1 00:00:32,782 --> 00:00:34,822 Healthy? 2 00:00:34,902 --> 00:00:36,822 Yes, Your Majesty. 3 00:00:39,022 --> 00:00:41,262 Call her Elizabeth. 4 00:00:41,342 --> 00:00:42,982 Cancel the jousts. 5 00:00:57,062 --> 00:00:59,542 He didn't ask how the Queen was. 6 00:00:59,622 --> 00:01:01,862 {\an8}Hardly matters now, does it? 7 00:01:38,982 --> 00:01:40,302 {\an8}I think she was hungry. 8 00:01:45,262 --> 00:01:46,982 {\an8}My daughter is to live at Hatfield. 9 00:01:48,382 --> 00:01:49,702 {\an8}Yes. 10 00:01:51,022 --> 00:01:54,582 {\an8}I think Spanish Mary's household should be broken up. 11 00:01:54,662 --> 00:01:56,702 She can become a member of my daughter's household. 12 00:01:58,542 --> 00:02:00,942 {\an8}In the capacity of? 13 00:02:01,022 --> 00:02:03,782 In the capacity of my daughter's servant. 14 00:02:05,022 --> 00:02:06,222 What else can she be? 15 00:02:12,622 --> 00:02:15,422 {\an8}There can be no pretence of equality. 16 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:17,822 Mary is a bastard. 17 00:02:17,902 --> 00:02:21,462 Waste can be saved, and the proper order of things asserted. 18 00:02:21,542 --> 00:02:23,902 Meanwhile, I want you to go to France. 19 00:02:25,062 --> 00:02:28,822 I want a marriage contract for my daughter, a French prince. 20 00:02:30,862 --> 00:02:34,182 Stephen Gardiner is... - You're very unwilling today. 21 00:02:35,702 --> 00:02:37,742 You don't like the French? 22 00:02:39,142 --> 00:02:42,862 Perhaps, you prefer an alliance with the Emperor. 23 00:02:42,942 --> 00:02:45,022 You're very friendly with his man, aren't you? 24 00:02:46,182 --> 00:02:47,822 Chapuys? 25 00:02:49,622 --> 00:02:52,062 If that will be all, Your Majesty? 26 00:02:54,702 --> 00:02:55,822 Hmm. 27 00:03:24,182 --> 00:03:26,702 Why don't you ask for her? 28 00:03:27,862 --> 00:03:30,022 The Seymours are poor. 29 00:03:30,102 --> 00:03:32,582 They'll sell her to you happily. 30 00:03:35,582 --> 00:03:36,982 You mistake my interest. 31 00:03:37,062 --> 00:03:40,542 Oh, fa la la. Tell your lies to the Commons, not to me. 32 00:03:40,622 --> 00:03:42,582 I see things. 33 00:03:44,142 --> 00:03:46,582 You and me, we keep our eyes open. 34 00:03:48,182 --> 00:03:50,822 I could keep my eyes open in places you cannot go. 35 00:03:52,102 --> 00:03:54,302 In Anne's rooms, for example. 36 00:03:55,102 --> 00:03:58,222 When you call, you'll find her at prayer, 37 00:03:58,302 --> 00:04:00,742 sewing a smock for a beggar woman. 38 00:04:02,422 --> 00:04:05,302 Do you think that's what's really going on? 39 00:04:06,782 --> 00:04:10,142 Do you think she's given up all her nimble young men? 40 00:04:12,542 --> 00:04:15,382 All those sonnets in praise of her beauty... 41 00:04:16,542 --> 00:04:18,342 She has the King to praise her now. 42 00:04:18,742 --> 00:04:21,702 She'll get no praise from him until she has a ripe belly again. 43 00:04:21,782 --> 00:04:23,862 And what would hinder that? 44 00:04:24,702 --> 00:04:26,382 Nothing. 45 00:04:26,462 --> 00:04:27,502 If he's up to it. 46 00:04:27,982 --> 00:04:28,982 Careful. 47 00:04:35,462 --> 00:04:36,502 And that little sneak 48 00:04:36,582 --> 00:04:39,822 is forever in and out of every room, 49 00:04:39,902 --> 00:04:42,742 acting as a go-between for all the galants. 50 00:04:43,342 --> 00:04:45,862 Oh, I see no harm in the boy. 51 00:04:45,942 --> 00:04:48,302 He doesn't know his place. 52 00:04:48,382 --> 00:04:50,062 He's a jumped up nobody taking his chance 53 00:04:50,142 --> 00:04:52,462 because the times are disordered. 54 00:04:52,542 --> 00:04:56,982 Well, I suppose you could say the same thing about me, Lady Rochford. 55 00:04:57,062 --> 00:04:58,822 And I'm sure you do. 56 00:05:01,782 --> 00:05:05,902 The Queen sees enemies everywhere. - So she should. 57 00:05:05,982 --> 00:05:08,302 They're waiting for her to fail. 58 00:05:10,102 --> 00:05:13,102 She said she'll give Henry a son. 59 00:05:13,182 --> 00:05:17,542 So if she doesn't, all the old families are waiting their turn. 60 00:05:19,222 --> 00:05:21,022 How's our Holy Maid? 61 00:05:21,102 --> 00:05:23,062 Popular. 62 00:05:23,142 --> 00:05:26,502 Mary Magdalene sent her a letter illuminated in gold. 63 00:05:28,142 --> 00:05:29,582 Visitors? 64 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:30,662 Hmm. 65 00:05:41,502 --> 00:05:42,942 Bring her in. 66 00:05:45,542 --> 00:05:49,342 You say that you can roam through heaven, hell and purgatory. 67 00:05:51,382 --> 00:05:53,782 And have you seen the devil also? 68 00:05:54,542 --> 00:05:56,302 And how did he look? 69 00:05:56,782 --> 00:05:58,222 Like a bird. 70 00:05:59,022 --> 00:06:00,662 That's a relief. 71 00:06:01,302 --> 00:06:03,142 You think so? 72 00:06:03,222 --> 00:06:04,222 He stinks. 73 00:06:06,262 --> 00:06:08,702 He's got claws made with blood and shit. 74 00:06:12,182 --> 00:06:14,622 He came to me once as a young man. 75 00:06:15,382 --> 00:06:16,622 To tempt me. 76 00:06:18,302 --> 00:06:19,822 Pawing at me. 77 00:06:21,142 --> 00:06:23,102 And were you? Tempted? 78 00:06:24,622 --> 00:06:26,342 I am not for Satan. 79 00:06:28,382 --> 00:06:31,062 When I rejected him, he spat in my face. 80 00:06:31,142 --> 00:06:32,462 No manners. 81 00:06:32,542 --> 00:06:34,182 I wiped it off with a napkin. 82 00:06:35,262 --> 00:06:37,302 It's black, 83 00:06:37,382 --> 00:06:38,902 with a stench of hell. 84 00:06:40,542 --> 00:06:42,782 Something rotting. 85 00:06:42,862 --> 00:06:44,742 And where is it now? 86 00:06:45,742 --> 00:06:47,542 Dom Edwards has it. 87 00:06:51,302 --> 00:06:54,902 And does he show it to people for money? 88 00:06:54,982 --> 00:06:56,462 For offerings. 89 00:07:00,742 --> 00:07:04,982 You said the King wouldn't reign one month after he married Lady Anne. 90 00:07:06,182 --> 00:07:07,302 Well. 91 00:07:09,382 --> 00:07:11,702 The months have passed, and the Lady Anne is Queen 92 00:07:11,782 --> 00:07:14,062 and has given the King a child. 