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Sir Thomas More, Went along with Henry VIII wanting divorce but he resigned when Henry VIII claim to be the head of the Church of England. He didn't come to Anne Boylen's coronation as queen but did send a letter wishing the couple happiness. Henry felt it was a snub against Anne, but let it go. The last straw was when More refused to take oath of Act of Succession. Reaction More's conviction for treason was widely seen as unfair, even among Protestants. His friend Erasmus, who (though not a Protestant) was broadly sympathetic to reform movements within the Christian Church, declared after his execution that More had been "more pure than any snow" and that his genius was "such as England never had and never again will have." More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I (any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out). This play also reflects his contemporary reputation among the people of London as a folk hero and 'local boy made good'., Sir Thomas More author He was friend of fellow writer Erasmus - Erasmus dedicated In Praise of Folly to More, Went along with Henry VIII wanting divorce but he resigned when Henry VIII claim to be the head of the Church of England. He didn't come to Anne Boylen's coronation as queen but did send a letter wishing the couple happiness. Henry felt it was a snub against Anne, but let it go. The last straw was when More refused to take oath of Act of Succession. Famous scaffold quotes "See me safe up: for my coming down, I can shift for myself"; while on the scaffold he declared that he died "the king's good servant but God's first." Another belief is that he remarked to the executioner that his beard was completely innocent of any crime, and did not deserve the axe; he then positioned his beard so that it would not be harmed., Sir Thomas More humanist The humanistic project embraced by Erasmus and Thomas More sought to reexamine and revitalize Christian theology by studying the Bible and the writings of the Church Fathers in the light of classical Greek tradition in literature and philosophy., Sir Thomas More author Co-authored with Henry VII Declaration of the Seven Sacrements, Sir Thomas More statesman More had come to believe that the rise of Protestantism represented a grave threat to social and political order in Christian Europe. During his tenure as Lord Chancellor, he wrote several books in which he defended Catholicism and supported the existing anti-heresy laws. His chief concern in this matter was to wipe out collaborators of William Tyndale, the exiled Lutheran who in 1525 had published a Protestant translation of the Bible in English which was circulating clandestinely in England. As Lord Chancellor, More had six Lutherans burned at the stake and imprisoned as many as forty others, some of whom were interrogated under torture in his own house., Sir Thomas More martyr Went along with Henry VIII wanting divorce but he resigned when Henry VIII claim to be the head of the Church of England. He didn't come to Anne Boylen's coronation as queen but did send a letter wishing the couple happiness. Henry felt it was a snub against Anne, but let it go. The last straw was when More refused to take oath of Act of Succession., Sir Thomas More author Utopia (also coined this as a word in the English language) More contrasts the contentious social life of European states with the perfectly orderly and reasonable social arrangements of the Utopia, where private property does not exist and almost complete religious toleration is practiced - though not toleration of athiests.