1 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,959 WHISTLES 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,479 Come out, dog. 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:13,800 FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 4 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,000 So, Master Cromwell. 5 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,320 William Popley tells me I might find a use for you. 6 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,879 Where are you from? Putney. Left when I was a boy. 7 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,439 Your father? Blacksmith. 8 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,279 Ah! At last. 9 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,199 A man born in a more lowly state than myself. 10 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,440 CHUCKLES 11 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,680 What it is to serve a prince. 12 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,920 The wisest, gentlest prince in Christendom. 13 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,480 I'll not hear a word against Henry from any man. 14 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,479 Don't you think it's something about the English? 15 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,599 They cannot see a great man set up, but they have to pull him down. 16 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,080 It's not the English. 17 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,640 It's just people. 18 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,239 QUIET MEWING 19 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,599 A cat has had her litter here in my rooms. 20 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,919 Cor! 21 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:40,559 Look at it! 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,239 Black as the devil. 23 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,240 Born...right here, under my very bed. 24 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,800 How's that for a bad omen before a journey? 25 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,399 Then you shouldn't leave. 26 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,079 Marry, Thomas. 27 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,640 The King wants me gone. 28 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,120 He wants to humiliate me. 29 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,960 He thinks it sends a sharp message to the Pope. 30 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,200 I feel like Catherine. 31 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,840 Cast off. 32 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,240 But still I love him. 33 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,600 Do you think it's true? The mistake was being too proud? 34 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,279 See, I remember when he used to say, "The King will do such-and-such." 35 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,440 And then it was, "WE will do such-and-such." 36 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,600 Now it's, "This is what I will do." 37 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,280 No. No. 38 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,240 The mistake was making an enemy of Anne Boleyn. 39 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,720 This is a tactical retreat. Not a surrender. 40 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:59,239 Those two. 41 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,879 Will you come north? 42 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,239 Mm-hm. I'll come fetch you. 43 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,040 Soon as he summons you back. And he will. 44 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:21,760 God bless you, mine own entirely beloved Cromwell. 45 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:36,960 Thomas. 46 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,280 W-When I'm gone. 47 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,519 I know. 48 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,560 I know what people are saying. 49 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,119 That I'm working for myself now. 50 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,359 That I've been bought out. 51 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,359 If you came and spoke to him, any doubts that he had... 52 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,960 I'm needed here. 53 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,680 To protect him. To persuade the King. 54 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,840 He likes me, George. 55 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,520 I feel it. 56 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,999 And when I have his ear, 57 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,800 the Cardinal will be recalled, I promise you. 58 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,559 I swear to be a true and faithful councillor 59 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,319 to the King's Majesty as one of his Highness's Privy Council. 60 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,079 I swear to be a true and faithful councillor to the 61 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,200 King's Majesty as one of his Highness's Privy Council. 62 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:58,320 Thomas. 63 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,000 He's coming, my lord. 64 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,639 Where...? 65 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,759 Where is he? 66 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,399 You know Cromwell, my lord. 67 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,400 If he says he'll come, he'll be here. 68 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,639 I shall not know or understand of any manner thing to be 69 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,919 attempted against His Majesty's person. 70 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,359 I shall not know or understand of any manner thing 71 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,320 to be attempted against His Majesty's person. 72 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,160 MUSIC PLAYS 73 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,999 Go on, Call-Me. Go on. 74 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,279 I don't want to do it. Stop it. 75 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:38,360 Go on. 76 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:49,760 MUSIC CHANGES, WOODWIND PLAYS 77 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,760 He's all right, isn't he? 78 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,160 AUDIENCE: Ah! 79 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,000 COOING, APPLAUSE 80 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,719 Long live the King! 81 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,199 CHEERING 82 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,199 WOLSEY: We understand princes are not like other men. 83 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,759 They have to hide from themselves 84 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,600 so they're not dazzled by their own light. 85 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,639 Henry will take the credit for all your good ideas 86 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,239 and you the blame for his bad ones. 87 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,840 When fortune turns against you, you will feel the lash. 88 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:35,920 I know this. 89 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,079 I created him. 90 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,399 MUSIC RESUMES 91 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,600 RHYTHMIC CLAPPING 92 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,399 Too old for such games. 93 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:01,919 Disguises. 94 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,439 Their astonishment was complete, Your Majesty. 95 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,320 No other prince in Europe could have carried off such a subterfuge. 96 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:17,320 Your Majesty, Lady Mary's returned to court. 97 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,200 Let her remain at Hunsdon for the present. 98 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,120 News of her capitulation should have time to reach Europe. 99 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,479 And I want to see evidence of her supposed 100 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,520 obedience before she returns. 101 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:35,480 Draw up a list of suitors. 102 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,400 We should find a prince for her before her bloom fades entirely. 