93 00:07:14,662 --> 00:07:15,662 So... 94 00:07:16,822 --> 00:07:18,902 What do you say now? 95 00:07:18,982 --> 00:07:21,422 I say, in the eyes of God, 96 00:07:21,502 --> 00:07:23,702 he's no more the real King than he 97 00:07:23,782 --> 00:07:25,702 is the real Archbishop. 98 00:07:26,742 --> 00:07:29,462 Then would it be justified to raise a rebellion against him? 99 00:07:29,542 --> 00:07:32,342 Assassinate him? Put another in his place? 100 00:07:33,142 --> 00:07:34,462 What do you think? 101 00:07:37,902 --> 00:07:40,102 Of the possible Plantagenet claimants to the throne, 102 00:07:40,182 --> 00:07:41,822 you've chosen the Courtenay family, 103 00:07:41,902 --> 00:07:43,902 not the Poles. 104 00:07:43,982 --> 00:07:46,542 Henry, Marquess of Exeter, not Henry, Lord Montague, 105 00:07:46,622 --> 00:07:47,822 or do you get them mixed up? 106 00:07:48,182 --> 00:07:49,862 Of course not. 107 00:07:49,942 --> 00:07:53,342 I've met both of those gentlemen. I've met their wives. 108 00:07:53,422 --> 00:07:55,022 I've met Bishop Fisher. 109 00:07:55,102 --> 00:07:56,942 They all come to me. 110 00:07:57,022 --> 00:08:00,422 Now, Courtenay descends from a daughter of King Edward, 111 00:08:00,502 --> 00:08:01,942 Montague from his brother. 112 00:08:03,142 --> 00:08:04,982 How would you sort out their claims? 113 00:08:06,902 --> 00:08:08,662 Or would you let them scrap it out? 114 00:08:09,062 --> 00:08:10,982 It's good to have a few kings and queens in reserve 115 00:08:11,062 --> 00:08:12,502 if you are going to start a war. 116 00:08:12,862 --> 00:08:14,982 Oh. No need of a war. 117 00:08:15,902 --> 00:08:18,382 God is sending a plague to England. 118 00:08:19,302 --> 00:08:21,662 Henry will be dead in six months and so will his whore. 119 00:08:21,742 --> 00:08:24,382 And me? - And you. 120 00:08:24,462 --> 00:08:26,342 And everyone in this room. 121 00:08:27,502 --> 00:08:28,862 Except you. 122 00:08:30,622 --> 00:08:32,422 And my niece Alice? 123 00:08:33,942 --> 00:08:35,862 Who's done you no harm? 124 00:08:38,862 --> 00:08:42,342 All the woman of your house are heretics. 125 00:08:42,422 --> 00:08:45,222 The plague will rot them all. 126 00:08:51,142 --> 00:08:53,702 We're too soft with her. 127 00:08:53,782 --> 00:08:55,142 She's laughing at us. 128 00:08:55,622 --> 00:08:57,862 She's close to confessing. 129 00:08:59,022 --> 00:09:00,702 What makes you think that? 130 00:09:00,782 --> 00:09:02,702 Because my niece is with her at night. 131 00:09:02,782 --> 00:09:05,342 She cries because she knows she's a fraud, 132 00:09:05,422 --> 00:09:07,502 and then she peeps out from under her eyelids 133 00:09:07,582 --> 00:09:09,702 to see the effect her tears have had. 134 00:09:09,782 --> 00:09:11,142 Trust me, she'll confess. 135 00:09:11,222 --> 00:09:13,022 I want to start bringing in her followers. 136 00:09:15,062 --> 00:09:17,662 Thomas More? - No, he's clear of this. 137 00:09:19,662 --> 00:09:21,022 The others she mentioned? 138 00:09:21,102 --> 00:09:23,302 Bishop Fisher, Lady Exeter, the Poles? 139 00:09:23,382 --> 00:09:25,142 I'll deal with them myself. 140 00:09:25,622 --> 00:09:27,782 They are some of the most powerful people in the land. 141 00:09:29,262 --> 00:09:32,142 Well, then, I'll be on my best behaviour. 142 00:10:10,822 --> 00:10:11,822 My Lord Bishop. 143 00:10:12,222 --> 00:10:14,782 Why are you so gullible? 144 00:10:17,342 --> 00:10:19,502 You better ask the King's forgiveness. 145 00:10:19,582 --> 00:10:21,942 Plead old age, infirmity. 146 00:10:22,022 --> 00:10:23,862 I don't know my offence, 147 00:10:23,942 --> 00:10:27,742 and whatever you think, I am not in my second childhood. 148 00:10:27,822 --> 00:10:29,822 I think you are. 149 00:10:29,902 --> 00:10:33,782 Why else would you have given such credence to Elizabeth Barton? 150 00:10:34,262 --> 00:10:36,502 Because when she speaks, she's inspired. 151 00:10:36,982 --> 00:10:40,902 With my own eyes, I have seen a golden letter sent by Mary Mag... 152 00:10:40,982 --> 00:10:42,222 Mary Magdalene, yes. 153 00:10:42,302 --> 00:10:44,342 Actually, it was written by Father Bocking. 154 00:10:44,902 --> 00:10:46,782 The gilding is by a monk. 155 00:10:46,862 --> 00:10:50,342 One William Hawkhurst. 156 00:10:50,422 --> 00:10:53,302 And we know that before the Lord goes about his work, 157 00:10:53,382 --> 00:10:55,262 he gives the warning of himself through his servants. 158 00:10:55,702 --> 00:10:57,382 Oh. - For is it not stated 159 00:10:57,462 --> 00:10:59,102 by the Prophet Amos... - Please, 160 00:10:59,182 --> 00:11:01,662 don't 'Prophet Amos' me. 161 00:11:01,742 --> 00:11:03,902 Barton threatened the King. 162 00:11:03,982 --> 00:11:06,062 She foresaw his death. 163 00:11:07,022 --> 00:11:08,742 Foreseeing is not the same as desiring. 164 00:11:08,822 --> 00:11:12,102 She sat down with the King's enemies and told them they would be King. 165 00:11:12,182 --> 00:11:14,982 If you mean Exeter, why don't you speak to him? 166 00:11:15,062 --> 00:11:18,662 Well, Exeter has not been writing against the King. 167 00:11:18,742 --> 00:11:22,182 You have. - Where? Show me. 168 00:11:23,782 --> 00:11:27,902 Your printers abroad, they're very good. They're working for me now. 169 00:11:30,502 --> 00:11:34,142 In June last year, just after the Queen was crowned, 170 00:11:34,222 --> 00:11:37,062 your son, Lord Montague, and your son, Geoffrey Pole, 171 00:11:37,142 --> 00:11:39,102 dined with Lady Mary. 172 00:11:40,142 --> 00:11:43,062 Two weeks later, they dined with her again. 173 00:11:44,262 --> 00:11:48,062 I wonder what they discussed. - I'm sure you do. 174 00:11:49,622 --> 00:11:52,302 Actually, no. I don't. 175 00:11:52,382 --> 00:11:54,782 The boy who carried in the asparagus? 176 00:11:55,942 --> 00:11:57,942 That was my boy. 177 00:11:58,022 --> 00:12:00,222 The boy who cut the apricots? 178 00:12:01,262 --> 00:12:02,902 He was mine too. 179 00:12:03,542 --> 00:12:08,742 Holy simplicity was all very well in its day, but its day is over. 180 00:12:08,822 --> 00:12:09,862 We're at war. 181 00:12:11,262 --> 00:12:13,782 Just because the Emperor's soldiers aren't running down the street, 182 00:12:13,862 --> 00:12:15,702 don't deceive yourself. 