He was executed on July 6, 1535. In the 14 months before his death, he wrote some of his finest pages, kept his humor, and told his daughter they would “merrily meet in heaven.”
His books and writing materials were taken away in the spring of 1535. Henry VIII had decided that More’s silence — his refusal to speak either for or against the Act of Supremacy recognizing the King as head of the Church in England — was itself a form of defiance that could not be permitted to continue. Among the comforts removed were the
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