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 age." Some additions have also been made to the notes in the present edition.

A beautiful reduced copy of the exquisite drawing by Holbein, in the collection of his late Majesty, has been added, as giving the most authentic idea of Sir Thomas More's person, and therefore the most appropriate accompaniment to this interesting delineation of his life and virtues.

The following minute description of his person and habits, said to be "according to the relation of those who best knew him," may be no unacceptable addition to the article in the Appendix.

"Sir Thomas More was no tall man; all the parts of his body were in good proportion, and congruous as man could wish. His skin was something white; the colour of his face drew rather to whiteness than to paleness, far from