Dec 17, 2025
A good part thereof used the king [Henry VIII] upon holy days when he had done his own devotions, to send for him [Thomas More] into his traverse, and there — sometimes in matters of astronomy, geometry, divinity, and such other faculties, and sometimes of his worldly affairs — to sit and confer with him. And otherwhiles, in the night would he have him up into the leads [roofs], there to consider with him the diversities, courses, motions, and operations of the stars and planets.
From The Mirror Of Virtue In Worldly Greatness, or The Life of Sir Thomas More, Knight, sometime Lord Chancellor of England written c.1550s by More's son-in-law, William Roper, first published 1626.
