HITHER FROM HEVER CASTLE." "AND SAYTH, LOW BOWING AS HE SPOKE, 'MADAM, MY LORD IS GONE.'" Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE and Herbert RailtTON To face 172 "IN COMETH A PURSUIVANT." Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE and Herbert RailTON To face 220 GILLIAN AND THE FLOUR SACKS. Drawn by JOHN JELLICOE. MORE RETURNING FROM HIS TRIAL. 237 To face 258 To face 262 "NOR LOOKT I UP TILL ANEATH THE BRIDGE-GATE.” Drawn by HErbert RailtON Introduction T is not always from the closest and most accurate historian that we receive the truest picture of an age or of a character. The artist gives a more real picture than the photographer; and it needs imagination and sympathy, as well as labour and research, to make a hero of old time live again to-day. The minutest investigation will hardly better the vivid reality of Scott's James I. or Charles II., or portray more truly than Mr. Shorthouse has done the fragile yet fascinating personality of Charles I. Yet to say this is not to ix |