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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2024
It is now over fifty years since my old teacher of Elocution, Father Paul Stapleton, O.P., taught me on the authority of Father Dominic Aylward, O.P., that usually the most important page of a book is the title page. For this reason let me set out the title of a book that was sent of God into my hands in the Lent of 1941:
St. Thomas More’s History of the Passion
Translated from the Latin iby his grand-daughter Mistress Mary Bassett
Edited in modern spelling with an introduction by Right Reverend Mgr. P. L. Hallett
London
Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd.
Publishers to the Holy See
* The price of the book is 6s.
1 R. W. Chambers, Thomas More , p. 24.
2 Harleian MSS., 1860.
3 The Life and Death of Sir Thomas More. By Nicholas Harpsfield; edited by E. V. Hitchcock; Introduction by R. W. Chambers, 1932, p. 83.
4 Ibid., p. xliv.
5 Pp. 3,4.
6 For More, human law was the defence of the weak against the strong. For Henry VIII, the Totalitarian, human law (i.e. the King’s will) was a defence of the strong against the weak.
7 He was tried in Westminster Hall.
8 Life of Sir Thomas More. By William Roper. The King's Classics, pp. 96-97.