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Richard Bayfield, a relapsed protestant descrubed for Sir Thomas More as ‘a dog returning to his vomit’, is burned, from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library. Public Domain.

Sir Thomas More and the Heretics

Thomas More is often thought of as a family man who died for his principles, not as a burner of books and heretics.

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