103 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,840 My niece, Lady Margaret, should also look to a marriage. 104 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,200 She is a great prize being now so near the throne. 105 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:56,520 Make a note. 106 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,159 Good luck with that, Crumb. 107 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,359 Finding a foreigner we can trust for either of them. 108 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,159 Or pick an Englishman and then, Christ, 109 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,879 the pretension...in one family, 110 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,440 and the resentment in all the others. 111 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:27,440 Sir, I am going to Whitehall. 112 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,559 Do you trust him? 113 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,520 Gardiner's pupil? 114 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,999 You don't trust anyone, do you? 115 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,040 JINGLING 116 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,720 We all need second chances, Fitz. 117 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,679 The drawings for Holbein, Christophe? 118 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:01,559 Yes, master. 119 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,159 Thank you. 120 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,400 Come. 121 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,319 Now you are a lord, do you wish me to paint you again? 122 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,079 No, I'm content with what you did before. 123 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,639 I thought I'd have a whole wall of portraits. 124 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,999 Past kings of England. 125 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,960 How far do you wish to go back? 126 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,480 Back before Harry who conquered France. 127 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,320 You wish to include those that were murdered? 128 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,599 If there's room. Ah. 129 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,400 When you come home from the court, they will greet you. 130 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,640 They will say, "God bless you, Thomas!" 131 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:43,679 Ah, so. No, er, wait. 132 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,319 I want to send a gift to Lady Mary. 133 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,399 I thought perhaps a...a ring 134 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,319 engraved with proverbs praising obedience. 135 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,520 Sir. Sir, I have made... 136 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,599 Why not a pendant instead? 137 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,360 Or a medal? You could get in more good advice that way. 138 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,520 A ring is more of a... 139 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:13,680 ..a promise, isn't it? 140 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,640 Well, give it some thought. 141 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:26,319 Now you are a rich man, I charge you rich man's rates. Oh. 142 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,360 FOOTSTEPS RECEDE 143 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,599 Sir. Sir, I have made pressing enquiries 144 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,439 among Lady Margaret's folk. 145 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:34,639 Why? 146 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,959 Why? Well, I have been sure this long while that there is 147 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:38,759 something amiss with her. 148 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,919 Her, um...furtive manner, as if she's afraid 149 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,759 some mischief might be found out. 150 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,359 And also I've noticed in your 151 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,119 company that she seems to... 152 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:52,199 You thought the ladies were passing secret signs to each other? 153 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,039 Yes, you laughed at me. I did. 154 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,239 CHUCKLES 155 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:56,839 What have you found out? 156 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,280 Don't tell me it's some secret love. 157 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,160 Who is it? 158 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,999 I questioned the Lady Margaret's chaplain and her men Harvey 159 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,120 and Peter, and the boys who see to her horses. 160 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,320 They were not shy to speak. Who is it? 161 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:20,719 Norfolk's half-brother. 162 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,560 Thomas Howard the Lesser. 163 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:26,879 I am told he fancies himself a poet. 164 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,480 Your man, Tom Truth. CHUCKLES 165 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:33,840 Sir. 166 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,799 Something Lady Shelton said to me 167 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:42,480 at Hunston about Norfolk needing to find a new way to the throne. 168 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,879 How could she have contrived to be alone with him? 169 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,600 They must have had some help. 170 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:51,960 Oh, yes, I'll leave the women to you, sir. 171 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,800 We'll talk to Lady Margaret first. 172 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,879 How? How are you informed? 173 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:01,200 By your own people. 174 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,279 And what have the servants told Your Lordship? 175 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,799 I was informed that Lady Margaret had resorted to the 176 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,039 company of a gentleman. 177 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,719 Well, whatever you think, you're wrong. 178 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,279 So don't look at me like that. Like how, my lady? 179 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,159 As if I were a harlot! 180 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,639 Because I tell you Thomas Howard and I are married. 181 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,759 Married? In every way. Married. 182 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,039 So you're too late, it's all done. I hope not. 183 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,039 But when you say "in every way married", 184 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,679 I and Mr Wriothesley here, we cannot guess what you mean. 185 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,159 Will you not sit, my lady? 186 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,719 I do well on my feet, Lord Cromwell. 187 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,159 Let's set the facts down. 188 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,959 You have not right to cast doubt upon my word. 189 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,559 Take me to see my uncle, the King. 190 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,359 You're better off with me, my lady, in the first instance, 191 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,639 since you and Lord Thomas have pledged yourselves without 192 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,799 the King's permission or knowledge. 193 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,079 The date of your pledge was... What does the date matter? 194 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,239 WRITING SCRATCHES 195 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,159 I've loved Lord Thomas a year and more. 196 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,999 You cannot part us when we are joined by God. 197 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,639 My Lady Richmond here will bear out what I say. 198 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,359 She knows all. Had it not been for her help, 199 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,960 we should never enjoyed our bliss. You kept watch for them, my lady. 200 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,640 Witnessed their pledge? 