EBOOK Utopia

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 that Bishop of Ely whom Richard III. sent to the   Tower; was busy afterwards in hostility to Richard; and was a chief   adviser of Henry VII., who in 1486 made him Archbishop of Canterbury, and   nine months afterwards Lord Chancellor. Cardinal Morton-of talk at   whose table there are recollections in "e;Utopia"e;-delighted in the quick   wit of young Thomas More. He once said, "e;Whoever shall live to try it,   shall see this child here waiting at table prove a notable and rare man.