TRIAL OF SIR THOMAS
MORE: Letter to Margaret Roper
(July 5, 1535) This letter , written in coal at the Tower of London on the day before his execution, was the last writing of Thomas More. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like special well Dorothy Colly, I pray you be
good unto her. I would wit whether this be she that you wrote me of. If not, I pray you be good to
the other as you may in her affliction, and to
my good daughter Joan Aleyn to give her I pray you some kind answer,
for she
sued hither to me this day to pray you be good to her. I cumber you, good Margaret, much, but I would be
sorry, if it should be any longer than tomorrow, for it is Saint
Thomas' Even
and the Vtas of Saint Peter and therefore tomorrow long I to go to God,
it were
a day very meet and convenient for me. I never liked your manner
toward me
better than when you
kissed me last for I love when daughterly
love and dear charity hath not leisure to look to worldly courtesy. Fare well my dear child and pray for me, and I
shall for you and all your friends that we may merrily meet in heaven.
I thank
you for your great cost. I send
now unto my good daughter Clement her algorism stone and I send her and
my good
son and all hers God's blessing and mine. I pray you at time convenient recommend me to my
good son John More. I liked well his natural fashion. Our Lord bless
him and
his good wife my loving daughter, to whom I pray him be good, as he
hath great
cause, and that if the land of mine come to his hand, he break not my
will
concerning his sister Daunce. And our Lord bless Thomas and Austin and
all that
they shall have. |