ABSTRACT
King Henry VIII’s unrelenting effort to force the members of the London Charterhouse to subscribe on oath to the Act of Succession and then subsequently to the Act of Supremacy was a calculated strategy.1 If the Carthusians complied then he had perhaps the most crucially important public endorsement of the Acts and their implications; if they did not then the public spectacle of their trials and public execution for treason would serve as a terrifying warning to religious and laity alike of the consequences of such refusal.
