1518 Joins King Henry’s service; Master of Requests (41)

1520 Field of Cloth of Gold; peace with France (43)

1521 Knighted; undertreasurer; ambassador to Bruges and Calais; cautions

Henry not to exaggerate the pope’s secular authority; Margaret marries

Roper; Buckingham executed (44)

1522 Gives public oration welcoming Emperor Charles V; serves as Henry’s

secretary and cautions against war; war with France resumed (45)

1523 Speaker of the House of Commons, proposes free speech; leases Crosby

Hall, truce with France (46)

1524 High Steward, Oxford; moves to Chelsea; war with France resumes: “If

my head could win [the King] a castle in France,…it would not fail to go.”

(47)

1525 High Steward, Cambridge; chancellor of Lancaster; Peasants’ Revolt;

peace treaty with France; Cecily marries Heron; Elizabeth marries

Dauncey (48)

1526 Appointed to royal council’s subcommittee of four; urges Erasmus to

complete writings against Luther; Turks invade Hungary; Tyndale’s New

Testament secretly distributed (49)

1527 Accompanies Wolsey to France; sack of Rome; Henry consults More about

divorce; More’s daughters’ dispute before Henry; Holbein paints the More

family (50)

1528 Tunstall asks More to defend Church in English; Margaret almost dies;

More chosen as alternate Master of Revels, Lincoln’s Inn; More’s three

great wishes (see Roper’s Life ) (51)

1529 Delegate, Peace of Cambrai; fire at Chelsea; appointed Lord Chancellor;

addresses Parliament; John marries Ann Cresacre (52)

1530 More almost dismissed for his opposition to Henry; Cranmer completes his

defense of caesaropapism (53)