Thomas More

===Indictment===
His enemies had enough evidence to have the King arrest him on treason. Four days later, Henry had More imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]]. There More prepared a devotional ''[[A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation|Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation]]''. While More was imprisoned in the Tower, Thomas Cromwell made several visits, urging More to take the oath, which he continued to refuse.

In his unfinished ''History of the Passion'', written in the Tower to his daughter Meg, he wrote of feeling favoured by God: "For methinketh God maketh me a wanton, and setteth me on his lap and dandleth me."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Review of Book: St Thomas More's History of the Passion |journal=The Downside Review |date=April 1942 |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=230–232 |doi=10.1177/001258064206000211|s2cid=220418917 }}</ref>

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The charges of [[high treason]] related to More's violating the statutes as to the King's supremacy (malicious silence) and conspiring with Bishop [[John Fisher]] in this respect (malicious conspiracy) and, according to some sources, included asserting that Parliament did not have the right to proclaim the King's Supremacy over the English Church. One group of scholars believes that the judges dismissed the first two charges (malicious acts) and tried More only on the final one, but others strongly disagree.<ref name="Kelly_xiv">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oj67cj8f-rIC&q=thomas+more+refused+to+support+annulment&pg=PR14 |title=Thomas More's Trial by Jury: A Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of Documents |editor1=Henry Ansgar Kelly |editor2=Louis W. Karlin |editor3=Gerard Wegemer |publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-84383-629-2 |pages=xiv–xvi}}</ref>

Regardless of the specific charges, the indictment related to violation of the [[Treasons Act 1534]] which declared it treason to speak against the King's Supremacy:<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kXkkCAAAQBAJ&q=thomas+more++executed+++Lieutenant+see+me+safe+william+roper&pg=PA170 |title=Voices of the Reformation: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life |author=John A. Wagner |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-61069-680-7 |page=170}}</ref>

{{blockquote|If any person or persons, after the first day of February next coming, do maliciously wish, will or desire, by words or writing, or by craft imagine, invent, practise, or attempt any bodily harm to be done or committed to the king's most royal person, the queen's, or their heirs apparent, or to deprive them or any of them of their dignity, title, or name of their royal estates …

That then every such person and persons so offending … shall have and suffer such pains of death and other penalties, as is limited and accustomed in cases of high treason.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken/ast/h8a.html#149|title=Annotated original text|date=November 2017}}</ref>}}