"Thomas More's birth was noted by his father……" — Peter Ackroyd
"Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again."
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Peter Ackroyd
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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
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