201 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:05,959 No. 202 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,919 So, no-one was in fact present 203 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,960 when these words were spoken? 204 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,159 But I do have a witness. Mary Shelton stood outside the door. 205 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,360 Outside? Ah, you can't really call that a witness, can you? 206 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,479 Well, you exchanged gifts, yes? 207 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:23,879 He has given me a ring. 208 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,079 A ring is not a pledge. 209 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,479 Now, you told me that Lord Thomas visited you 210 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:30,119 in the Queen's chambers. 211 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,399 So over the months, in that very popular, busy place, you were drawn 212 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,079 into some conversation. 213 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,879 Lord Thomas, who admires you, quite naturally, he said, 214 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,399 "My lady, if you were not far, far above me and intended by the King 215 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,479 "for some great prince, I swear I would beg..." 216 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,319 Yes, that is exactly how it was, Lord Cromwell. 217 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,759 Is it? "I would beg your hand in marriage." 218 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,279 Now, you said, of course you did, "My lord, I am forbidden you. 219 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,719 "I see your pain but I cannot assuage it." No! 220 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,479 No, you are the wrong. We are pledged. 221 00:15:58,480 --> 00:15:59,679 You will not part us. 222 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,039 For the love of Christ, sit down, Meg... He will not... 223 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,199 ..and try to comprehend what the Lord Privy Seal is telling you. 224 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,919 He is trying to help us. 225 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,719 He cannot part what God has joined. 226 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,639 Yes, and I'm sure Lord Cromwell has been told that before. 227 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:13,799 Hmm. 228 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,360 We have to ask ourselves, don't we, Lady Margaret, what marriage is. 229 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,079 It's not just vows, is it? 230 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:22,679 It's bed work. 231 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,639 If there'd been promises, and witnesses, and then bed, 232 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,479 you are fast married. Your contract is good. 233 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,319 You will be called Mistress Truth 234 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,359 and you will live with the King's extreme displeasure. 235 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,119 What form that will take, I can't tell. 236 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:38,519 My uncle will not punish me. 237 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,439 He loves me as he loves his own daughter. 238 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,080 As he loves his own daughter? 239 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:47,759 No. 240 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,879 No, my marriage is not a crime. 241 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,799 Not yet, but I'm sure it will be. 242 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,119 Meg, nothing occurred between you 243 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:55,719 and Lord Thomas of an unchaste nature. 244 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,760 You will say that and you will stick to it. 245 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,319 You have good a good counsellor 246 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,240 in your friend, Lady Margaret. 247 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,079 Well, I certainly wouldn't like to be in Norfolk's shoes. 248 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,999 No. First his niece disgraces him and now his half-brother. 249 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,399 Mm-hm. You could easily pull him down now, if you wanted to. 250 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,239 BELL TOLLS Careful, master. 251 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:24,319 Sir. 252 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,399 Norfolk will never be your ally. 253 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,679 Work his discredit now with the King, my lord. 254 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,119 Destroy him. 255 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:34,439 The chance, it may not come again. 256 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,879 Those are not my methods, Call-Me. 257 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,879 And I'd beware of putting the King in the killing vein, 258 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:41,880 if I were you. Hup. 259 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,360 BELLOWS: She defies me! 260 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,839 Giving herself to the first man who writes her a verse. 261 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,560 Giving what was MINE to give. 262 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,479 And Norfolk and these knave Howards. 263 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,719 I'll warrant our Tom Truth was not 264 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,799 so passionate before my niece stepped closer to the throne! 265 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,040 This whole business must be kept... 266 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,599 QUIETLY: This whole business must be kept quiet. 267 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,719 I want no repeat of what happened to the Queen, as was, 268 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,639 a royal lady before a public court. 269 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,079 Europe will be scandalised. 270 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,560 Choose some neater way. 271 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,399 Riche is drafting a bill in Parliament 272 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,800 so there'll be a formal process. 273 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,640 I shall speak to the ladies who were in attendance at the time. 274 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,880 As for Truth, draw up a charge of treason against him. 275 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:52,120 I want it recorded in the indictment that he was inspired by the devil. 276 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,160 Unless, of course, it was our lord of Norfolk. 277 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:04,960 One of his little schemes? 278 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,680 Anne had a lot of clothes... 279 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,400 I remember sewing this one in. 280 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,440 You remember Master Secretary, sister. 281 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,839 Although he is now Lord Privy Seal. 282 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:51,880 Instead? 283 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,959 As well, my lady. 284 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,039 It is he who does everything in England. 285 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,680 I never understood that until one of the ambassadors explained it to me. 286 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,479 He says the King will flog him on to work until one day his legs 287 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,599 go from under him... 288 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,079 ..and he rolls in a ditch and dies. 289 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,159 Well, until that happy day, Majesty, I have a request for you, 290 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,039 which perhaps you will not like. 291 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,240 I must invite ladies who served the late Queen back to the court. 292 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,399 I have questions concerning the alleged 293 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,079 marriage of Lady Margaret Douglas. 