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

Date: 1512

## The fact

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.

It is one event.

## 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](/people/thomas-more)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

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.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: History of Parliament — MORE, Thomas I (1477/78–1535) (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/node/51193/; History of Parliament Trust).

## Significance

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

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Thomas More.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `labour-market-tightness` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Thomas More did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Labour cases are not Richard III’s history. Keep the bench off the unfinished chronicle row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Thomas More.

## People

- Thomas More: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-more

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-More-English-humanist-and-statesman
- https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/node/51193/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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