A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Clements, Margaret
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CLEMENTS, MARGARET,
Born in 1608, niece to Sir Thomas More, in whose house she was brought up, was carefully educated, and made great progress in all the liberal sciences. She corresponded with the celebrated Erasmus, who commends her epistles for their good sense and chaste Latin. About 1531 she married her tutor, Dr. John Clements. They had one daughter, Winifred, on whose education they bestowed the greatest care, and who married a nephew of Sir Thomas More—William Rastell, the greatest lawyer of his time.
Dr. Clements and his wife left England to avoid a religious persecution, and settled at Mechlin, in Brabant, where Mrs. Clement died, July 6th., 1670.