Tyranny ?

Thomas More may or may not have been a victim of Henry VIII's tyrannical vengeance, but what is certain is that he was indeed a victim of a constitutional revolution. He would not allow himself to subordinate loyalty to the Church to loyalty to the Crown, and the Crown would not allow him to maintain loyalty to the Church if it meant making the Church his highest allegiance and the Crown subordinate. More's options were to endorse either royal sovereignty or the sovereignty of the Church. More chose the second option, which under English law made him a traitor. He was put on trial on a charge of capital treason, convicted, and executed on Tower Hill on the sixth of July 1535.