Folger Shakespeare Library
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Bollandist Library, Brussels

  • MS 544

    Copy, in two hands, 87 quarto leaves (including blanks), in modern leather.

    c.1600.

    Inscribed (f. 9r) Tho Bushell: i.e. presumably Thomas Bushell (before 1600-1674), mining entrepreneur, mint master, and protégé of Francis Bacon. Owned in 1866 by Edmund Waterton, FSA (1830-87), of Walton, Yorkshire, allegedly a descendant of Sir Thomas More.

    This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, pp. xix-xx.

    • MrT 88
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

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