ABSTRACT
William Roper was a lawyer who married Sir Thomas More's daughter Margaret. 1 As prothonotary of the Queen's Bench, Roper was a colleague of Richard Heywood. 2 Richard was a brother of John Heywood, the husband of More's niece Joan Rastell (p. 40). In 1547, as a widower, Roper moved to Crosby Hall, in the parish of St Helen Bishopsgate (p. 26). His principal seat, however, was Well Hall, at Eltham, not far from the royal palace at Greenwich.
