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Oath politics after the Succession Act displace office-holders into prison and exile patterns

After the 1534 Succession oath campaign, More’s refusal placed him among office-holders displaced from liberty into the Tower. The instrument is that carceral displacement, neighbouring the oath-refusal row with a displace driver. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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After the 1534 Succession oath campaign, More’s refusal placed him among office-holders displaced from liberty into the Tower. The instrument is that carceral displacement, neighbouring the oath-refusal row with a displace driver.

Context

Prison is forced removal from household. HRP and Britannica independently narrate Tower confinement after oath refusal. Fisher and others share the pattern.

Thomas More’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are 1478–1535. Surviving public files are later parliamentary biographies, HRP pages, Yale Essential More, and encyclopedias. More did not typeset those later pages. Posthumous canonisation is reception, not a lifetime act.

Why it matters

Forced-displacement path as imprisonment. High confidence on Tower detention.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas More

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He refused the oath and entered the Tower. Other refusers share prison and flight.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Historic Royal Palaces — Sir Thomas More at the TowerHistoric Royal Palaces · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Thomas MoreEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Historic Royal Palaces and Britannica independently describe More’s Tower confinement after the 1534 oath refusal.

Established: oath refusal led to Tower imprisonment. Not established: that every shire saw identical exile waves.

Thomas More did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Carceral displacement is not the July trial twin alone. Keep May prison off 1 July as a pure duplicate.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas More
  2. contributed toFactOath politics after the Succession Act displace office-holders into prison and exile patterns
  3. strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Oath politics after the Succession Act displace office-holders into prison and exile patterns. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-displace-oath-prisoners

https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-displace-oath-prisoners

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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