294 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,559 Jane, you don't want Lady Rochford near you, surely. 295 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,159 She's a traitor's wife, 296 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,440 and she joined with the Boleyns in mocking you. 297 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,759 I wonder the King would ask such a thing of you. 298 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,000 Well, he doesn't. 299 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,040 The King never does an unpleasant thing. 300 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,480 Lord Cromwell does it for him. 301 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,119 The King wants to know about Lady Margaret. 302 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:55,399 No, he doesn't. 303 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,719 Why would he want to know his niece is ruined? 304 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,799 One must pity him. 305 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,679 His friends cuckolding him, 306 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,919 his daughter defying him, 307 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,360 his niece contracting herself in marriage without his permission. 308 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,880 And you, using him so roughly. 309 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,519 How roughly? I gave the King what he asked for. 310 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:17,560 Yes. 311 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,480 I wonder, will he ever forgive you for it? 312 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,439 I urge you, Lady Rochford, to forget all this. 313 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,199 Be jocund, pleasant, adapt yourself to the new queen, 314 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,240 or you will be sent away again. 315 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,879 I suppose he can do the deed with pasty Jane, can he? 316 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,759 I don't envy her these nights. 317 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,039 Anne said it was like being slobbered over by a mastiff pup. 318 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,360 SHE SHUDDERS 319 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,080 Have you got them? Sir. 320 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,040 DOOR OPENS 321 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,680 Thank you, Martin. 322 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:12,999 Sir. 323 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,639 SHOUT FROM OUTSIDE: Quiet there! 324 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:20,039 Mm-hm. "She knoweth my love of long time meant. 325 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,600 "She knoweth my truth, nothing is hid. 326 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,079 "She knoweth I love in good intent 327 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,800 "as ever man and woman did." 328 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,400 "Nothing is hid." 329 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,719 Have you tupped her? 330 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,480 Oh, for God's sake. 331 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,000 What opportunity with your eyes on us? 332 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,079 Good. 333 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,719 Would you go on, Mr Wriothesley? 334 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,199 I cannot. It's not the handwriting - it's very good - it's just... 335 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,239 ..it's just my tongue. It just refuses to do it. 336 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,679 CLEARS THROAT 337 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,159 "What helpeth hope of happy hap, 338 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:10,559 "When hap...will hap unhappily, 339 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,679 "And thus my hap my hope has turned, 340 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,719 "Clear out of hope into despair." 341 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,399 Pause there. It sounds, if I'm not misunderstanding you, 342 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,239 that you're willing to declare yourself, 343 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,920 even at the risk of a rebuff. 344 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,520 I do not know if I wrote this verse. 345 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,279 You forgot it? As any...As any man of sense would. 346 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,959 But in the fifth stanza there, you write, "Pardon me. 347 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,719 "Pardon me, your man, Tom Truth." 348 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,559 Which you rhyme, unfortunately, with "growth". 349 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,560 Even I know better, and I'm French. 350 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,519 All right, here you ask your lady 351 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,800 to ease you of your pain. 352 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,839 Would it be the pain in your bollocks? 353 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:10,040 The Lady Margaret tell us that there are witnesses to this pledge. 354 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,920 You need not reply in verse. 355 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,600 I know what you do, Cromwell. 356 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,119 But the King will not permit you to ill use a gentleman. 357 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,079 I would not try my Lord Cromwell's patience. 358 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,240 He once broke a man's jaw with a single blow. 359 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,840 Believe me, my lord, we understand your situation. 360 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,279 You are of a great family. 361 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,599 A great family but you younger Howards are kept poor. 362 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:53,559 Being of exalted blood, you cannot soil your hands with any occupation. 363 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,639 Do you understand, Christophe? 364 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:01,479 So, you say to yourself, "Here I am, I'm a man of great quality. 365 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,919 "I, I... But I'm penniless. 366 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,839 "No-one regards me, other than to confuse me with my elder brother. 367 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,239 "I know what I'll do... 368 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,119 "I'll marry the King's niece. 369 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,999 "That'll pay, because odds-on then 370 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,080 "I'll be King of England one day." 371 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,079 You see, I wonder who might have put that 372 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,400 treacherous rhyme into your mind. 373 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,280 I'm hoping you bring news of my return to court, my lord. 374 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,119 The King suggests you join him after the Queen's coronation, my lady. 375 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,719 Why? 376 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,519 I don't understand. 377 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,120 I signed your paper. Why must I still be shut up here? 378 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,559 When you return, you shall have everything that was promised. 379 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:36,880 Be patient, Mary. 380 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,279 You're not uncomfortable here, I hope? 381 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:42,400 MARY SCOFFS 382 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,880 When is it to be? 383 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,679 The coronation. 384 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,400 After All Hallows. 385 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,000 Perhaps. 386 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,039 Or perhaps there will be no coronation 387 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,440 until after the Queen is with child. 388 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,000 Meanwhile, I hear I am to be married. 389 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,599 No doubt you are considering the Duke of Orleans 390 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,360 or Dom Luis of Portugal. 