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It is not known who this William Rame was, unlefs he be in- cluded among the " parfons and vicars" mentioned by Howe in his Chronicle, p. 639-40, as' having been " deprived this year from their benefices, andfomc committed to prifon in the Tower' and other places. " Thomas Rooper 1570. Per paffage penible pqffbns a port plaifant" This perfon was moll probably banimed, as I find no account of his execution. In Strype's Annals of the Reformation, Vol IL p. 648-9, under the year 1580, the " Ropers" are mentioned among the queen's enemies remaining abroad, and a letter of Dr. Parry to the lord treafurer from Paris, is there cited, wherein he intercedes " for fome papifts, fugitives, Mr. John Roper and Mr. Thomas Roper by name, as well worthy of his lordfliip's good opinion and countenance." Thefe were probably defcendants of the Roper who was ibn- in-law to fir Thomas More. In the account of fir Thomas More -and Mr. William Roper, in Wood's Athenae Oxonienfes, (Vol. I. col. 33) it is ftated that Wil- liam Roper, who married Margaret More, was born in Kent, and educated for a time in one of the univerfities. Afterwards he fuc- ceeded his father, John Roper, in the office of firft notary of the King's Bench, which, after he had faithfully performed fifty-four years, he refigned to his fon, Thomas Roper, who held the fame twenty-four years, and died astatis 65, January 51, 1597." In his epitaph in St. Dunftan's church, in the fuburbs of Canterbury, his name is fpelled, as here, with two oo's. " Thomas Rooper, Ar- miger." " 1585. Thomas Bawdewin. JnlL " As vertue maketh life

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