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Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk    Sir Thomas More, son of
Sir John More, a justice of the King’s Bench, was born in 1478,
in Milk Street, in the city of London.  After his earlier
education at St. Anthony’s School, in Threadneedle Street, he
was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton,
Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor.  It was not
unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good
families to be so established together in a relation of patron
and client.  The youth wore his patron’s livery, and added to
his state.  The patron used, afterwards, his wealth or influence
in helping his young client forward in the world.  Cardinal
Morton had been in earlier days th