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Thomas More entered the world on the 7th of February 1478 within the City of London. The family lived in Milk Street though no contemporary record confirms this specific location as his birthplace.
Thomas More succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as Lord Chancellor in October 1529 to become chief government minister responsible for equity and common law. He dispatched cases with unprecedented rapidity during his tenure until May 1532 when no foreign wars occurred while he held this highest official position.
Henry VIII demanded clergy take an oath acknowledging him as Supreme Head of Church in 1531 which Thomas More refused to sign while remaining privately opposed to royal actions. Parliament reinstated praemunire charges making it criminal to support papal authority over the king after his refusal.
Execution took place at Tower Hill on the 6th of July 1535 where More received death penalty commuted from hanging drawing quartering to decapitation by royal order. His headless corpse was given to adopted daughter Margaret Clement for burial while his severed head fixed upon London Bridge pike for one month before recovery.
Utopia published in Leuven by Erasmus in 1516 described imaginary island state contrasting contentious social life with orderly arrangements where communal ownership replaced private property. No lawyers existed due to law simplicity and men women educated alike with almost complete religious toleration excepted atheists who were despised.