1 00:03:23,330 --> 00:03:24,665 Majesty- 2 00:03:46,604 --> 00:03:49,106 {\an8}I will have no married priests. 3 00:03:52,109 --> 00:03:55,112 {\an8}Your Majesty, my Lord Hertford desires an audience. 4 00:04:06,373 --> 00:04:07,499 {\an8}Hertford. 5 00:04:07,666 --> 00:04:10,377 {\an8}Your Majesty, we have received news from France. 6 00:04:11,545 --> 00:04:14,590 {\an8}The Earl of Surrey, while rashly attacking a French supply force... 7 00:04:14,757 --> 00:04:16,925 {\an8}at St. Étienne, just beyond Boulogne... 8 00:04:17,092 --> 00:04:22,264 {\an8}has lost over 600 men as well as all the captains and gentlemen... 9 00:04:22,431 --> 00:04:25,726 {\an8}who for some reason, he had placed in the front line. 10 00:04:43,869 --> 00:04:46,413 My Lords, I have heard from several sources... 11 00:04:46,580 --> 00:04:49,041 of the calamitous events in Boulogne. 12 00:04:49,583 --> 00:04:53,754 It seems my Lord Surrey gave battle to a large convoy of French... 13 00:04:53,921 --> 00:04:55,589 and was soundly defeated... 14 00:04:56,090 --> 00:04:58,133 with the death of his captains... 15 00:04:58,967 --> 00:05:00,886 and most of his gentlemen. 16 00:05:01,428 --> 00:05:04,515 And all of this despite my warnings not to be bold... 17 00:05:04,682 --> 00:05:06,308 and place Boulogne at risk. 18 00:05:07,518 --> 00:05:11,271 Therefore, I have commanded my Lord Surrey to return here... 19 00:05:11,438 --> 00:05:14,775 to be examined as to his conduct by your Lordships. 20 00:05:15,609 --> 00:05:18,320 In the meantime, I will appoint you... 21 00:05:18,487 --> 00:05:20,948 my Lord Hertford, as his replacement. 22 00:05:21,115 --> 00:05:22,950 You will leave at once for Boulogne. 23 00:05:24,159 --> 00:05:28,622 I have also decided, for his many great works and talents... 24 00:05:28,789 --> 00:05:32,292 to appoint my secretary, Mr. Risley, Lord Chancellor... 25 00:05:33,627 --> 00:05:35,462 and to create him Baron Risley. 26 00:05:36,588 --> 00:05:42,136 I am touched and deeply honoured by Your Majesty's trust. 27 00:05:43,387 --> 00:05:44,471 My Lord Suffolk? 28 00:05:44,638 --> 00:05:47,599 Majesty, there are rumours of a large French fleet... 29 00:05:47,766 --> 00:05:50,352 being assembled and fitted out for war. 30 00:05:51,645 --> 00:05:55,315 Also, the emperor has ordered all English ships and properties... 31 00:05:55,482 --> 00:05:57,818 in the Low Countries to be seized. 32 00:05:58,402 --> 00:06:00,195 How shall we respond? 33 00:06:01,405 --> 00:06:03,031 The emperor. 34 00:06:03,991 --> 00:06:05,659 My God. 35 00:06:06,326 --> 00:06:09,288 When I think of my fidelity to my friends... 36 00:06:09,830 --> 00:06:11,832 and all of their betrayals. 37 00:06:15,586 --> 00:06:17,212 Fleet being amassed... 38 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,340 My Lord. - My Lord Hertford. 39 00:06:21,675 --> 00:06:23,010 My Lord Hertford. 40 00:06:23,177 --> 00:06:24,428 Excellency. 41 00:06:24,595 --> 00:06:27,681 May we speak a moment privately? 42 00:06:34,730 --> 00:06:35,773 Well? 43 00:06:35,939 --> 00:06:39,860 It seems, alas, that many things are amiss in His Majesty's kingdom. 44 00:06:40,652 --> 00:06:41,904 What things? 45 00:06:42,070 --> 00:06:45,908 The bad harvests and the burden of His Majesty's debts. 46 00:06:46,074 --> 00:06:49,286 The plague among the sailors of His Majesty's fleet... 47 00:06:49,453 --> 00:06:52,039 with their swollen heads and decayed ships. 48 00:06:52,206 --> 00:06:54,458 Pray, Excellency, what is your point? 49 00:06:55,042 --> 00:06:59,421 The poisoning and the poverty of the king's realm... 50 00:06:59,588 --> 00:07:01,882 is in every way due to his rash... 51 00:07:02,049 --> 00:07:05,385 and unsustainable occupation of Boulogne. 52 00:07:06,011 --> 00:07:08,138 As your Lordship had warned. 53 00:07:11,391 --> 00:07:14,561 It is true that I argued against the war. 54 00:07:14,728 --> 00:07:16,730 But I lost the argument. 55 00:07:16,897 --> 00:07:18,899 You lost the argument for war, my lord. 56 00:07:19,066 --> 00:07:20,776 You can win it for peace. 57 00:07:23,237 --> 00:07:27,449 Persuade the king of his folly in hanging onto Boulogne... 58 00:07:27,616 --> 00:07:29,952 against all reason... 59 00:07:31,453 --> 00:07:34,081 and you and I may come to some agreement. 60 00:07:36,959 --> 00:07:38,001 My lord. 61 00:07:38,168 --> 00:07:39,253 Mr. Risley. - Your Grace. 62 00:07:39,419 --> 00:07:41,588 You are to be congratulated. 63 00:07:41,755 --> 00:07:43,340 Thank you, Your Grace... 64 00:07:43,507 --> 00:07:47,594 though I confess I find this sudden elevation beyond my imagining. 65 00:07:47,761 --> 00:07:50,806 No, but you must imagine it. 66 00:07:50,973 --> 00:07:53,267 And take great pleasure in it, as we do. 67 00:07:53,433 --> 00:07:56,937 For surely this must mean that our cause is in the ascendancy... 68 00:07:57,104 --> 00:07:59,940 and that His Majesty tends ever for firmly towards... 69 00:08:00,107 --> 00:08:04,236 the orthodox and Catholic persuasion, and against reform. 