391 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,400 It is not your wish to be married? 392 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,080 It is not. 393 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,680 But I have promised to obey. 394 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,120 I would like a child. 395 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,640 Of my own. 396 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,760 But I am my mother's daughter. 397 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,799 What hopes can I have when so many of my brothers and sisters 398 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,240 failed to thrive? 399 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,239 Do you see? 400 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,279 Hardly fitting, is it? 401 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,239 "The Court of Augmentations"? 402 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,319 We're sharing it with the mice. 403 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,199 The King wants the monasteries broken up, Riche. 404 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,200 He's not interested in your accommodation problems. 405 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,640 Look at this. 406 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,280 I would like a child. 407 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,000 Of my own. 408 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,360 It's a pity. 409 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:58,560 What is? 410 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,280 Nothing, Father. 411 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,800 No. Speak, Gregory. Please, speak. 412 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,359 It is a pity that the monasteries should close 413 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,560 and the poor get nothing. 414 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,159 It's unlikely the King would wish or ever imagine the pauper 415 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,080 to lay his head where jolly Father Abbot once reposed. 416 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,480 So it all goes to Henry. Not all. 417 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,399 Some of the King's subjects still believe that Rome will rise 418 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,479 again. Once these lands are given away to the King 419 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,119 and to his gentlemen, they'll never return to the Church. 420 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,360 Prayers. Prayers can be rewritten, but not leases. 421 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,239 And then we'll have change. 422 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,519 Gregory, change. 423 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:01,840 Do you understand? 424 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,679 The English will discover God in daylight, not hidden in a cloud 425 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,359 of incense. They'll hear His word in their own language 426 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,439 from a minister who faces them, not turning his back and muttering 427 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,680 in some obscure foreign tongue. 428 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:27,639 The poor will have good-living clergy who counsel the ignorant 429 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,919 and help the unfortunate. 430 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,679 Not these half-literate monks playing knucklebones for farthings, 431 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,719 trying to look up women's skirts. 432 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,799 And after many generations, long after I'm gone, 433 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,080 the memory will be blotted out. 434 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,039 HE CHUCKLES 435 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,279 No-one will ever believe the poor once bowed and scraped 436 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,320 to stocks of wood and prayed to lumps of plaster. 437 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,400 Riche. 438 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,559 I want to go to Shaftesbury. The abbey. 439 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,199 Arrange a visit. 440 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,160 Well, that's a great house. It won't come down yet. 441 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,160 Do we have plans for the big houses? Is that why we're going? 442 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,480 My God! 443 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,760 The revenue we could collect from them! 444 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:44,520 Empty-handed? 445 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,239 I remember when you used to bring us ladies cakes, 446 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,079 but that was before you were so busy. 447 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,240 It was you I brought them for. 448 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,359 And when the Queen was displeased with you, 449 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,360 she threw them on the floor. HE CHUCKLES 450 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:24,600 This was hers. 451 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,360 Anne Boleyn's. 452 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,080 She and the King passed it between them. 453 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,480 He's written an inscription. 454 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,640 Under the Man of Sorrows. 455 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,280 It's in French. I can't read it. 456 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,600 It says, "I am yours. Forever." 457 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:58,400 Hmm. 458 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,800 Look at the Annunciation earlier. 459 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,080 There's a reply. 460 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:20,920 "By daily proof you shall me find to be to you both loving and kind." 461 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,160 Do you think she was...kind to him? 462 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,600 Not often. 463 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,439 She had hope of a son in those days. 464 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,640 She thought she could bear a son. 465 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,160 You wanted to see me? 466 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:54,560 Mm. 467 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,880 My ladies say that if a wife does not take pleasure in the act... 468 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,840 ..then she will not get a child. 469 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,240 Is that true? 470 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,359 Perhaps you should consult with your lady mother, Your Grace? 471 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,639 Or one of the dames at court here might advise you. 472 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,560 They have forgotten. They are old. 473 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,640 Your lady sister, then? She has two fine infants. 474 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,719 Bess put heart into me. She said... 475 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:43,000 "Say an Ave, Jane, and the King will soon spend." 476 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,560 She says she did not take pleasure in her own marriage bed. 477 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,079 With her late husband, it was like a military manoeuvre. 478 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,999 Brisk. 479 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,520 HE LAUGHS 480 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,319 He did not beat the drum, I hope! 481 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:00,879 No, no. 482 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,239 But she always knew when he was on his way. 483 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:04,600 Mm-hm. 484 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,119 The infants will come when they will, she says, 485 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,560 pleasure or not. 486 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,880 Perhaps I should not have asked you. 487 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,119 If you're going to the King now, you'll see that he's wearing 488 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:27,879 his Turkish costume again. 