Gulielmo Lilio, _Pauliæ Scholæ olim Præceptori primario, &_
Agnetæ _Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc a
tergo nunc destructo consepultis_; Georgius Lilius, _hujus
Ecclesiæ Canonicus, Parentum Memoriæ pie consulens, Tabellam hanc
ab amicis conservatam, hic reponendam curavit._

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_Sir THOMAS MORE_.


Sir _Thomas More_, a great Credit and Ornament in his Time, of the
_English_ Nation, and with whom the Learned'st Foreigners of that Age,
were proud to have correspondence, for his wit and excellent parts, was
born in _Milk-street_, London. _Anno Dom._ 1480. Son to Sir _John
More_, Knight, and one of the Justices of the _Kings Bench_.

He was bred first in the Family of Archbishop _Morton_, then in
_Canterbury_-Colledge in _Oxford_; afterwards removed to an Inn of
_Chancery_ in _London_, called _New-Inn_, and from thence to
_Lincolns-Inn_; where he became a double Reader. Next, his Worth
preferred him to be Judge in the Sheriff of _London's_, Court, though
at the same time a Pleader in others; and so upright was he therein,
that he never undertook any Cause but what appeared just to his
Conscience, nor never took Fee of Widow, Orphan, or poor Person.