70 00:08:04,778 --> 00:08:07,739 Well, I trust Your Grace is right. 71 00:08:07,906 --> 00:08:09,825 For my own part... 72 00:08:09,992 --> 00:08:12,995 I still find the king so changeable... 73 00:08:13,161 --> 00:08:16,123 I wonder if he knows his own mind. 74 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:20,460 Henry. 75 00:08:20,878 --> 00:08:23,213 Father. - Come here. 76 00:08:24,548 --> 00:08:27,009 It's good to see you back at court. I've missed you. 77 00:08:30,178 --> 00:08:32,723 You remember Brigitte? - Yes, of course. 78 00:08:34,141 --> 00:08:36,644 Bonjour, Henry. I am very happy to see you again. 79 00:08:42,149 --> 00:08:45,903 Mademoiselle Rousselot is now my official mistress. 80 00:08:46,278 --> 00:08:49,281 I'm sorry to hear that her presence at court makes your mother... 81 00:08:49,448 --> 00:08:51,950 the duchess, unhappy. But there is no help for it. 82 00:08:52,117 --> 00:08:55,162 For your mother has made me unhappy for a long time. 83 00:08:55,329 --> 00:08:56,371 Poor Henry. 84 00:08:56,538 --> 00:08:58,957 No. He is old enough to know the truth... 85 00:08:59,791 --> 00:09:02,419 and guess other things about love. 86 00:09:03,503 --> 00:09:06,131 Mademoiselle, if you make my father happy... 87 00:09:06,298 --> 00:09:08,550 then you have also made me happy. 88 00:09:09,343 --> 00:09:11,970 See? He is older and wiser than he looks. 89 00:09:12,137 --> 00:09:13,805 So are you. 90 00:09:13,972 --> 00:09:16,224 Right, drinks. 91 00:09:20,979 --> 00:09:23,023 How is Your Majesty? 92 00:09:23,190 --> 00:09:26,360 I tell you this, Cate: I felt 10 times better in France... 93 00:09:26,526 --> 00:09:29,196 than I have these past years since. 94 00:09:30,572 --> 00:09:34,826 What I hate above everything are the interpretations. 95 00:09:34,993 --> 00:09:37,537 It doesn't seem to matter who I talk to at court... 96 00:09:37,704 --> 00:09:42,250 ambassadors, clerics, courtiers... 97 00:09:43,377 --> 00:09:47,047 they all interpret the facts to suit themselves. 98 00:09:47,297 --> 00:09:49,299 For myself, God knows, I've always spoken... 99 00:09:49,466 --> 00:09:50,884 with candour and honesty. 100 00:09:51,259 --> 00:09:56,723 But all about me now is guile, hypocrisy, and dishonesty. 101 00:10:01,311 --> 00:10:03,814 Your Majesty, I have written a book. 102 00:10:04,773 --> 00:10:06,108 May I show it to you? 103 00:10:06,274 --> 00:10:09,403 A book? What kind of book? 104 00:10:11,863 --> 00:10:15,117 It's called Lamentations of a Sinner. 105 00:10:15,283 --> 00:10:16,743 Majesty- 106 00:10:16,910 --> 00:10:18,412 Do read the dedication. 107 00:10:25,585 --> 00:10:29,923 'In praise of my most sovereign lord and husband, King Henry VIII... 108 00:10:30,549 --> 00:10:32,426 who is not only godly and learned... 109 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:35,637 but who is also our Moses, since he has delivered us out... 110 00:10:35,804 --> 00:10:38,598 of the captivity and bondage of the Pharaoh.' 111 00:10:39,850 --> 00:10:41,143 You mean Rome? 112 00:10:48,442 --> 00:10:53,280 You call the pope's clergy 'riffraff' which he planted in his tyranny. 113 00:10:56,074 --> 00:10:58,618 'And in eternal gratitude to my lord and husband... 114 00:10:58,785 --> 00:11:02,664 who has shown me by his works a holier path... 115 00:11:02,831 --> 00:11:05,959 and delivered me from the ignorance of my blind faith.' 116 00:11:06,126 --> 00:11:09,171 Cate, do you mean this? 117 00:11:09,337 --> 00:11:11,465 I do, Your Majesty. 118 00:11:11,631 --> 00:11:13,216 And not just for myself. 119 00:11:14,176 --> 00:11:16,970 I mean it for all your subjects. 120 00:11:21,058 --> 00:11:22,184 My Lady. 121 00:11:22,976 --> 00:11:24,061 Lady Herbert. 122 00:11:31,985 --> 00:11:34,863 Your Majesty, Bishop Gardiner is here. 123 00:11:45,373 --> 00:11:47,042 Majesty... 124 00:11:47,209 --> 00:11:51,421 I ask permission to arrest and interrogate... 125 00:11:51,588 --> 00:11:57,385 a known heretic and Protestant called Anne Askew... 126 00:11:57,552 --> 00:12:02,724 for fear that she has friends here at court. 127 00:12:06,019 --> 00:12:08,355 You have my permission, Your Grace. 128 00:12:23,245 --> 00:12:25,747 Good English people. 129 00:12:25,914 --> 00:12:28,917 They tell us that some of us are not fit... 130 00:12:29,084 --> 00:12:32,587 to read the words of our saviour and Lord. 131 00:12:32,754 --> 00:12:36,967 I say to you: I would rather read five lines in the Bible... 132 00:12:37,467 --> 00:12:39,553 than hear five masses in the temple. 133 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,599 The priest claims to turn the wine into God's blood... 134 00:12:44,766 --> 00:12:47,352 and the bread into God's body. 135 00:12:47,519 --> 00:12:49,396 But where is the proof? 136 00:12:49,563 --> 00:12:52,816 Go and find the proof yourself. 137 00:12:52,983 --> 00:12:56,945 Let the bread lie in the box for three months and it will be mouldy... 