But what if these good men, from purely conscientious motives, would have brought over a Spanish army to coerce their Protestant fellow-subjects and their lawful sovereign?
That, and not speculative error, is the real charge against them.

Henry did all he could to put himself in the wrong.

His atrocious request that More "would not use many words on the scaffold" makes one hate him after the lapse of well-nigh four hundred years.

The question, however, is not one of personal feeling.

Good men go wrong.