Sir Thomas More mb-code 42-48492049 holding a long scroll

holding a long scroll

shows a rainy London street

although not so readily as the European dogs

was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712

5th August 1958

Sir Thomas More mb-code 42-48492049 holding a long scroll'Sir Thomas More', 1527, (1902). Portrait of More (1478 1535) as Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor. More refused to subscribe to the Act of Supremacy which made Henry the head of the English Church. In 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and beheaded on a charge of treason the following year. Illustration from Henry VIII, by A F Pollard, published by Goupil and Co, (London, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, 1902).