You wrote:
“It was More’s efforts that got him arrested and charged with heresy.”
More was a secular official and only had authority in secular affairs in England. Tyndale was arrested on the continent, not England. He was given an ecclesiastical trial, not a secular one.
“More was a secular official and only had authority in secular affairs in England.”
Odd. He approved the deaths of ‘heretics’ in England, and supported the efforts to find and stop Tyndale. He was NOT just concerned with traffic laws!
More was out of power by the time of Tyndale’s betrayal and trial. However, while he could, he supported the efforts to find and kill William Tyndale. That the efforts bore fruit after More’s fall was not More’s fault.
More hated Tyndale, and did his best to stop the Tyndale’s translation since it was designed to be read by commoners. This is not open to doubt, since More wrote extensively about it.
What a great legacy St. Thomas More left all of us.