138 00:12:57,112 --> 00:12:59,906 and so turn to nothing that is good. 139 00:13:00,073 --> 00:13:01,074 Make way. 140 00:13:01,241 --> 00:13:04,786 Wherefore I am persuaded that it cannot be God. 141 00:13:04,953 --> 00:13:06,079 Arrest that woman! 142 00:13:07,330 --> 00:13:09,624 Faith is my shield. 143 00:13:09,791 --> 00:13:11,585 I now rejoice at heart... 144 00:13:11,751 --> 00:13:13,920 and hope bid me do so... 145 00:13:14,087 --> 00:13:16,047 for thou shall take my part... 146 00:13:16,214 --> 00:13:18,175 and ease me of my woe. 147 00:13:18,341 --> 00:13:20,594 For thou art my delight. 148 00:13:21,136 --> 00:13:24,306 Those say ought, those who knock, to them thy will... 149 00:13:25,015 --> 00:13:28,101 My Lord Surrey, it has been put to us... 150 00:13:28,268 --> 00:13:31,980 that your defeat at St. Étienne was not, as you claimed... 151 00:13:32,147 --> 00:13:34,316 due to the unwillingness of your soldiers... 152 00:13:34,482 --> 00:13:37,444 but to your own folly and an empty confidence... 153 00:13:37,611 --> 00:13:40,488 in your own unreasoning bravery. 154 00:13:40,655 --> 00:13:42,115 How do you answer such a charge? 155 00:13:42,282 --> 00:13:44,117 I would answer it was not such a defeat. 156 00:13:44,284 --> 00:13:46,286 There was loss and victory on both sides... 157 00:13:46,453 --> 00:13:49,539 and as a matter of fact, the enemy took more losses than we. 158 00:13:49,706 --> 00:13:52,959 Even so, my lord, our loss was the more grievous... 159 00:13:53,126 --> 00:13:57,797 since we lost all our captains who you, regardless of the danger... 160 00:13:57,964 --> 00:13:59,299 sent into the front line. 161 00:13:59,466 --> 00:14:02,594 Your Grace, I think you were never in battle. 162 00:14:02,969 --> 00:14:06,389 Those officers wanted to be in the front line. 163 00:14:06,723 --> 00:14:10,060 They charged with a cry of as great a courage and in as good an order... 164 00:14:10,227 --> 00:14:12,437 as anyone would wish for. 165 00:14:12,687 --> 00:14:15,273 They were outnumbered but broke through the enemy lines. 166 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,400 They destroyed four-fifths of the convoy. 167 00:14:18,318 --> 00:14:20,528 At that moment, the French were in disarray... 168 00:14:20,695 --> 00:14:23,865 and if the few men that this council had sent me... 169 00:14:24,032 --> 00:14:25,659 had not panicked and bolted... 170 00:14:26,284 --> 00:14:31,081 then His Majesty would now be celebrating a great victory. 171 00:14:32,707 --> 00:14:35,752 But alas, my lord, he is not. 172 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:39,089 You took a risk in attacking an enemy far superior in numbers... 173 00:14:39,673 --> 00:14:41,341 and you lost. 174 00:14:41,508 --> 00:14:45,136 You were personally forced to fly the battlefield, which is reprehensible... 175 00:14:45,303 --> 00:14:49,182 and one of only three ways by which a knight companion... 176 00:14:49,349 --> 00:14:51,851 can be degraded from the Order of the Garter. 177 00:14:54,187 --> 00:14:55,355 My Lord Surrey. 178 00:14:55,855 --> 00:14:58,775 My brother, Lord Hertford, has already announced allegations... 179 00:14:58,942 --> 00:15:01,027 against you for corrupt misuse of office... 180 00:15:01,194 --> 00:15:03,697 while you were lieutenant general of Boulogne. 181 00:15:04,072 --> 00:15:05,824 He has announced an immediate purge... 182 00:15:05,991 --> 00:15:09,494 of many of those that you appointed to positions of authority. 183 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,663 Sir, believe me... 184 00:15:11,830 --> 00:15:15,542 there are just too many witnesses that will tell you that Henry Howard... 185 00:15:15,709 --> 00:15:19,587 was never corrupted by personal considerations. 186 00:15:19,754 --> 00:15:23,216 Nor did his hand ever close upon a bribe. 187 00:15:23,383 --> 00:15:25,427 This council must confirm your removal... 188 00:15:25,593 --> 00:15:27,095 as lieutenant general... 189 00:15:27,262 --> 00:15:30,390 as well as revoke your former title of captain of Boulogne. 190 00:15:30,807 --> 00:15:33,768 You are ordered not to return to France. 191 00:15:35,353 --> 00:15:40,066 I am sure His Majesty will see fit to countermand these orders... 192 00:15:40,233 --> 00:15:41,901 after I have talked with him. 193 00:15:42,068 --> 00:15:47,407 My Lord, His Majesty has refused to grant you an audience. 194 00:15:51,786 --> 00:15:53,163 Has he? 195 00:15:56,374 --> 00:15:59,544 My lady, Sir Richard Rich. 196 00:16:05,091 --> 00:16:06,134 Sir Richard. 197 00:16:08,261 --> 00:16:09,763 Lady Mary. 198 00:16:10,096 --> 00:16:11,181 You have some news? 199 00:16:12,766 --> 00:16:15,018 I regret to inform you that Eustace Chapuys... 200 00:16:15,185 --> 00:16:17,812 once imperial ambassador here, has died... 201 00:16:19,022 --> 00:16:21,775 soon after returning to Spain. 202 00:16:41,878 --> 00:16:44,297 He was a remarkable man... 203 00:16:45,465 --> 00:16:47,133 and a true friend. 204 00:16:49,594 --> 00:16:52,639 And now I have nobody. 