He recalled Thomas to London and enrolled his son as a law student at New Inn, before entering Lincoln’s Inns in 1496. Although he entered Oxford University in 1492, his father, the lawyer Sir John More, wished him to follow in his footsteps. More had enjoyed an illustrious legal career before moving into public service. Although More had enjoyed an uneasy truce with Henry and Anne, this eventually evaporated as Henry’s opposition to what he saw as papal intrusion into his affairs became more stringent. In the years prior to his death, More had supported neither Henry’s divorce from Queen Katherine or his marriage to Anne Boleyn. Defiant in the face of Henry and his ministers, More refused to take the Oath of Succession, because the preamble of the Act of Succession rejected papal authority over English ecclesiastical affairs. More publicly opposed Henry VIII’s claim that he was the Supreme Head of the Church in England. Image: NPG D39011 © National Portrait Gallery, London Sir Thomas More after Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1527).
RECORD ARCHIVE TRIAL
Sir Thomas More’s trial and execution was shocking in England (and beyond) and the events retain a special prominence, even among the many infamous events of Tudor England. He has been portrayed on screen, stage and in literature and in his own time was at forefront of the English humanist movement.
Sir Thomas More was among the leading statesmen of the Tudor period and his legacy has long survived his execution for treason in 1535.
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