183 00:12:15,782 --> 00:12:17,142 This is a war. 184 00:12:17,662 --> 00:12:19,862 And you're in the enemy camp. 185 00:12:22,462 --> 00:12:26,342 They talked about the Emperor, about the invasion, 186 00:12:26,422 --> 00:12:28,342 about the best way to bring it about. 187 00:12:29,142 --> 00:12:31,622 So you see, Lady Margaret, 188 00:12:33,462 --> 00:12:36,582 your family owes much to my forbearance. 189 00:12:38,262 --> 00:12:40,582 Write to the King, My Lady. Beg his forgiveness. 190 00:12:41,342 --> 00:12:44,382 Tell him you are exceptionally easy to mislead. 191 00:12:45,062 --> 00:12:48,222 Tell him that you don't have the brain of a flea. 192 00:12:52,582 --> 00:12:53,862 Grovel. 193 00:12:54,902 --> 00:12:57,462 I see why Wolsey retained you. 194 00:12:57,542 --> 00:12:59,822 You are a ruffian and so was he. 195 00:13:03,942 --> 00:13:05,502 Fall ill. 196 00:13:05,582 --> 00:13:07,422 Take to your bed. 197 00:13:07,502 --> 00:13:09,422 That's what I recommend. 198 00:13:12,142 --> 00:13:14,302 It's hard to believe they'd betray me. 199 00:13:14,382 --> 00:13:17,622 These people, I've... I've known them all my life. 200 00:13:17,702 --> 00:13:20,182 Exeter's been a friend of mine since I was a boy. 201 00:13:21,662 --> 00:13:22,702 Do you remember Greenwich? 202 00:13:23,342 --> 00:13:26,022 That Christmas, the snowball fight? 203 00:13:28,342 --> 00:13:29,662 It's the wife who's to blame. 204 00:13:30,622 --> 00:13:33,622 She's fickle and weak. 205 00:13:33,702 --> 00:13:36,702 Like all her sex, easily led into scheming. 206 00:13:36,782 --> 00:13:38,462 Forgive her. Write her a pardon. 207 00:13:39,662 --> 00:13:41,982 Put these people under a debt of gratitude to you. 208 00:13:42,062 --> 00:13:44,702 If you forgive them, they'll play us for fools. 209 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:46,422 I don't think so, My Lord. 210 00:13:46,502 --> 00:13:48,262 Everything they do now, they do under my eye. 211 00:13:48,862 --> 00:13:50,622 And the Poles? 212 00:13:50,702 --> 00:13:53,742 Well, I don't think they should be allowed to assume they'll be pardoned. 213 00:13:53,822 --> 00:13:54,942 Greenwich! 214 00:13:56,342 --> 00:13:58,582 That Christmas, the snow was knee deep. 215 00:13:59,742 --> 00:14:01,702 Christ! We were young then, Harry! 216 00:14:01,782 --> 00:14:04,702 You got lost in that drift under the yule tree for half an hour. 217 00:14:04,782 --> 00:14:06,302 With that girl. 218 00:14:06,382 --> 00:14:08,942 What's her name? So-and-so's daughter. - Oh. 219 00:14:40,102 --> 00:14:42,382 How will you frame the charges? 220 00:14:45,102 --> 00:14:49,062 Well, the common law doesn't deal with women who say they can fly 221 00:14:50,262 --> 00:14:51,702 or bring back the dead. 222 00:14:52,742 --> 00:14:53,902 Treason for the principals. 223 00:14:53,982 --> 00:14:58,262 For the accessories, life imprisonment, confiscations, fines. 224 00:14:58,342 --> 00:15:00,782 I think the King will be merciful. 225 00:15:02,662 --> 00:15:06,502 I'm more interested in unravelling the plans of these people. 226 00:15:09,822 --> 00:15:11,662 Well, I'm, um... 227 00:15:12,702 --> 00:15:14,382 I'm clear, anyway. 228 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:18,622 You know I'm clear. 229 00:15:22,142 --> 00:15:24,782 Do you remember how you used to compare the King to a... 230 00:15:24,862 --> 00:15:26,542 A tamed lion? 231 00:15:27,182 --> 00:15:29,022 You can pet him. 232 00:15:29,102 --> 00:15:30,702 You can pull at his ears, if you wish, 233 00:15:30,782 --> 00:15:33,782 but all the time, you're thinking to yourself, 234 00:15:36,022 --> 00:15:37,182 'Those claws. 235 00:15:38,262 --> 00:15:40,102 'Look at those claws.' 236 00:15:41,942 --> 00:15:45,382 We're putting a bill of succession forward, 237 00:15:45,462 --> 00:15:49,182 recognising Anne as Henry's lawful wife 238 00:15:49,262 --> 00:15:51,502 and their children as the rightful heirs. 239 00:15:53,342 --> 00:15:55,382 If the bill succeeds, and it will, 240 00:15:55,462 --> 00:15:57,702 we'd like to seal the act with an oath. 241 00:15:57,782 --> 00:16:00,262 What sort of legislation needs to be confirmed by an oath? 242 00:16:01,862 --> 00:16:03,542 Well, believe it or not, there are those 243 00:16:03,622 --> 00:16:05,822 who will feel such matters should be left to Rome. 244 00:16:06,822 --> 00:16:10,342 We want to make it clear that Rome has no legitimate voice here in England, 245 00:16:10,422 --> 00:16:12,742 so why don't you sign the oath? 246 00:16:13,742 --> 00:16:17,302 Put your loyalty beyond doubt. 247 00:16:19,862 --> 00:16:21,822 She seems to be rather enjoying the attention. 248 00:16:21,902 --> 00:16:24,262 Perhaps that's all she ever wanted. 249 00:16:27,342 --> 00:16:29,022 Come home for dinner with me. 250 00:16:31,782 --> 00:16:33,302 Well, I would, 251 00:16:34,422 --> 00:16:36,982 if you only wanted to put food in my mouth, 252 00:16:37,062 --> 00:16:39,742 but I think you'd like to put words there too. 253 00:16:55,302 --> 00:16:56,382 You mention my death. 254 00:17:00,382 --> 00:17:04,182 'If it should happen your said dear and beloved wife Queen Anne 255 00:17:04,262 --> 00:17:05,822 'to decease.' 256 00:17:05,902 --> 00:17:07,822 I can't exclude the possibility. 257 00:17:07,902 --> 00:17:11,582 You say that if I die, he can put another queen in my place. 258 00:17:11,662 --> 00:17:15,022 I can't imagine anyone else in your place, sweetheart. 259 00:17:15,102 --> 00:17:16,902 It's notional only. 260 00:17:19,142 --> 00:17:21,182 And what if she has a son? 261 00:17:23,102 --> 00:17:24,142 That son will inherit, 262 00:17:24,222 --> 00:17:27,262 and then what will happen to my daughter and her claim? 263 00:17:27,342 --> 00:17:30,182 Well, she would still be Princess of England. 264 00:17:31,182 --> 00:17:32,582 Look. 265 00:17:32,662 --> 00:17:33,862 It says here... 266 00:17:33,942 --> 00:17:35,982 And where does it say Spanish Mary is a bastard? 