205 00:16:53,723 --> 00:16:55,308 Lady Mary... 206 00:16:56,851 --> 00:16:59,979 let me assure you that you still have many true friends... 207 00:17:00,146 --> 00:17:01,981 here at court. 208 00:17:02,148 --> 00:17:04,484 Not least Bishop Gardiner... 209 00:17:04,776 --> 00:17:06,653 and Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London... 210 00:17:06,820 --> 00:17:11,324 as well as many others, who share the Catholic faith... 211 00:17:11,491 --> 00:17:15,829 and continue to believe as you believe. 212 00:17:17,414 --> 00:17:18,832 And you? 213 00:17:20,667 --> 00:17:22,544 Yes. 214 00:17:35,348 --> 00:17:39,269 My poor brother is being brought up a Protestant and a heretic... 215 00:17:39,436 --> 00:17:42,105 and the king does nothing to stop it. 216 00:17:42,272 --> 00:17:46,860 Be assured, there is work afoot to stop it. 217 00:17:47,026 --> 00:17:49,737 But my Lord Gardiner needs to know that in these works... 218 00:17:49,904 --> 00:17:51,990 he has your support... 219 00:17:52,657 --> 00:17:56,953 even though they may touch people close to you. 220 00:18:02,125 --> 00:18:05,170 Send my love to His Grace. 221 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,883 Tell him I will pray fervently for his success. 222 00:18:12,469 --> 00:18:15,305 Anne Askew? 223 00:18:15,472 --> 00:18:16,514 Yes, sir. 224 00:18:16,681 --> 00:18:21,227 We hear that you still, openly and in public, preach heresy. 225 00:18:21,811 --> 00:18:25,273 I preach the word of God, sir... 226 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:26,649 to all who will listen. 227 00:18:26,816 --> 00:18:28,735 It seems you have friends here at court. 228 00:18:29,152 --> 00:18:33,114 But then, your brother once served in the king's household, I think? 229 00:18:33,281 --> 00:18:34,324 Yes, sir. 230 00:18:34,491 --> 00:18:37,994 We think these friends may include some ladies-in-waiting... 231 00:18:38,161 --> 00:18:39,579 to Her Majesty. 232 00:18:40,455 --> 00:18:42,916 The Duchess of Suffolk, for example. 233 00:18:43,082 --> 00:18:46,085 Or Lady Herbert, the queen's sister. 234 00:18:46,252 --> 00:18:48,379 We know that you received monies... 235 00:18:48,546 --> 00:18:50,798 whilst you have been in prison for your relief. 236 00:18:51,716 --> 00:18:56,513 And we believe that diverse important ladies... 237 00:18:56,679 --> 00:18:58,973 sent you that money. 238 00:19:02,602 --> 00:19:07,106 There was a man in a blue coat who delivered me 10 shillings. 239 00:19:07,273 --> 00:19:09,359 And what did he say? 240 00:19:11,653 --> 00:19:16,157 He said my Lady Hertford sent it to me. 241 00:19:16,324 --> 00:19:19,369 With the support and permission of the queen. 242 00:19:22,372 --> 00:19:25,542 Come, come, Mistress Askew. 243 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,961 We can make you speak. 244 00:19:38,972 --> 00:19:42,642 I want her moved down one level... 245 00:19:45,144 --> 00:19:48,856 Your Grace, I cannot allow... - You will do as we say. 246 00:19:49,023 --> 00:19:50,858 Sir Edmund. 247 00:19:59,325 --> 00:20:01,119 No! No, no, no! No! 248 00:20:01,286 --> 00:20:03,663 No! No! No! 249 00:20:14,507 --> 00:20:16,718 Please. Please. Please! 250 00:20:18,094 --> 00:20:19,345 Please. 251 00:20:30,023 --> 00:20:31,566 Mistress Askew. 252 00:20:37,030 --> 00:20:38,906 Your Grace has been badly misinformed... 253 00:20:39,073 --> 00:20:40,700 as to the events in Boulogne. 254 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,994 I am prepared to believe it, my lord. 255 00:20:43,161 --> 00:20:45,038 Again and again, the council refused... 256 00:20:45,204 --> 00:20:47,790 to send reinforcements that I asked for. 257 00:20:48,708 --> 00:20:51,377 Even the garrison at Calais refused to help... 258 00:20:51,544 --> 00:20:53,713 except to send some flatfooted... 259 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,383 squint-eyed, unshapely men unfit to carry arms. 260 00:20:57,550 --> 00:21:01,554 And now my command is revoked. 261 00:21:02,388 --> 00:21:05,808 Now I am a man of no service, no activity. 262 00:21:05,975 --> 00:21:08,728 And I must sit at home within the walls. 263 00:21:09,479 --> 00:21:12,106 Do not think of this as the end of your life, my lord. 264 00:21:12,273 --> 00:21:15,234 God has given you grace, courage, liberality... 265 00:21:15,401 --> 00:21:17,570 and up to St. Étienne... 266 00:21:18,196 --> 00:21:19,989 he also gave you good luck. 267 00:21:22,533 --> 00:21:24,911 Luck deserted you for a moment... 268 00:21:25,703 --> 00:21:27,914 but if the rest go on... 269 00:21:28,081 --> 00:21:31,042 then you will soon serve the King's Majesty again... 270 00:21:31,209 --> 00:21:35,546 and have every chance to regain your honour and reputation. 271 00:21:35,713 --> 00:21:37,590 I thank Your Grace for your words. 272 00:21:37,757 --> 00:21:40,259 But the truth of it is I was undermined and attacked... 273 00:21:40,426 --> 00:21:43,971 from the start of my command in Boulogne... 274 00:21:44,138 --> 00:21:47,141 and now, I swear to you... 275 00:21:47,308 --> 00:21:50,395 Hertford will smart for usurping my place. 