489 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,760 He does not feel he wore it enough at the festivities. 490 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,520 My father said that Turkish princes can have a dozen wives. 491 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,119 If the King had been of their sect, 492 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,199 he could have been married to the late Queen, God rest her, 493 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,519 and to Catherine, God rest her, 494 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,199 and at the same time to me, if he wished. 495 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,559 Or for that matter, 496 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,239 he could have been married to Mary Boleyn and Mary Shelton, 497 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,080 and had all the sons he wished. 498 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,560 If he'd have been of their sect. 499 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,040 I do not think the King will turn Turk. 500 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,719 Try to be surprised when you see him in his costume. 501 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:19,199 SHE CHUCKLES 502 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,120 CHATTER AND LAUGHTER 503 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,000 Aha! 504 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,679 Well, I was hoping to astonish you, 505 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,279 but I see the Queen has prepared you. 506 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,479 I don't think she meant to spoil it, sir. 507 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,079 You don't think I've married a fool, do you? 508 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,800 She seems not to understand even ordinary things. 509 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,919 The Queen is of that chastened spirit, sir, 510 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,799 that never presumes to understand her betters. 511 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,479 I believe the ambassadors think she is plain. 512 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,680 Chapuys is no judge of women. 513 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,279 Why have I sent for you? 514 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,519 Your lady sister has written from Scotland, 515 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,879 begging that her daughter, Lady Margaret's life, might be spared. 516 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,599 My niece is a shame and a disgrace. 517 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:17,759 I ask myself, sir, when a word is given lightly in haste 518 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:23,000 by a young person and under the intoxication of love... 519 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,960 ..does God, in his wisdom, not wink at such a promise? 520 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,839 There are great lords and rash young women who have cause 521 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,199 to be grateful to you, my Lord Cromwell. 522 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,000 CROMWELL CHUCKLES 523 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,639 Ah. 524 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:52,680 I, um... 525 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,759 I wanted to ask Your Majesty's permission 526 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,720 that I might give this to the Lady Mary. 527 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,199 "In praise of obedience." 528 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,879 Very apt. 529 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,520 And do you think my daughter will take the point? 530 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,959 HE CHUCKLES Obedience. 531 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,719 You'd be better giving this to my cousin Pole, 532 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:35,279 who has been called to Rome, I hear. 533 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,279 The Pope has charged him to lead a crusade against me. 534 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,599 He is to visit the French court and stir them into action. 535 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,639 The French will do nothing for him. 536 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,880 He is a traitor and an ingrate. 537 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,600 And I want him dead. 538 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,280 Means can be found. 539 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:58,280 In Italy, wherever Pole goes, my people follow. 540 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:03,760 Do what you must. 541 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,079 You know, I like this so much, I think I will give it 542 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,520 to Mary myself. You can find something else, can't you? 543 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,399 I kept them in the box. Yes. You have the keys, Wriothesley. 544 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,680 Rafe! 545 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,040 What is it? 546 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:48,960 Outside. 547 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:05,759 Tell me. 548 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,959 Sir, I cannot think how this has happened, but it seems 549 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,399 that someone has taken letters of yours or memoranda, which were... 550 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,319 This would never have occurred when I oversaw your desk. 551 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,279 I assure you, there is nothing that leaves this house that shouldn't! 552 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,039 Every household has traitors. 553 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,840 For God's sake, what? 554 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,520 Chapuys has possession of some information. 555 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,480 He says that the King has promised the Lady Mary in marriage. 556 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,279 To you. 557 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,479 Yes. Someone has stolen sundry letters 558 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,559 between you and the King's daughter, and they were warm in tone. 559 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:39,839 Does the King know? 560 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,799 Well, if he does not, he is the strange exception, 561 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,759 for the rumour is everywhere. We warned you, sir. 562 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,479 Here, in this garden. 563 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,039 You said you made her mother a...promise. 564 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,719 Well, now it comes home to you. 565 00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:53,039 You cannot believe that I would seek such a match. 566 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,799 It is a potent weapon, sir, for your enemies to turn against you. 567 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,319 Many believe that the husband of Lady Mary will be King one day. 568 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,159 Don't go on spelling it out and spelling it out, Riche! 569 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,159 Any man who offers himself to wed her stands in a treasonable light. 570 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,879 This is my uncle's reward for his kindness. He saved her, 571 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,240 and now they say he did it to serve himself. 572 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,359 Ah, Thomas! 573 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,520 A glass of this excellent Rhenish? 574 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,719 Put it on a sponge. 575 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,439 I'll have it when I'm nailed above London. 576 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,320 I hear I am to be married. 577 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:29,199 My dear Thomas, do you believe I would say such a thing of you? 578 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,039 It would lead to your murder by the noble lords of England, 579 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,279 and then I should have to deal with the Duke of Norfolk 580 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,840 as Chief Minister! HE CHUCKLES 581 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:51,919 But, yes, the rumour is that the King means to bestow his daughter 582 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,479 on an Englishman, and has chosen you. 583 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,119 He has not. He will not. He could not. 584 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,120 He'd rather see Mary dead. 585 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,199 He would have killed her. 586 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,599 You know that, don't you? 587 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,880 We saved him from a terrible crime. 