Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you

get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight we're relaxing with a true classic Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore, edited by Henry Morley.

Let's begin.

Introduction Introduction Sir Thomas Moore, son of Sir John Moore, a Justice of the King's Bench, was born in

1478 in Milk Street in the city of London.

After his earlier education at St Anthony's School in Threatneedle Street. He was placed as a boy in the household

of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor.

It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence

and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client.

The youth wore his patron's livery and added to his state. The patron used afterwards his wealth or influence

in helping his young client forward in the world. Cardinal Morton had been in earlier days that Bishop of Ealy whom Richard III sent to the tower,

was busy afterwards in hostility to Richard, and was a chief advisor of Henry

the 7th, who in 1486 made him Archbishop of Canterbury, and nine months afterwards Lord Chancellor.

Cardinal Morton, of talk at whose table there are recollections in Uopia delighted in the quick wit of young Thomas

Moore.

He once said, whoever shall live to try it shall see this child here waiting a table prove a notable and rare man.

At the age of about 19, Thomas Moore was sent to Canterbury College, Oxford by his patron,

where he learned Greek of the first men who brought Greek studies from Italy to England, William Grossen and Thomas Linicker.

Linicker, a physician who afterwards took orders, was also the founder of the College of Physicians.

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