267 00:17:36,062 --> 00:17:38,262 Lady Mary is out of the line of succession, 268 00:17:38,342 --> 00:17:40,622 so the inference is clear, forgive the language. 269 00:17:40,702 --> 00:17:43,862 We try to write laws sparingly, so that they are not personal. 270 00:17:43,942 --> 00:17:45,582 This is personal. 271 00:17:46,342 --> 00:17:49,222 Cromwell serves us well, sweetheart. 272 00:17:49,302 --> 00:17:52,342 He's not who you should rail against, there are others. 273 00:17:52,422 --> 00:17:53,462 Stephen Gardiner, for one. 274 00:17:55,022 --> 00:17:57,382 The way he has turned on me... 275 00:17:57,462 --> 00:18:00,022 Well, I hate ingratitude. 276 00:18:00,102 --> 00:18:02,342 Hate disloyalty. 277 00:18:02,422 --> 00:18:05,782 Thomas More is another one who has disappointed me. 278 00:18:05,862 --> 00:18:08,782 If Your Majesties will excuse me... 279 00:18:08,862 --> 00:18:11,622 Your bill against Elizabeth Barton. 280 00:18:14,582 --> 00:18:16,102 You should add more to the list of the guilty. 281 00:18:16,822 --> 00:18:19,022 Thomas More is not involved, Your Majesty. 282 00:18:19,102 --> 00:18:21,302 He came to me even before Barton was arrested. 283 00:18:21,382 --> 00:18:22,822 Do it anyway. 284 00:18:24,102 --> 00:18:26,382 I want him frightened. 285 00:18:26,462 --> 00:18:29,422 Fright can unmake a man. I've seen it happen. 286 00:18:42,902 --> 00:18:44,382 Cromwell! 287 00:18:52,142 --> 00:18:53,542 I won't die. 288 00:18:54,862 --> 00:18:56,582 I'll give the King a son. 289 00:18:58,222 --> 00:18:59,822 And I won't die. 290 00:19:09,342 --> 00:19:12,022 You want me to kneel down and beg for More's life? 291 00:19:13,382 --> 00:19:17,302 The Commons won't like him being included on the list, My Lord. 292 00:19:18,222 --> 00:19:19,942 They could oppose the bill, 293 00:19:20,022 --> 00:19:23,942 and the King swears he'll come before them himself and insist. 294 00:19:25,862 --> 00:19:27,662 He could have a very public fall. 295 00:19:27,742 --> 00:19:30,622 If you beg, My Lord, the King couldn't refuse you. 296 00:19:30,702 --> 00:19:33,902 It would allow His Majesty an honourable way back. 297 00:19:34,742 --> 00:19:38,342 After all, we are asking him to contradict the wishes of his own wife. 298 00:19:38,422 --> 00:19:41,262 That's true. This is my niece's work. 299 00:19:43,502 --> 00:19:45,382 Take things personally, women. 300 00:19:45,462 --> 00:19:48,102 I think the King takes it personally. 301 00:19:48,182 --> 00:19:49,622 Which is weak. 302 00:19:49,702 --> 00:19:51,622 Why should he care what More thinks of him? 303 00:19:51,702 --> 00:19:53,422 You call the King weak? 304 00:19:53,502 --> 00:19:54,942 'Call the King weak. 305 00:19:55,022 --> 00:19:57,062 'Ooh. Call the King weak.' 306 00:19:57,142 --> 00:19:59,942 Speaking for yourself for once, Lord Chancellor. 307 00:20:00,022 --> 00:20:03,862 Usually, you wait till Cromwell speaks, and then it's, 'Tweet, tweet. 308 00:20:03,942 --> 00:20:05,742 'Whatever you say, Tom.' 309 00:20:06,582 --> 00:20:09,822 If I had a crossbow, I'd shoot your fucking head off! 310 00:20:10,262 --> 00:20:11,982 I said, 'No one in.' 311 00:20:12,062 --> 00:20:14,862 Thomas More's son-in-law is here to plead for him, sir. 312 00:20:17,702 --> 00:20:18,702 Oh. 313 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:24,622 My Lord. 314 00:20:26,062 --> 00:20:29,142 Should we send for My Lord Suffolk instead? 315 00:20:29,222 --> 00:20:31,582 No. His son is dying. 316 00:20:31,662 --> 00:20:32,862 His heir. 317 00:20:33,622 --> 00:20:36,542 He'll have to start breeding again, 318 00:20:36,622 --> 00:20:37,982 with his new wife. 319 00:20:38,062 --> 00:20:39,222 She's 14, you know. 320 00:20:41,582 --> 00:20:43,422 He won't leave her alone. 321 00:20:43,502 --> 00:20:46,302 Not judging by the startled look on her face. 322 00:20:51,702 --> 00:20:53,422 If only I could get rid of my wife. 323 00:20:54,102 --> 00:20:57,222 My Lord, you have been well-married these 20 years. 324 00:20:57,302 --> 00:20:58,702 Yes. 325 00:20:58,782 --> 00:20:59,982 I know. 326 00:21:01,382 --> 00:21:04,342 It's like placing your person inside a grizzled leather bag. 327 00:21:12,462 --> 00:21:15,462 All right, I'll do it, if Cranmer does it too. 328 00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:19,622 Why should the laymen wear out their joints? 329 00:21:22,502 --> 00:21:25,142 She'll spit blood when she hears. 330 00:21:43,182 --> 00:21:44,422 Very well. 331 00:21:46,502 --> 00:21:48,342 Remove his name from the bill. 332 00:21:49,942 --> 00:21:52,062 But tell him, he will take the oath. 333 00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:13,702 Thought I'd be stuck there for another hour, 334 00:22:13,782 --> 00:22:16,502 entreating and entreating. 335 00:22:16,582 --> 00:22:18,342 Cromwell! 336 00:22:18,422 --> 00:22:19,422 Hmm. 337 00:22:49,022 --> 00:22:51,382 The Queen has, uh, 338 00:22:51,462 --> 00:22:52,902 missed her... 339 00:22:54,422 --> 00:22:55,502 Ah! 340 00:23:04,342 --> 00:23:05,542 This time for sure. 341 00:23:07,222 --> 00:23:08,622 England is ours. 342 00:23:11,502 --> 00:23:13,422 Crumb. 343 00:23:29,702 --> 00:23:30,942 I can't take the oath. 344 00:23:34,862 --> 00:23:37,142 But I will not speak against it, 345 00:23:38,062 --> 00:23:41,222 and I won't try to dissuade anyone else from it. 346 00:23:41,302 --> 00:23:43,822 That's not enough, and you know it's not. 347 00:23:47,382 --> 00:23:51,542 These are the names of the priests who have all sworn to the act. 348 00:23:53,022 --> 00:23:55,942 You know Members of Parliament are conformable. 349 00:23:58,262 --> 00:23:59,822 So why not you? 350 00:24:02,542 --> 00:24:05,462 This is not a comfortable place for any of us. 351 00:24:05,542 --> 00:24:08,742 More comfortable than where you're going. 352 00:24:08,822 --> 00:24:10,662 Well, not hell, I trust. 353 00:24:10,742 --> 00:24:13,342 So if your soul is damned if you sign this oath, 354 00:24:13,422 --> 00:24:15,622 what about all of these? Are they damned? 