A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/More, (Margaret)
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MORE (MARGARET), Daughter of Sir Thomas More.
A very learned and accomplished woman, who understood well the Latin and Greek tongues. She wrote a Treatise on the Four last Things. She married a gentleman of the name of Roper, and died in 1544. She comforted her father, during his captivity, and purchased his head of the executioner, which she preserved carefully, and it was buried with her, at St. Dunstan's church, in Canterbury.