276 00:21:50,561 --> 00:21:54,440 I would counsel your Lordship not to raise arms against Hertford. 277 00:21:54,607 --> 00:21:55,775 I have no choice. 278 00:21:57,402 --> 00:22:00,446 Your Grace, it's sure the king will die... 279 00:22:00,613 --> 00:22:03,157 before the prince reaches his maturity... 280 00:22:03,324 --> 00:22:07,036 so who will then govern the prince... 281 00:22:08,621 --> 00:22:10,415 and the realm? 282 00:22:17,255 --> 00:22:21,092 Just pinch her, for God's sake. Just pinch her. That's all. 283 00:22:21,801 --> 00:22:23,261 Nothing more. 284 00:22:30,017 --> 00:22:32,311 We ask you again... 285 00:22:32,478 --> 00:22:34,814 which other ladies of Her Majesty's chambers... 286 00:22:34,981 --> 00:22:38,234 sent you monies or promises of relief? 287 00:22:40,903 --> 00:22:44,449 We want to know which of the queen's ladies... 288 00:22:44,615 --> 00:22:47,243 share your beliefs. 289 00:22:47,410 --> 00:22:49,662 Or if the queen herself does. 290 00:22:52,498 --> 00:22:53,875 We must stretch her further. 291 00:22:54,041 --> 00:22:55,501 My lords! 292 00:22:56,210 --> 00:23:00,256 It is absolutely against the king's law to rack a woman. 293 00:23:00,423 --> 00:23:02,550 And I will do it no further on my conscience. 294 00:23:02,717 --> 00:23:05,011 Come, come, Sir Edmund: you know perfectly well... 295 00:23:05,178 --> 00:23:07,972 we have the authority of the king himself to examine her. 296 00:23:08,139 --> 00:23:11,684 I do not know at all that you have His Majesty's permission for this. 297 00:23:14,896 --> 00:23:16,230 Come. 298 00:23:22,403 --> 00:23:24,405 You foolish woman. 299 00:23:25,198 --> 00:23:27,116 Let me ask you something. 300 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,707 Do you say that priests cannot make the body of Christ? 301 00:23:35,249 --> 00:23:37,376 I say so, my lord... 302 00:23:37,543 --> 00:23:41,506 for I have read that God made man... 303 00:23:41,672 --> 00:23:45,384 but that man can make God, I have never yet read. 304 00:23:45,551 --> 00:23:48,846 And after the consecration, is it not the body of Christ? 305 00:23:49,013 --> 00:23:50,223 No. 306 00:23:51,057 --> 00:23:52,600 It is but consecrated bread. 307 00:23:52,767 --> 00:23:54,268 What if a mouse eats it... 308 00:23:54,769 --> 00:23:56,938 after the consecration? 309 00:23:57,104 --> 00:23:59,732 What shall become of that mouse? 310 00:24:02,193 --> 00:24:05,321 What say you, stupid woman? 311 00:24:07,782 --> 00:24:10,326 I say that mouse is damned. 312 00:24:11,077 --> 00:24:13,246 Poor mouse. 313 00:24:53,077 --> 00:24:54,120 What is it? 314 00:24:54,287 --> 00:24:57,498 Your Majesty, I must tell you that the woman, Anne Askew... 315 00:24:57,665 --> 00:25:02,336 has been put to torture in absolute violation of Your Majesty's laws. 316 00:25:17,977 --> 00:25:19,979 You were right to come and see me. 317 00:25:20,146 --> 00:25:23,649 So I may explain to you, and ease your conscience. 318 00:25:25,443 --> 00:25:27,361 In cases of extreme heresy... 319 00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:29,655 the law makes no distinction... 320 00:25:29,822 --> 00:25:32,950 between a man and a woman. 321 00:25:33,659 --> 00:25:35,536 For as you know, Sir Edmund... 322 00:25:35,703 --> 00:25:41,792 the devil takes many forms, and yet, it is always the devil. 323 00:25:50,468 --> 00:25:51,677 Wake up. 324 00:25:52,386 --> 00:25:54,472 Wake up. 325 00:26:00,686 --> 00:26:05,066 We desire to ask you again about the queen. 326 00:26:06,484 --> 00:26:07,693 Come now. 327 00:26:08,694 --> 00:26:10,029 Sweet lady. 328 00:26:13,199 --> 00:26:15,826 His Majesty, the king. 329 00:26:48,234 --> 00:26:50,653 My well-beloved Commons... 330 00:26:51,654 --> 00:26:54,156 I come here today to speak with you... 331 00:26:54,323 --> 00:26:56,492 to set forth my mind... 332 00:26:56,659 --> 00:26:59,161 and the secrets of my heart. 333 00:26:59,328 --> 00:27:03,290 There should be perfect love and concord in this realm... 334 00:27:03,457 --> 00:27:08,504 but instead, there is discord and dissension in every place. 335 00:27:09,505 --> 00:27:12,258 What love and charity is there amongst the clergy... 336 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:16,137 when one calls the other heretic and Anabaptist... 337 00:27:16,303 --> 00:27:20,141 and the other calls him papist and hypocrite? 338 00:27:20,766 --> 00:27:23,853 Are these tokens of charity amongst you? 339 00:27:24,270 --> 00:27:27,857 Are these the signs of fraternal love? 340 00:27:28,816 --> 00:27:33,446 The people look for light and you bring them darkness. 341 00:27:33,612 --> 00:27:35,614 And as for the laity... 342 00:27:35,781 --> 00:27:38,451 you are not clean of malice and envy... 343 00:27:39,076 --> 00:27:43,330 for you slander and rebuke priests and bishops. 344 00:27:43,497 --> 00:27:45,833 You take it upon yourselves to judge the clergy... 