355 00:24:16,702 --> 00:24:21,062 Or is your conscience so much more refined than all of theirs? 356 00:24:21,142 --> 00:24:23,142 I cannot speak for their conscience. 357 00:24:23,222 --> 00:24:26,302 Or where it is a question of conscience? 358 00:24:26,382 --> 00:24:28,382 There must be some doubt. 359 00:24:29,662 --> 00:24:33,102 And when you entered the King's service, you took an oath to obey him. 360 00:24:33,182 --> 00:24:34,862 So... 361 00:24:34,942 --> 00:24:40,262 Won't you set your doubts against that certainty and swear? 362 00:24:44,142 --> 00:24:47,582 When you were appointed Archbishop, you swore an oath to Rome. 363 00:24:48,542 --> 00:24:52,422 But they say, all through the ceremony, you kept a little paper folded up 364 00:24:52,502 --> 00:24:55,062 saying you took the oath under protest. 365 00:24:55,862 --> 00:24:56,982 Then perhaps, you could... 366 00:24:57,062 --> 00:24:59,662 Yes, you would suggest that, Richard Rich. 367 00:25:01,902 --> 00:25:04,542 I remember you as a youth, and you were ever a creature of vice, 368 00:25:04,622 --> 00:25:07,022 but I will not be such a juggler. 369 00:25:13,982 --> 00:25:15,702 I've respected you. 370 00:25:17,982 --> 00:25:20,982 Since I was a boy, I've respected you. 371 00:25:22,302 --> 00:25:27,582 But I'd sooner see my own son killed than see you refuse to sign this oath 372 00:25:27,662 --> 00:25:30,782 and give comfort to every enemy of England. 373 00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:32,102 No. 374 00:25:34,222 --> 00:25:35,382 Gregory is a good boy. 375 00:25:35,462 --> 00:25:37,062 Do not wish him away. 376 00:25:43,662 --> 00:25:45,102 We can't let you go home. 377 00:25:49,462 --> 00:25:51,182 Will I see my daughter again? 378 00:25:53,022 --> 00:25:55,422 Just have to say some words, that's all. 379 00:25:56,822 --> 00:25:58,382 Oh, just words. 380 00:26:46,942 --> 00:26:48,982 Out of interest, 381 00:26:49,062 --> 00:26:51,302 of what vices are you a creature? 382 00:26:53,542 --> 00:26:55,302 I was a boy. 383 00:26:55,382 --> 00:26:59,222 And to this day, he can't see me without trying to make me a sermon. 384 00:26:59,302 --> 00:27:00,902 He should at least give his reasons... 385 00:27:00,982 --> 00:27:03,902 You know his reasons. All of Europe knows his reasons. 386 00:27:03,982 --> 00:27:05,062 He's against the divorce. 387 00:27:05,142 --> 00:27:07,142 He doesn't believe the King can be Head of the Church. 388 00:27:07,222 --> 00:27:10,782 His heart is with Rome, not with England. 389 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:13,982 He'd sooner see some foreigner imposed by the Emperor ruling us 390 00:27:14,062 --> 00:27:16,942 than back a man who's been his friend since childhood. 391 00:27:17,022 --> 00:27:18,582 And do you know what I hate most? 392 00:27:18,982 --> 00:27:23,422 He's writing an account of today for all of Europe to read and, in it, 393 00:27:23,502 --> 00:27:25,222 we'll be the fools and oppressors, 394 00:27:25,302 --> 00:27:29,502 and he'll be the poor victim with the better turn of phrase. 395 00:27:29,582 --> 00:27:31,342 He wrote this play years ago, 396 00:27:31,422 --> 00:27:35,822 and he sniggers every time I trip over my lines. 397 00:27:40,702 --> 00:27:44,822 Do you think it's already been decided what the Queen's baby will be? 398 00:27:44,902 --> 00:27:46,942 Or does God decide later? 399 00:27:48,262 --> 00:27:50,462 I wish we could see inside her so we'd be able to tell. 400 00:27:50,542 --> 00:27:52,502 I wish she were down in Wiltshire. 401 00:27:56,702 --> 00:27:58,422 I'd like a baby. 402 00:27:58,502 --> 00:27:59,782 Watch yourself. 403 00:27:59,862 --> 00:28:03,262 If your belly shows, they'll brick you up alive. 404 00:28:03,342 --> 00:28:06,262 Although your family would probably give you a bouquet. 405 00:28:06,342 --> 00:28:10,302 They don't know what countenance is down at Wolf Hall. 406 00:28:11,622 --> 00:28:13,062 I meant no harm. 407 00:28:13,142 --> 00:28:16,342 Oh, God! It's like baiting a field mouse. I... 408 00:28:54,302 --> 00:28:55,382 How is the Queen? 409 00:28:59,462 --> 00:29:01,502 I heard of her loss. 410 00:29:01,582 --> 00:29:03,542 It's 'yes' or 'no' today. 411 00:29:05,982 --> 00:29:07,142 You must speak. 412 00:29:11,222 --> 00:29:14,222 If I say no to your oath, 413 00:29:14,302 --> 00:29:16,142 I put my body in peril. 414 00:29:17,302 --> 00:29:19,702 If I say yes, 415 00:29:19,782 --> 00:29:21,102 my soul. 416 00:29:25,062 --> 00:29:26,302 So I say nothing. 417 00:29:27,542 --> 00:29:30,262 Bishop Fisher is more of a man than you. 418 00:29:30,342 --> 00:29:33,142 He declares his dissent and takes the consequences. 419 00:29:33,222 --> 00:29:35,822 You want to be a traitor, but hide behind silence. 420 00:29:35,902 --> 00:29:39,742 No. What he wants is to be a martyr. 421 00:29:39,822 --> 00:29:42,662 What I want is to go home. 422 00:29:42,742 --> 00:29:45,662 You never understood where the line is drawn 423 00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:49,102 between a sacrifice and self-slaughter. 424 00:29:49,182 --> 00:29:51,462 Christ tried. 425 00:29:51,542 --> 00:29:55,182 You don't find anything wrong in the comparison? 426 00:30:00,702 --> 00:30:02,342 I do nobody harm. 427 00:30:04,022 --> 00:30:06,542 I say none harm. I think none harm. 428 00:30:08,982 --> 00:30:11,742 If this isn't enough to keep a man alive... 429 00:30:11,822 --> 00:30:14,582 You do nobody harm. What about Bilney? 430 00:30:15,502 --> 00:30:16,982 What about Bainham? 431 00:30:18,102 --> 00:30:19,662 Do you remember James Bainham? 432 00:30:19,742 --> 00:30:22,222 Who you had racked in your own home. 433 00:30:24,102 --> 00:30:26,302 Who you had beaten and abused. 434 00:30:27,062 --> 00:30:29,062 His body was so broken, they had to carry him, 435 00:30:29,142 --> 00:30:31,942 carry him in the chair to Smithfield to be burned. 436 00:30:32,022 --> 00:30:34,902 And you say, Thomas More, you do no one harm. 437 00:30:36,302 --> 00:30:37,942 You just be grateful, sir, 438 00:30:38,022 --> 00:30:41,182 that we have spared you the methods you use on others. 