What to Do With a Glove Full of Angels

When a lady gave Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor, a pair of gloves crammed with money in gratitude for deciding a court case in her favour, he took the gloves but not the money. Henry VIII and his mistress Anne Boleyn, who had hoped Sir Thomas would disgrace himself and clear their legal path to marriage, were bitterly disappointed.

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