Autograph letter from Thomas More to Henry VII, 5 March 1534 (ink on paper)

In February 1534, Henry decided to add More’s name, along with Fisher’s, to the Bill for the Attainder (for treason) of the ‘Nun of Kent’, Elizabeth Barton, whose treasonable visions concerning King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn led to her execution. In this, his last letter to Henry, More protested his honesty and sincerity in Barton’s case, and urged that, if the King, after reconsidering the matter, still suspects him to be ‘a wreche of such a monstrouse ingratitude’, then his only comfort would be that ‘I shold onys mete with your Grace agayn in hevyn, and there be mery with you’