439 00:30:47,982 --> 00:30:51,822 It's the King's pleasure that we move to indictment and trial. 440 00:31:06,742 --> 00:31:10,222 When I was a serving boy at Lambeth, I brought you bread one night. 441 00:31:11,542 --> 00:31:13,702 You must have been about 14. 442 00:31:16,022 --> 00:31:19,822 They were already speaking about you being the great scholar. 443 00:31:21,742 --> 00:31:23,342 You were reading. 444 00:31:24,062 --> 00:31:25,382 I remember. 445 00:31:26,902 --> 00:31:29,302 I asked you what was in the book. 446 00:31:32,502 --> 00:31:33,982 And you said, 447 00:31:36,982 --> 00:31:38,262 'Words. 448 00:31:40,862 --> 00:31:42,182 'Words. 449 00:31:45,862 --> 00:31:47,142 'Just words.' 450 00:31:48,782 --> 00:31:50,102 As I have already told you, 451 00:31:50,182 --> 00:31:52,622 I have no recollection of meeting you then. 452 00:31:53,422 --> 00:31:54,702 No. 453 00:31:55,942 --> 00:31:57,462 Why would you? 454 00:32:16,582 --> 00:32:18,022 I hear your Tyndale has been caught. 455 00:32:19,982 --> 00:32:23,902 They say someone tempted him from his hiding place, some agent. 456 00:32:24,822 --> 00:32:26,542 And he was taken. 457 00:32:26,622 --> 00:32:27,982 Your man? 458 00:32:28,422 --> 00:32:30,102 No, of course not. 459 00:32:30,982 --> 00:32:33,022 Thomas More hurts no one. 460 00:32:37,782 --> 00:32:38,862 Yes. 461 00:32:49,222 --> 00:32:50,702 It's all because of me. 462 00:32:53,382 --> 00:32:54,782 When finally you have out of More 463 00:32:54,862 --> 00:32:56,862 what troubles his singular conscience, 464 00:32:56,942 --> 00:33:00,422 you'll find it's that he won't bend his knee to my queenship. 465 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:06,582 I'll have no peace until Fisher is dead. 466 00:33:08,022 --> 00:33:11,022 I'll have no peace until More is dead. 467 00:33:11,102 --> 00:33:13,182 England will have no peace. 468 00:33:14,702 --> 00:33:17,102 Thomas More prays for the Emperor to invade us. I know this. 469 00:33:18,262 --> 00:33:19,742 You know this. 470 00:33:21,182 --> 00:33:24,542 He knows it, but he won't admit it. - He was my friend. 471 00:33:25,902 --> 00:33:28,902 And yet now, in this time of danger for England, 472 00:33:28,982 --> 00:33:31,142 when you need his support, 473 00:33:31,222 --> 00:33:33,462 he gives comfort to the enemy. 474 00:33:35,582 --> 00:33:38,782 This silence of his, on which he relies, it conceals treason. 475 00:33:38,862 --> 00:33:40,142 So make him talk. 476 00:33:48,102 --> 00:33:50,262 No, madam, we don't do that. 477 00:34:05,822 --> 00:34:07,462 My wife is, um... 478 00:34:12,622 --> 00:34:13,702 Her grief... 479 00:34:16,342 --> 00:34:17,422 Yes. 480 00:34:23,022 --> 00:34:24,982 It's Katherine I blame. 481 00:34:26,222 --> 00:34:28,982 All those years, she couldn't hold a son. 482 00:34:30,062 --> 00:34:31,982 Now, she ill wishes me. 483 00:34:34,462 --> 00:34:38,062 Lies between me and the woman I love with her cold heart. 484 00:34:46,502 --> 00:34:50,182 You know, they burned it before I could see if it was a boy. 485 00:34:55,182 --> 00:34:58,062 It may have been impossible to tell, 486 00:34:58,142 --> 00:34:59,382 Your Majesty. 487 00:35:00,582 --> 00:35:01,822 So soon. 488 00:35:02,822 --> 00:35:04,302 Hmm. 489 00:35:10,142 --> 00:35:12,742 This, um... 490 00:35:12,822 --> 00:35:14,582 This business of Thomas More. 491 00:35:16,742 --> 00:35:19,582 I don't doubt his loyalty to Rome, 492 00:35:19,662 --> 00:35:23,942 nor his hatred of Your Majesty's title, this Head of the Church. 493 00:35:24,942 --> 00:35:28,822 However, legally, our case is slender. 494 00:35:30,062 --> 00:35:31,702 It won't be easy. 495 00:35:35,542 --> 00:35:37,542 Do I keep you for what's easy? 496 00:35:40,142 --> 00:35:44,582 Do you think I've promoted you for the charm of your presence? 497 00:35:46,782 --> 00:35:49,302 I keep you because you are a serpent. 498 00:35:52,382 --> 00:35:54,622 Do not be a viper in my bosom. 499 00:36:01,462 --> 00:36:02,902 You know my decision. 500 00:36:02,982 --> 00:36:04,342 Execute it. 501 00:36:26,982 --> 00:36:28,502 That woman on the wall... 502 00:36:31,102 --> 00:36:32,342 I know who she is. 503 00:36:33,822 --> 00:36:35,062 Sheba. 504 00:36:35,702 --> 00:36:37,262 For you. 505 00:36:37,342 --> 00:36:39,382 I know who she is for you. 506 00:36:40,982 --> 00:36:43,062 Why you always look at her. 507 00:36:46,462 --> 00:36:47,942 They told me about her in Antwerp. 508 00:36:50,222 --> 00:36:51,782 The woman Cromwell loved. 509 00:36:55,982 --> 00:36:58,542 Why don't you go back and claim her? 510 00:36:59,862 --> 00:37:01,342 She's married. 511 00:37:03,622 --> 00:37:05,262 It was years ago. 512 00:37:06,062 --> 00:37:08,862 I've changed. - Yeah. You are rich now. 513 00:37:15,142 --> 00:37:16,462 I think... 514 00:37:21,142 --> 00:37:23,022 What? - Nothing. 515 00:37:25,262 --> 00:37:26,622 What? 516 00:37:26,702 --> 00:37:28,662 You're going to hang me up by my wrists until I talk? 517 00:37:34,342 --> 00:37:37,822 I think there is another woman in your heart now. 518 00:37:40,302 --> 00:37:42,942 Thomas More's wife is here to see you. 519 00:38:07,222 --> 00:38:08,582 Lady Alice. 520 00:38:11,262 --> 00:38:14,822 When I came here before, this was a musty old place. 521 00:38:14,902 --> 00:38:17,542 My husband used to say, 'Put Thomas Cromwell in a dungeon, 522 00:38:17,622 --> 00:38:21,062 'and by evening, he'll be sitting on cushions with jailors owing him money.' 523 00:38:28,862 --> 00:38:32,222 Did he talk a lot about putting me in dungeons? 524 00:38:32,302 --> 00:38:34,502 He... It was only talk. 525 00:38:50,662 --> 00:38:52,502 I thought you might take me to see the King. 526 00:38:52,582 --> 00:38:56,222 I know he's always kind to women. - I can't do that. 527 00:38:56,302 --> 00:38:57,822 I wish I could. 528 00:38:59,862 --> 00:39:02,742 You've always been good to us. I wonder why. 529 00:39:04,102 --> 00:39:07,342 You always have some trick. 