Sir Thomas More and his daughter Margaret, observing from his prison window the monks going to execution in 1535

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Sir Thomas More and his daughter Margaret, observing from his prison window the monks going to execution in 1535. Sir Thomas More, 1478 to 1535, aka Saint Thomas More. English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist, tried and executed for treason by beheading. From Illustrations of English and Scottish History published 1882.

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