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The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family One of the activities that was thought proper for literate women was the translation of devotional literature into English to make it more readily available for the improvement of the minds of other Englishwomen. [Margaret Roper] …..corresponded with the great humanist and friend of the family, Erasmus, who considered her the "ornament of Britain." Her published work was a translation of a work by Erasmus, A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster 487 ; in one of her father's letters there is mention of poems she had written, but they have not survived She was her father’s favourite and very close to him. It is said that she paid to be able to remove his head from the spike shortly after his execution and preserved it with spices until her own death 488 . William Roper was an ardent catholic to the last and he died 4 January 1578, his line ended in the late 17 th century with his descendent Elizabeth Roper who was married to Edward Henshaw 489 There are no images of Ellen Roper, but Margaret can be seen a series of paintings that starts with Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1533 painting “Thomas More and his family “, which was destroyed in the eighteenth century. Luckily, however, Rowland Lockey 490 had made a copy and he http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/translators.html#fn_p aternoster accessed March 5 th 2010 487 The full title of which was “A Deuoute Treatise vpon the Pater Noster, Made Fyrst in Latyn by the Moost Famous Doctour Mayster Erasmus Roterodamus, and Tourned in to Englisshe by a Yong Vertuous and Well Lerned Gentylwoman of .XIX. Yere of Age.” Published in London:by Thomas Berthelet, c1524 488 DNB vol XIII p886 states that “Stapleton says”. Stapleton was the third biographer of Sir Thomas More and included More’s life in his Three Thomases (1588) 489 DNB ibid p216 490 http://www.intofineart.com/htmlindexfind/directory-l001.html 122
The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family used this as the basis of his 1594 painting “Sir Thomas More and his Family which is held in the Victoria & Albert Museum London Fig. 28 Sir Thomas More and family (1594) by Rowland Lockey (1565-1616) 491 Margaret Roper indicated by arrow ** English Baroque Era Painter, ca.1565-1616,was an English painter and goldsmith. The son of Leonard Lockey, a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, Lockey was apprenticed to Queen Elizabeth's miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard for eight years beginning Michaelmas 1581[1] and was made a freeman or master of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths by 1600. He worked mainly as a copyist of earlier portraits to make up sets of oil paintings for the fashionable long galleries of great houses, but signed or documented portrait miniatures on vellum and a signed title page engraving for the 1602 Bishops' Bible also survive. 491 Museum Number P.15-1973 Image Reference 2006AM2161 ©Victoria & Albert Museum and reproduced by their kind permission 123
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