530 00:39:08,142 --> 00:39:10,222 Born tricky. Can't help it. 531 00:39:15,982 --> 00:39:18,662 Alice, why is your husband so stubborn? 532 00:39:20,102 --> 00:39:23,422 I no more understand him than I do the Holy Trinity. 533 00:39:25,902 --> 00:39:27,582 I worry he's cold. 534 00:39:28,942 --> 00:39:31,622 He tells me nothing. All his letters are to his precious Meg. 535 00:39:33,542 --> 00:39:36,462 Don't think there's no tenderness between us. 536 00:39:37,142 --> 00:39:40,102 We had dealings, one time or another. 537 00:39:40,182 --> 00:39:43,502 And when that's true, you can't help but worry about a man. 538 00:39:43,582 --> 00:39:44,942 Wonder if... 539 00:39:46,742 --> 00:39:48,542 Wond... 540 00:39:48,622 --> 00:39:50,702 Wonder if he's feeling cold. 541 00:39:56,262 --> 00:39:57,662 When you talk to him, 542 00:39:58,342 --> 00:40:00,142 ask him from me... 543 00:40:00,222 --> 00:40:01,382 Ask him, 544 00:40:01,462 --> 00:40:05,822 does he think it's clever to leave his wife without company? 545 00:40:05,902 --> 00:40:08,182 His son without advice? 546 00:40:08,262 --> 00:40:11,462 His daughter without protection? 547 00:40:11,542 --> 00:40:14,702 And all of us at the mercy of a man like yourself? 548 00:40:34,462 --> 00:40:37,182 We have to take away your pens and papers and your books. 549 00:40:48,102 --> 00:40:51,262 Very well. If you must take them, take them now. 550 00:41:19,702 --> 00:41:21,502 Alice came to see me. 551 00:41:22,822 --> 00:41:26,382 She wants you home. All you have to do is sign this. 552 00:41:26,462 --> 00:41:28,182 Meg has signed it. 553 00:41:30,702 --> 00:41:32,782 Your own beloved daughter. 554 00:41:33,582 --> 00:41:36,502 Just sign the paper, the King will be happy. 555 00:41:43,662 --> 00:41:46,182 I'll send my barge to row you back to Chelsea. 556 00:41:46,262 --> 00:41:49,902 Back to your garden, your children, back to Dame Alice 557 00:41:49,982 --> 00:41:52,942 who'd be waiting to bear you up to your own bed. 558 00:41:56,142 --> 00:41:57,942 Don't you want that? 559 00:42:00,742 --> 00:42:03,102 Don't you want to be out of this place you're in? 560 00:42:06,862 --> 00:42:09,062 When we meet again in heaven, 561 00:42:11,102 --> 00:42:12,862 as I hope we will, 562 00:42:14,982 --> 00:42:17,022 all our differences will be forgot. 563 00:42:17,582 --> 00:42:20,182 But for now, we cannot wish them away. 564 00:42:21,902 --> 00:42:25,382 All I have, all I own, is the ground I stand upon. 565 00:42:26,542 --> 00:42:28,622 That ground is Thomas More. 566 00:42:28,702 --> 00:42:31,182 If you want it, you must take it. 567 00:42:33,742 --> 00:42:35,542 I will not yield it. 568 00:42:46,582 --> 00:42:49,182 When you come before the court, 569 00:42:49,262 --> 00:42:51,382 throw yourself upon the King's mercy. 570 00:42:52,502 --> 00:42:54,302 He's not a cruel man. 571 00:42:55,462 --> 00:42:57,182 You know that. 572 00:42:57,262 --> 00:42:58,422 Do I? 573 00:43:01,262 --> 00:43:03,022 He didn't use to be, 574 00:43:05,702 --> 00:43:08,222 but then, he's changed the company he keeps. 575 00:43:13,662 --> 00:43:14,982 Anyway. 576 00:43:17,982 --> 00:43:20,822 It's not important what happens to my body. 577 00:43:25,462 --> 00:43:28,942 Are you not afraid of the pain? - Oh, yes. 578 00:43:29,702 --> 00:43:31,302 I'm very much afraid. 579 00:43:31,382 --> 00:43:36,382 I'm not a strong and robust man, such as yourself. 580 00:43:39,782 --> 00:43:42,502 I cannot help but rehearse it in my mind. 581 00:43:46,582 --> 00:43:48,302 But I'll only feel it for a moment, 582 00:43:48,382 --> 00:43:51,102 and God will not let me remember it afterwards. 583 00:44:20,942 --> 00:44:23,262 I would have left you, you know, 584 00:44:25,342 --> 00:44:27,022 to live out your life, 585 00:44:29,102 --> 00:44:31,142 to repent your cruelties, 586 00:44:34,182 --> 00:44:35,742 if I were King. 587 00:45:08,222 --> 00:45:09,902 Take away his books. 588 00:45:09,982 --> 00:45:11,662 I'll send someone. 589 00:45:14,822 --> 00:45:16,422 No, Richard. 590 00:45:18,422 --> 00:45:20,702 I'd like you to do it yourself. 591 00:45:34,662 --> 00:45:38,902 If the jury throws it out, the King will skin us alive. 592 00:45:38,982 --> 00:45:40,662 No. 593 00:45:40,742 --> 00:45:42,262 But the Queen will. 594 00:45:45,822 --> 00:45:47,182 My God. 595 00:45:48,862 --> 00:45:50,422 It looks like we've had him whipped. 596 00:45:53,422 --> 00:45:56,022 And he says I never miss a trick. 597 00:46:00,702 --> 00:46:04,382 If he stands on his silence... - His silence proves nothing. 598 00:46:04,462 --> 00:46:06,182 He doesn't have to prove anything, My Lord. 599 00:46:06,982 --> 00:46:10,862 His plea is that his silence is consent enough to the King's desires. 600 00:46:10,942 --> 00:46:12,662 Bollocks. 601 00:46:12,742 --> 00:46:15,422 It is the maxim of the common law. - Still bollocks. 602 00:46:21,222 --> 00:46:23,542 He hasn't been entirely silent. 603 00:46:29,862 --> 00:46:31,862 I came to take away your books, 604 00:46:33,382 --> 00:46:37,142 and as I did so, I tried to convince you one last time to take the oath. 605 00:46:38,622 --> 00:46:40,942 I put a case to you, did I not? 606 00:46:43,222 --> 00:46:45,382 I asked you, 'If Parliament had a vote, 607 00:46:45,462 --> 00:46:47,182 'and made me King, 608 00:46:49,782 --> 00:46:50,822 'would you go along with it?' 609 00:46:52,462 --> 00:46:56,382 And you said, 'Nothing that Parliament would do would surprise me these days. 610 00:46:56,462 --> 00:46:59,662 'But if they voted that Richard Rich should be God, 611 00:46:59,742 --> 00:47:01,262 'I would draw a line there.' 612 00:47:02,102 --> 00:47:04,102 I asked you, 'Why?' 613 00:47:04,182 --> 00:47:06,302 Do you remember your reply? 614 00:47:09,022 --> 00:47:11,422 I made no record of it, having no writing materials, 615 00:47:11,502 --> 00:47:14,142 you having already taken them from me. 616 00:47:14,702 --> 00:47:15,822 Yeah, it's true. 617 00:47:15,902 --> 00:47:18,742 You said, 'Parliament cannot do it. 618 00:47:18,822 --> 00:47:21,702 'It can make laws in the earthly realm, not the heavenly.' 