345 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,961 by the sole light of your fantastical opinions... 346 00:27:49,128 --> 00:27:50,963 and vain expositions. 347 00:27:52,131 --> 00:27:55,760 Although you are permitted to read holy scripture... 348 00:27:55,926 --> 00:27:59,013 you must understand that it is under licence... 349 00:27:59,180 --> 00:28:01,640 and only to inform your conscience... 350 00:28:01,807 --> 00:28:06,145 not to dispute and make scripture. 351 00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:10,107 I give you the Bible in your own tongue... 352 00:28:10,274 --> 00:28:15,154 but I am sorry to see that that most precious jewel, the word of God... 353 00:28:15,321 --> 00:28:19,075 has been disputed, rimed, sung, and jangled... 354 00:28:19,241 --> 00:28:21,994 in every alehouse and every tavern in this realm. 355 00:28:24,205 --> 00:28:27,917 I, whom God has appointed his vicar here... 356 00:28:28,334 --> 00:28:30,669 will see these divisions extinct... 357 00:28:30,836 --> 00:28:32,588 and those enormities corrected... 358 00:28:33,506 --> 00:28:37,426 or God shall account me an unprofitable servant. 359 00:28:39,845 --> 00:28:40,888 Therefore... 360 00:28:41,847 --> 00:28:43,849 be of charity with one another... 361 00:28:44,517 --> 00:28:47,353 like brother and brother. 362 00:28:48,312 --> 00:28:51,148 Love, dread, and serve God... 363 00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:54,693 the which I, as your supreme head and sovereign lord... 364 00:28:54,860 --> 00:28:57,029 exhort and require you... 365 00:28:57,196 --> 00:28:59,281 and I doubt not... 366 00:28:59,448 --> 00:29:03,369 but that love and affinity which I spoke of at the beginning... 367 00:29:03,536 --> 00:29:08,374 shall never be dissolved or broken between us. 368 00:29:13,379 --> 00:29:15,131 Your Majesty! 369 00:29:22,138 --> 00:29:23,889 Aye! 370 00:29:45,870 --> 00:29:48,122 What did the king say, Sir Thomas? 371 00:29:48,289 --> 00:29:51,125 He was angry with the religious divisions in his realm. 372 00:29:51,292 --> 00:29:53,836 He said that he gave people the Bible to read... 373 00:29:54,003 --> 00:29:56,422 but not so that they could dispute its meanings. 374 00:29:56,589 --> 00:29:59,842 It seems to me like His Majesty is like one who would throw a man... 375 00:30:00,009 --> 00:30:01,927 headlong off the top of a high tower... 376 00:30:02,094 --> 00:30:05,055 and ask him to stop when he is halfway down. 377 00:30:05,222 --> 00:30:09,101 For surely our delivery from the tyranny of Rome and blind faith... 378 00:30:09,268 --> 00:30:12,771 is not the end of the reform and renewal of our Christian life... 379 00:30:12,938 --> 00:30:14,773 but it is only the beginning. 380 00:30:14,982 --> 00:30:17,860 The king does suppose that only he knows the will of God... 381 00:30:18,027 --> 00:30:21,238 and so whatever he thinks should therefore be the new orthodoxy... 382 00:30:21,405 --> 00:30:23,032 however fantastical. 383 00:30:23,199 --> 00:30:25,117 It is like his own private religion... 384 00:30:25,534 --> 00:30:28,621 and yet he asks for an end to division, for charity and love. 385 00:30:28,787 --> 00:30:30,956 Sir Thomas, he is still the king. 386 00:30:31,123 --> 00:30:33,709 And if he asks for charity and love... 387 00:30:33,876 --> 00:30:36,503 then he is doing no more than Christ did. 388 00:30:36,670 --> 00:30:40,382 Madam, the king has opened a Pandora's box. 389 00:30:40,549 --> 00:30:42,509 And whether he will or not... 390 00:30:42,676 --> 00:30:46,430 he simply cannot close it now whatever his complaints. 391 00:30:48,307 --> 00:30:50,976 You look troubled. What is it? 392 00:30:51,143 --> 00:30:54,188 I fear now more than ever the machinations of men. 393 00:30:54,355 --> 00:30:58,442 How their plots and plans swirl about the court and the king. 394 00:30:59,151 --> 00:31:02,488 I can sense it, but I have no knowledge anymore. 395 00:31:03,030 --> 00:31:06,158 No one it seems, least of all the king, confides in me. 396 00:31:06,325 --> 00:31:08,827 But is it not better so? 397 00:31:08,994 --> 00:31:13,040 In some ways, since it leaves me free to love you at my leisure. 398 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:16,752 But in other ways, it condemns my high station... 399 00:31:16,919 --> 00:31:18,587 to neglect affairs of the realm. 400 00:31:18,754 --> 00:31:20,130 Especially now. 401 00:31:20,297 --> 00:31:22,174 When men conspire to secure its future... 402 00:31:22,341 --> 00:31:24,969 and their own profits. 403 00:31:25,135 --> 00:31:26,845 But I don't understand. 404 00:31:27,012 --> 00:31:29,598 How can they secure the future? 405 00:31:29,765 --> 00:31:31,433 By controlling the prince. 406 00:31:34,687 --> 00:31:38,899 It is widely supposed that the king's infirmities grow worse... 407 00:31:39,191 --> 00:31:43,070 and he will not live to see the prince come to maturity. 408 00:31:44,571 --> 00:31:47,700 Do you still love the king? 409 00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:52,788 My Lord Hertford. 