Henry VIII made less personal use of the Tower than the kings before him had. Henry's coronation was held in the Tower during the week of his eighteenth birthday, and one of his first items of regal business was to imprison his father's financial agents, Empson and Dudley, so as to spend the bulk of the embezzled treasury. Dudley tried to escape after writing a political treatise within the Tower, and was executed. His family would share residence in the Tower's prison with the Courtenays and Poles, who had indirect claims to the throne, and the Yorkist women whose offspring posed a threat to Henry. Henry's prisoners were well treated. The noble prison garb consisted of furs and sumptuous fabric, and Henry ensured that his young prisoners were well educated. Henry's most famous prisoners were two of his ill fated wives, Anne Boleyn and her cousin Catherine Howard. Their alleged sexual improprieties, during and before the marriage respectively, were punished by imprisonment and beheading. Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, began her coronation ceremony at the Tower of London, on 29 May 29 1533 while six months pregnant with Elizabeth. Three years later Anne's alleged indiscretions and her failure to produce a male heir resulted in her being escorted to the Tower, where she would remain until she was condemned to death by her brother, her father, and her supposed lovers. Henry's fifth wife, Anne's cousin Catherine Howard, would also die for her indiscretions, though the accusations that she had affairs during the marriage were never proven. Catherine was said to have had many lovers before marrying Henry, and the threat of these past lovers, as well as the possibility of marital indiscretions, secured her fate. Henry VIII's Lord Chamberlain, Sir Thomas More, was also a prisoner of the increasingly ominous Tower of London. More refused to swear the Oath of Supremacy and Succession, thereby condemning himself to imprisonment in the Tower as of 17 April 1534. More refused to acknowledge Henry VIII as the sole religious authority in England; More, who had ghost-written that earned Henry the title "Defender of the Faith," remained loyal to the Pope who had conferred that title. More's rebellion against the Royal Supremacy incited by example further resistance from the Carthusians, who were suppressed only through mass imprisonment. Thomas More wrote many works of literature and detailed accounts of his confinement in the Tower, which ended on 6 July 1535 when he was executed. -- [[NAME, YEAR]]