[2] At the age of fifteen Thomas left school to assist his father in the woolen business for the next ten years.
[1] Once he had been imprisoned in the Tower of London, and at the orders of the Privy Council, his lodgings were searched and a large sum of money, approximately 20-30 pounds, which Thomas had borrowed to help his sick father, was removed.
Twice racked with a view to extracting details of houses where the Roman Catholic Mass was celebrated, Thomas kept silent.
The only concession that William Roper, Thomas More's son-in-law, could obtain was permission to supply him with straw to lie upon.
[5][6] After a hasty trial, and the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering, carried out on 7 February 1578 at Tyburn, where he was cut down while still alive.
[7] Sherwood's mother, being repeatedly discovered at Mass, was intermittently imprisoned for a total of fourteen years.