410 00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:53,998 Majesty- 411 00:31:54,164 --> 00:31:56,709 So there is peace with France. 412 00:31:59,712 --> 00:32:02,298 Only if Your Majesty accepts the terms. 413 00:32:02,464 --> 00:32:04,133 What are the terms? 414 00:32:11,724 --> 00:32:13,934 In eight years time... 415 00:32:14,101 --> 00:32:17,771 Your Majesty will hand back Boulogne... 416 00:32:17,938 --> 00:32:20,941 in return for a payment... 417 00:32:21,108 --> 00:32:22,609 of two million crowns. 418 00:32:26,113 --> 00:32:27,698 Two million? 419 00:32:27,865 --> 00:32:29,283 Yes, Your Majesty. 420 00:32:29,908 --> 00:32:32,119 The admiral of France, Claude D'Annebault... 421 00:32:32,286 --> 00:32:35,789 will come here to Your Majesty's court to sign the peace treaty... 422 00:32:36,623 --> 00:32:39,293 if Your Majesty so desires. 423 00:32:39,460 --> 00:32:41,128 Your Majesty. 424 00:32:44,757 --> 00:32:48,093 You have done well, my Lord Hertford. 425 00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:52,473 Majesty- 426 00:32:59,355 --> 00:33:00,522 My lord. 427 00:33:00,689 --> 00:33:03,817 Majesty, His Grace Bishop Gardiner... 428 00:33:03,984 --> 00:33:06,487 having examined the heretic Anne Askew... 429 00:33:07,071 --> 00:33:09,823 requests Your Majesty's permission to order the arrest... 430 00:33:09,990 --> 00:33:12,951 of three of Her Majesty's ladies... 431 00:33:13,118 --> 00:33:16,997 including Her Majesty's sister, Lady Herbert. 432 00:33:17,164 --> 00:33:18,999 His Grace would like to question them... 433 00:33:19,166 --> 00:33:22,795 as to their knowledge and keeping of forbidden material. 434 00:33:29,635 --> 00:33:31,011 Martin... 435 00:33:31,178 --> 00:33:32,346 stay at the door. 436 00:33:32,513 --> 00:33:33,806 Yes, my lord. 437 00:33:35,891 --> 00:33:37,017 Extraordinary. 438 00:33:37,851 --> 00:33:38,894 Gentlemen. 439 00:33:39,061 --> 00:33:41,021 My lord. - My lord. 440 00:33:45,734 --> 00:33:48,195 Here is a very great undertaking... 441 00:33:49,196 --> 00:33:51,240 upon which our lives will depend. 442 00:33:52,282 --> 00:33:54,368 What we must first decide... 443 00:33:54,535 --> 00:33:57,454 is how best to approach Windsor... 444 00:33:58,997 --> 00:34:03,168 and in what manner to overcome the guards that surround the prince... 445 00:34:04,169 --> 00:34:06,630 and so remove him. 446 00:34:08,465 --> 00:34:10,676 For be in no doubt, gentlemen... 447 00:34:12,177 --> 00:34:15,681 that he who possesses the heir to the throne... 448 00:34:15,848 --> 00:34:19,268 will very soon possess the throne itself. 449 00:34:33,407 --> 00:34:35,868 Her Majesty, the queen. 450 00:34:44,418 --> 00:34:45,544 My Lord Risley. 451 00:34:45,711 --> 00:34:47,296 Your Majesty. 452 00:34:49,423 --> 00:34:50,466 Your Grace. 453 00:34:51,175 --> 00:34:52,759 Your Majesty. 454 00:34:56,472 --> 00:34:57,723 May I dance? 455 00:34:57,890 --> 00:34:59,808 Of course you may, my lady. 456 00:35:06,190 --> 00:35:07,566 Your Majesty. - Your Majesty. 457 00:35:07,733 --> 00:35:08,775 Your Majesty. 458 00:35:08,942 --> 00:35:13,655 My Lord Hertford, I am most glad to see you returned from France. 459 00:35:14,198 --> 00:35:16,158 Thank you, Your Majesty. 460 00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:20,037 Bishop Gardiner has arrested my sister and two of my ladies... 461 00:35:20,204 --> 00:35:21,580 on suspicion of heresy. 462 00:35:23,957 --> 00:35:25,626 Your Grace. 463 00:35:25,792 --> 00:35:27,628 Lady Mary. 464 00:35:31,340 --> 00:35:32,799 How go your investigations? 465 00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:38,096 They go well, for we have discovered certain books... 466 00:35:38,263 --> 00:35:41,934 in the closets of the queen's ladies... 467 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,103 about which they will be questioned further. 468 00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:47,606 And the heretic, Anne Askew? 469 00:35:47,773 --> 00:35:52,945 Well, I am happy to tell, good Lady, that, on His Majesty's orders... 470 00:35:53,111 --> 00:35:57,032 she is condemned to be burned at Smithfield. 471 00:36:06,166 --> 00:36:07,626 Seize him! 472 00:36:10,295 --> 00:36:13,298 My Lord Surrey, you are under arrest for treason. 473 00:36:16,802 --> 00:36:18,554 Come on gentlemen, lovely... 474 00:36:26,645 --> 00:36:29,690 Come on, everyone. 475 00:36:29,856 --> 00:36:31,275 Sir. Sir. 476 00:36:31,441 --> 00:36:32,776 What is it you want, my lady? 477 00:36:32,943 --> 00:36:34,319 Come and get it. 478 00:36:34,486 --> 00:36:38,532 Here, tie this around her neck. 479 00:36:38,699 --> 00:36:40,909 It will end her suffering quickly. 480 00:36:41,076 --> 00:36:42,869 Fresh cut meat. - Take it. 481 00:36:43,870 --> 00:36:45,872 Not just for the money... 482 00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:48,417 but also for the love of God. 483 00:37:32,044 --> 00:37:33,670 My Lady Hertford. 