The subject of this memoir is the principal Vlctm'l of this hard and unmerited sentence of oblivion.' He made the Tudor Dynasty, and his name is buried under his own creation. Sir Thomas More is said to be the first writer of modern English, but it was Cardinal Morton who both superintended his education, sent him to college, and afterwards employed him in his service, and whose remarkable narratives and conversations are supposed to be the Arch bishop's own words.