[76] Cocke was a well-known supporter of Henry VI. and a man of note. He was sheriff of London 1453, alderman in 1456, and mayor and M.P. 1462–3. Knighted by Henry in 1465, he fell from his high estate when Edward IV. was king, and languished in prison on a charge of high treason, only escaping with his life on payment of £8,000. [77] “What answer to this demand was returned I find not, but like it is the same was granted and performed; for I find not the said captain and Kentishmen at their being in the city to have hurt any stranger.”--Stow. [78] When, by order of the Privy Council, the Exchequer seized all Cade’s goods, these jewels were sold with the rest. They fetched £114, and a payment of £86 7s. was subsequently made to the Duke of York. So the crown made some profit on the transaction, but Malpas was unrecompensed.--See Devon’s _Exchequer Rolls_. [79] “Whereof he lost the people’s favour and hearts. For it was to be thought if he had not executed that robbery he might have gone far and brought his purpose to good effect.”--Fabyan. [80] This church has long been pulled down. It was absorbed into St. Saviour’s parish the following year. St. Margaret’s Hill is now part of High Street, Borough, and the present St. George’s Church stands near the site of old St. Margaret’s Church. [81] _Acts of Privy Council_, 1451. [82] “In the interests of truth, I must declare at the outset that I cannot find the very slightest foundation for the assertion of Stapleton, copied by Cresacre More and many others, that in the course of time their friendship cooled. Abundant proofs of the contrary will appear.”--Rev. T. E. Bridgett, _Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More_. [83] “Indeed, it was he who pushed me to write the _Praise of Folly_, that is to say, he made a camel frisk.”--Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten, 1519. [84] “He had a purpose to be a priest, yet God had allotted him for another estate, not to live solitary, but that he might be a pattern to married men: how they should carefully bring up their children, how dearly they should love their wives, how they should employ their endeavour wholly for the good of their country, yet excellently perform the virtues of religious men, as piety, charity, humility, obedience and conjugal chastity.”--Cresacre More. [85] Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten. [86] “It is clear that Sir Thomas had a little Utopia of his own in his family. He was making an experiment in education, and he was delighted with its success. The fame of his learned daughters became European through the praises of Erasmus, and was so great in England that in 1529, when they were all married ladies, they were invited by the king to hold a kind of philosophical tournament in his presence.... More will ever stand foremost in the ranks of the defenders of female culture.”--Rev. T. E. Bridgett, _Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More_.