619 00:47:22,462 --> 00:47:25,142 So I said, 'It could not make me God, 620 00:47:25,222 --> 00:47:26,422 'nor Head of the Church, either, 621 00:47:26,502 --> 00:47:28,502 'for surely, that is a spiritual jurisdiction.' 622 00:47:28,582 --> 00:47:31,502 And you said, 'No. Parliament cannot do it.' 623 00:47:32,062 --> 00:47:33,382 Meaning what? 624 00:47:33,462 --> 00:47:36,342 Meaning if Parliament names the King the Head of the Church, 625 00:47:36,422 --> 00:47:38,102 it has no effect, 626 00:47:38,822 --> 00:47:40,782 according to Sir Thomas. 627 00:47:41,382 --> 00:47:43,182 He denied the King's title. 628 00:47:43,262 --> 00:47:46,342 That would be treason. 629 00:47:46,422 --> 00:47:48,742 Ask yourselves, gentlemen, 630 00:47:48,822 --> 00:47:53,102 why would I open my mind to a man like Richard Rich? 631 00:47:54,582 --> 00:47:57,702 Why, when the learned and the pious have implored me, 632 00:47:57,782 --> 00:48:00,542 when the King himself with witty reasons sought to persuade me? 633 00:48:00,622 --> 00:48:03,302 Because you think I don't matter. 634 00:48:04,222 --> 00:48:05,982 That is what you said. 635 00:48:06,062 --> 00:48:08,222 I will take my oath on it. - Your oath? 636 00:48:08,982 --> 00:48:10,302 You oath isn't worth a devil's fart. 637 00:48:10,382 --> 00:48:13,142 Christ help you, Rich. 638 00:48:13,222 --> 00:48:15,142 I've known you ever since you were a child. 639 00:48:15,222 --> 00:48:18,342 You were the despair of your family. You're a gambler and a waste. 640 00:48:18,422 --> 00:48:21,822 May I remind you that Richard Rich is Solicitor General. 641 00:48:22,822 --> 00:48:25,102 Not to be talked to like some pot boy. 642 00:48:27,022 --> 00:48:28,862 Did you speak the words alleged? 643 00:48:33,542 --> 00:48:36,102 I doubt it, and if I did... - 'If' you did? 644 00:48:36,182 --> 00:48:37,662 If I did, 645 00:48:37,742 --> 00:48:40,062 they were not meant with malice. 646 00:48:42,222 --> 00:48:44,862 And so, Masters, you cannot find them treasonable, 647 00:48:44,942 --> 00:48:47,782 and you are bound to disregard such words whatever this court tells you. 648 00:49:03,382 --> 00:49:04,662 Prisoner, 649 00:49:04,742 --> 00:49:07,062 this court has found you guilty of treason. 650 00:49:07,142 --> 00:49:09,062 Your sentence will be... - Wait. 651 00:49:09,142 --> 00:49:11,182 He has the right to speak. 652 00:49:11,262 --> 00:49:12,542 Oh, forgive me. 653 00:49:13,502 --> 00:49:16,182 Does the prisoner have anything to say? 654 00:49:22,502 --> 00:49:24,662 I have followed my conscience. 655 00:49:26,582 --> 00:49:28,382 You must follow yours. 656 00:49:29,342 --> 00:49:31,142 My conscience satisfies me, 657 00:49:31,222 --> 00:49:34,062 and now, I will speak plainly, 658 00:49:34,142 --> 00:49:36,702 that your statute is faulty and your authority baseless. 659 00:49:40,742 --> 00:49:42,622 My conscience stands with the majority. 660 00:49:44,222 --> 00:49:48,062 Against Henry's Kingdom, I have all the Kingdoms of Christendom. 661 00:49:48,142 --> 00:49:50,462 Now, we see your malice, sir. 662 00:49:50,542 --> 00:49:51,662 Against each one of your bishops. 663 00:49:51,742 --> 00:49:55,942 Now, we see, you choose Rome over England. 664 00:49:56,022 --> 00:49:59,142 Against your Parliament. - You traitor! 665 00:49:59,222 --> 00:50:02,862 I have all the General Councils of the Church 666 00:50:02,942 --> 00:50:06,422 stretching back for 1,000 years. 667 00:50:07,142 --> 00:50:08,822 You traitor! 668 00:50:10,502 --> 00:50:11,982 Traitor! 669 00:50:37,862 --> 00:50:40,982 It's the prayer book he had with him at the end. 670 00:50:49,422 --> 00:50:51,102 You had no choice, Master. 671 00:53:12,542 --> 00:53:14,102 Thomas. 672 00:53:15,222 --> 00:53:16,342 Liz. 673 00:53:17,942 --> 00:53:19,302 Thomas. 674 00:53:19,382 --> 00:53:20,622 It's Johane. 675 00:53:22,262 --> 00:53:23,862 You have a fever. 676 00:53:24,702 --> 00:53:26,142 Liz. 677 00:53:29,502 --> 00:53:30,862 Let me... 678 00:53:36,102 --> 00:53:37,662 Let me love her. 679 00:53:41,422 --> 00:53:43,262 Let me love her, Liz. 680 00:53:48,462 --> 00:53:49,902 Fetch Dr Butts. 681 00:54:07,582 --> 00:54:08,782 It's a fever 682 00:54:10,062 --> 00:54:11,582 I got in Italy. 683 00:54:13,222 --> 00:54:14,742 Is it a snake? 684 00:54:20,022 --> 00:54:22,102 Let's say it is. 685 00:54:22,182 --> 00:54:23,302 Hmm. 686 00:54:27,062 --> 00:54:28,542 If I'm dying, 687 00:54:31,862 --> 00:54:33,302 get Gregory. 688 00:54:34,742 --> 00:54:35,862 Gregory. 689 00:54:37,462 --> 00:54:39,862 Things I need to tell him. 690 00:55:48,102 --> 00:55:49,342 Slow down, 691 00:55:51,422 --> 00:55:53,022 so I can see how you do it. 692 00:55:53,102 --> 00:55:54,902 I can't slow down. 693 00:55:54,982 --> 00:55:58,022 If I stop to think how I'm doing it, I won't be able to do it. 694 00:56:51,182 --> 00:56:53,982 Itinerary for the King's summer progress. 695 00:56:55,702 --> 00:56:59,062 Depart Windsor, then to Reading, 696 00:57:00,022 --> 00:57:02,582 Missenden, Abingdon. 697 00:57:03,982 --> 00:57:05,942 We join them at Sudeley. 698 00:57:06,822 --> 00:57:08,182 If we leave on the 18th... 699 00:57:08,262 --> 00:57:10,742 Leave a day earlier, for the roads. 700 00:57:11,382 --> 00:57:12,382 Yes. 701 00:57:13,462 --> 00:57:15,782 Gloucester, then to Thornbury. 702 00:57:15,862 --> 00:57:18,182 Iron Acton, Bromham. 703 00:57:20,782 --> 00:57:22,542 It's late September. 704 00:57:24,302 --> 00:57:26,862 Winchester, Bishop's Waltham. 705 00:57:36,382 --> 00:57:37,382 Sir? 706 00:57:44,742 --> 00:57:47,182 Before Bromham, add another. 707 00:57:48,582 --> 00:57:49,902 Yes? 708 00:57:52,222 --> 00:57:53,662 Early September. 709 00:57:54,822 --> 00:57:56,302 Five days. 710 00:57:58,662 --> 00:58:00,142 Wolf Hall. 711 00:58:24,982 --> 00:58:25,982 Sir John. 712 00:58:26,422 --> 00:58:28,502 Majesty. Welcome. 713 00:58:29,862 --> 00:58:32,302 Lost my hat, riding here. 714 00:58:32,382 --> 00:58:34,902 I'll send servants to find it, Your Highness.