588 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,119 I have only reported what I have heard from honourable 589 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,999 and good men. You cannot hang me for that. 590 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,679 No, but ambassadors have been murdered in the street before. 591 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,680 I...I only report what I've heard from honourable and good men. 592 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,520 The age of persuasion has ended, I think. 593 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,160 We've entered an age of coercion. Hmm. 594 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,880 Be careful, Thomas. 595 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:53,440 I'm going to Shaftesbury. To see Dorothea. 596 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,200 Hmm. 597 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,040 WATER SPLASHES GENTLY 598 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:09,199 It's laughable. You, the second man in the church. And me, who I am, 599 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,480 kept waiting like this. CROMWELL CHUCKLES 600 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:25,519 This place was founded by King Alfred, Christophe. 601 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,080 These nuns, very rich. 602 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,039 So you have come yourself, Lord Cromwell. 603 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,960 You know my face, madam? 604 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,119 One of the gentlemen of the district has a portrait of you. 605 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,359 He keeps it on display. 606 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,840 Did the painter do me justice? 607 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,560 He did you charity. 608 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,559 But you will want to get on. 609 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,440 You claim to have come to see Sister Dorothea, I think? 610 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,520 DISTANT CHURCH BELLS 611 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,680 Why is Richard Riche here? 612 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,480 I understood his business is with houses of lesser value. 613 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,000 We like to keep our figures current. 614 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,760 I give you warning. 615 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,080 And you can carry the warning to the King. 616 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,199 I will not surrender this house. 617 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,600 Not this year, not next, nor any year this side of heaven. 618 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,880 The King has no thought of it. 619 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,160 So this really is the reason you have come? 620 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:10,960 Well... 621 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:16,680 Very well. 622 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,640 Wolsey's daughter. 623 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:11,800 How do you, madam? 624 00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:24,120 I have brought gifts. 625 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,080 I saw you once when you were a little child. 626 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,000 You won't remember me. 627 00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,799 I'm told you wish to continue in this life, 628 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,680 but I think you were very young when you made your vows. 629 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,040 So I can be dispensed? You're free to go. 630 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,880 Go? Where? 631 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,319 Anywhere you wish. 632 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,280 You're welcome in MY house. Live with YOU? 633 00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,199 When Anne Boleyn came down, we believed true religion 634 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,399 would be restored. True religion was never left off. 635 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,959 We hear the sacraments are to be put down, 636 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,600 and that all monks and nuns will be dispersed. 637 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,039 Dame Elizabeth is sure the King will take our house in the end. 638 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,480 Then how would we live? There are no such plans. 639 00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,159 But if they were to occur, you would be pensioned. 640 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:06,000 Having...having met your abbess, I'm sure she would bargain hard. 641 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,280 What will we do without our sisters in religion? 642 00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,479 We cannot go back to our families if our families are dead. 643 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,879 Or even if they're alive, they might not want us. 644 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,319 Dorothea, you're imagining harms that will never touch you. 645 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,800 You have all your life before you. 646 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,479 Clancey left me here under his name, 647 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,919 but everybody knew I was Wolsey's daughter. 648 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:36,479 It was not my choice to come, but no more is it my choice to leave. 649 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,919 I do not wish to be turned out to beg my bread. 650 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,159 I will make you an annuity, or I will find you suitors 651 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,719 if...if you could like marriage? 652 00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:46,439 Marriage? 653 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,639 The bastard daughter of a disgraced priest with no looks? 654 00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,919 Trust me. You're a very lovely young woman. 655 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,839 Once you have clothes and ornaments... 656 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,599 I know the best merchants and I know the fashions. 657 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,279 I'm sure your eye is expert. 658 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,360 Or if you would consider me, I could myself... 659 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:12,879 I will marry you, mistress, if you will have me. 660 00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,040 I am, er... 661 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,680 ..I'm not sure you know this, but I am a long time a widow. 662 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:27,999 I lack the graces of person but I'm rich. Likely to grow richer. 663 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,839 I have good houses. You'd find me generous. 664 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,719 I would like to have more children. 665 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:36,079 Or...yes, or not. 666 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,879 As...as you wish. 667 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:42,919 If you want a marriage in name only so that you have a place 668 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,759 in the world for your father's sake... In name only? 669 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,719 Are you offering to marry me or not? 670 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:51,440 All I mean is that you are alone in the world and so am I. 671 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:57,160 For your father's sake, I would cherish you. 672 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:02,759 And who knows? In time, you might grow fond of me. 673 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:07,439 Or if not, then you have a home and a protector and I w... 674 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,840 I would not ask anything more of you. 675 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,319 It is true you have everything to commend you. 676 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:21,159 If you were a buyer and I were for sale. 677 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,519 You have money to buy any article, 678 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,359 thanks to my father, who gave you your start in life. 679 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,559 It was he who brought you to the King's notice, wasn't it? 680 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,599 With the result that we see. Yes. 681 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:37,279 Dorothea, tell me, what is it you need to make yourself safe 682 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,599 and comfortable? Forget, please, 683 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,200 just forget that I ever spoke of marriage. 