Henry VIII1 July 1535
Thomas More is sentenced to the traitor's death of hanging, drawing and quartering.
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Thomas More is sentenced to the traitor's death of hanging, drawing and quartering.
Henry VIII commutes Thomas More's sentence from hanging, drawing and quartering to beheading.
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