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As London undersheriff More adjudicates commercial and labour disputes in the City

As undersheriff of London from 1510, More adjudicated commercial and labour-related disputes in the City’s legal routine. The instrument is that civic labour-law practice strand, neighbouring the undersheriff office row with a labour driver. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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As undersheriff of London from 1510, More adjudicated commercial and labour-related disputes in the City’s legal routine. The instrument is that civic labour-law practice strand, neighbouring the undersheriff office row with a labour driver.

Context

City law is shared. History of Parliament and Britannica independently place the undersheriff years as his reputation-making legal service. Unique case totals are not invented here.

Thomas More’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are 1478–1535. Surviving public files are later parliamentary biographies, HRP pages, Yale Essential More, and encyclopedias. More did not typeset those later pages. Posthumous canonisation is reception, not a lifetime act.

Why it matters

Labour-market path via civic adjudication. High confidence on the office; medium on any one dispute’s unique outcome.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas More

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He sat as undersheriff on City causes. Litigants and mayors share the forum.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactAs London undersheriff More adjudicates commercial and labour disputes in the City
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1512 · verified

    Dated undersheriff adjudication is a labour-and-commercial dispute path inside London’s civic courts.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Thomas MoreEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.History of Parliament — MORE, Thomas I (1477/78–1535)History of Parliament Trust · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

History of Parliament and Britannica independently describe More’s undersheriff service in London.

Established: undersheriff work included City commercial/labour causes. Not established: that guilds elected him master.

Thomas More did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Labour cases are not Richard III’s history. Keep the bench off the unfinished chronicle row.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas More
  2. contributed toFactAs London undersheriff More adjudicates commercial and labour disputes in the City
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). As London undersheriff More adjudicates commercial and labour disputes in the City. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-labor-undersheriff-cases

https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-labor-undersheriff-cases

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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