684 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:45,639 There's still a way through this, 685 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,239 even if you find my person defective. 686 00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:50,120 Your person is not defective. 687 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,119 At least not so defective as your nature and your deeds. 688 00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,439 I see, I see. 689 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,879 I think it is my religion you do not like. 690 00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,799 I love the gospel. 691 00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,279 I follow it. I will always follow it. 692 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:06,559 Your father understood that. 693 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,319 My father understood everything. 694 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,440 He understood you betrayed him. 695 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:16,279 When my father was in exile and forced to go north, 696 00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:19,719 he wrote certain letters out of his desperation 697 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:21,879 to have the King's favour again. 698 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,519 Letters begging the King of France to intercede for him. 699 00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,839 You saw to it that those letters reached the Duke of Norfolk. 700 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,959 You put upon them an evil construction 701 00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,719 which they should never have borne, 702 00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:34,559 and Norfolk put them into the hand of the King 703 00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,719 and so the damage was done. You are much mistaken. 704 00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:38,959 You had your men in my father's household in the north. 705 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,079 Do you deny it? They were there to help him, to... 706 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,639 They were there to spy on him, to provoke him into rash statements, 707 00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,999 which your master, the Duke, then shaped into treason. 708 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,159 Jesus. You think Norfolk is my master? 709 00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,999 I was servant only to your father. Who told you this? 710 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,599 How long have you believed this? 711 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:57,079 I have always believed it and always shall, whatever denial you make. 712 00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,999 So if I brought proof that you're wrong, written proof that... 713 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,239 Forgery is among your talents, I hear. 714 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:04,879 You hear too much and you listen to the wrong people. 715 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,399 You're angry. 716 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:07,839 Innocence is tranquil. 717 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,639 Yes, but if you... If... 718 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,079 Pardon me, but if you have this fixed opinion and you hold on 719 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:18,199 to it just regardless of evidence or regardless of reason, 720 00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,759 how am I to oppose it? I would swear on something... 721 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,359 I would know you were a perjurer. 722 00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:28,439 I have been told, by those I trust, 723 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,000 there is no faith or truth in Cromwell. 724 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:50,800 When those you trust abandon you, Dorothea... 725 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,520 ..come to me. 726 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,840 I loved your father next to God. 727 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:02,960 I will never refuse you. 728 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:09,000 Take this with you. These books, whatever they are. 729 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,160 FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 730 00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:22,960 Master? 731 00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,079 Master? 732 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,680 Are you well, my lord? 733 00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,799 You don't, er... 734 00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,760 You don't think I betrayed... 735 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,440 ..betrayed the Cardinal, do you, Riche? 736 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:53,360 Never crossed my mind. 737 00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,320 You didn't, did you? 738 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:01,280 I don't know. 739 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,800 I should have gone up to Yorkshire with him, I think. 740 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,200 I should have been with him when he died. 741 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,119 I shouldn't have let the King get in my way. 742 00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,520 DISTANT CHURCH BELLS 743 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,240 My lord... 744 00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,520 ..the King is not in our way. 745 00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:32,960 He IS our way. 746 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,720 Is it true? 747 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,679 Who could have convinced her I betrayed her father 748 00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,560 except her father himself? 749 00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,560 No, I cannot believe that. 750 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,039 Surely he knew your devotion? 751 00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:31,760 I always thought so. 752 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,199 I pulled down the men who insulted him. I married them to crimes 753 00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,239 they could barely imagine. 754 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,640 I held George Boleyn when he wept, called on Jesus. 755 00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:48,799 I heard the boy Smeaton whimpering, crying for mercy 756 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,199 behind the locked door and I made to go down and free him. 757 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,840 Then I thought, "No, boy, now it's your turn to suffer." 758 00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:02,760 I put myself in hazard for my master in every way. My house. All I had. 759 00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,600 If I ever treated with Norfolk, it was only to speak for the Cardinal. 760 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,559 I didn't like Thomas Howard then, and I don't like him now. 761 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:15,360 I was never his man and never will be. 762 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,439 You counselled me. 763 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,359 You said, "Let the Cardinal go." And now he's prised away from me, 764 00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,040 whether I will or no. 765 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:34,040 You can persuade the quick, Rafe, to think again. 766 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:42,760 How do you remake your reputation with the dead?