484 00:37:34,796 --> 00:37:36,882 What do you want? 485 00:37:37,049 --> 00:37:40,260 Just to let you know that Bishop Gardiner would like to see you. 486 00:37:42,262 --> 00:37:44,389 Very soon. 487 00:37:53,482 --> 00:37:54,566 What's this? 488 00:37:55,817 --> 00:37:57,235 Gunpowder. 489 00:37:57,402 --> 00:37:59,029 A gift from a friend. 490 00:38:52,749 --> 00:38:54,793 My Lord Surrey. 491 00:38:55,794 --> 00:38:57,796 If the king should die... 492 00:38:58,547 --> 00:39:00,674 leaving the lord prince at his tender age... 493 00:39:00,841 --> 00:39:03,802 have you either devised or suggested who should govern him... 494 00:39:03,969 --> 00:39:05,095 and this realm? 495 00:39:05,262 --> 00:39:08,890 Whether, that is, you have ever said that in such a case... 496 00:39:09,057 --> 00:39:11,810 you would have the rule and governance of him... 497 00:39:11,977 --> 00:39:13,895 or words to that effect? 498 00:39:14,062 --> 00:39:17,691 Yes, yes, cousin Knyvet, I understood the question. 499 00:39:20,485 --> 00:39:23,155 Also, is it true that you wilfully bear the royal arms... 500 00:39:23,321 --> 00:39:24,990 of King Edward the Confessor... 501 00:39:25,157 --> 00:39:29,453 and claim to be the next heir or kin to him? 502 00:39:30,495 --> 00:39:35,333 I only put in my coat of arms what I am entitled to put there... 503 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:36,710 Sir Richard. 504 00:39:36,877 --> 00:39:38,503 I tell you this, my Lord Surrey... 505 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,299 if ever you got power here, in this realm... 506 00:39:42,466 --> 00:39:45,635 I would go abroad and stay there... 507 00:39:45,802 --> 00:39:48,346 because I would be so afraid of your malice. 508 00:39:48,513 --> 00:39:49,765 Cousin Knyvet. 509 00:39:49,931 --> 00:39:52,851 I malice not so low as you. 510 00:39:53,351 --> 00:39:56,521 My malice goes much higher. 511 00:39:56,688 --> 00:39:58,774 He said his malice went even higher? 512 00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:01,359 Yes, Your Majesty. 513 00:40:01,526 --> 00:40:04,362 My informants tell me that it was the intention of Surrey... 514 00:40:04,529 --> 00:40:07,657 and his associates to usurp authority... 515 00:40:07,824 --> 00:40:10,744 by means of the murder of all members of the council... 516 00:40:10,911 --> 00:40:13,205 and the control of the prince by them alone. 517 00:40:14,706 --> 00:40:17,876 God forbid they should've succeeded in their abominable enterprise. 518 00:40:18,043 --> 00:40:19,461 Yes, Your Majesty. 519 00:40:19,628 --> 00:40:22,380 Thank God the earl was found out. 520 00:40:26,885 --> 00:40:28,720 I used to love him. 521 00:40:29,638 --> 00:40:33,058 Yes, I've always known he was proud and foolish... 522 00:40:33,225 --> 00:40:35,602 but I loved him for all that. 523 00:40:39,981 --> 00:40:42,901 Now he has forfeited my love. 524 00:41:09,928 --> 00:41:12,430 Martin. - My lord. 525 00:41:19,437 --> 00:41:21,273 Did you get the dagger? 526 00:41:21,439 --> 00:41:22,482 Yes, my lord. 527 00:41:24,317 --> 00:41:25,777 Good man. 528 00:41:28,947 --> 00:41:30,657 Come over here. 529 00:41:52,137 --> 00:41:53,305 That's the river. 530 00:41:53,471 --> 00:41:55,223 It comes right up at high tide... 531 00:41:56,808 --> 00:41:59,644 and I can just about fit down the shaft, I'm certain. 532 00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:04,316 Go now to St. Katharine's dock, get a boat, and wait for me there. 533 00:42:04,482 --> 00:42:06,818 I should be with you by midnight. 534 00:42:06,985 --> 00:42:08,695 For the love of God, Martin... 535 00:42:08,862 --> 00:42:12,282 do as I ask. For if I do not escape from this place... 536 00:42:12,449 --> 00:42:13,533 Yes, my lord. 537 00:42:17,078 --> 00:42:22,334 Sister, there, there. Weep no more. 538 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:24,002 You were released. 539 00:42:24,169 --> 00:42:27,005 Nothing has been found. 540 00:42:27,172 --> 00:42:31,468 Everything is going to be all right, believe me. 541 00:42:31,635 --> 00:42:34,512 Everything is going to be all right. 542 00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:38,516 Darling one, you're safe. 543 00:42:38,683 --> 00:42:40,685 You're safe. 544 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,329 Close the door. 545 00:43:18,264 --> 00:43:20,767 He's escaping! Help me! 546 00:43:32,570 --> 00:43:34,906 My lords, members of the jury... 547 00:43:36,199 --> 00:43:39,327 for either of the offences the earl has committed... 548 00:43:39,494 --> 00:43:41,705 he deserves death. 549 00:43:41,871 --> 00:43:44,833 First, for usurping the royal arms... 550 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,086 which gives rise to the suspicion that he hoped to become king. 551 00:43:48,253 --> 00:43:51,589 The other, for escaping from prison... 552 00:43:51,756 --> 00:43:54,050 whereby he proved his guilt. 553 00:43:54,217 --> 00:43:55,760 You are false... 554 00:43:55,927 --> 00:44:00,598 and to earn a piece of gold, would condemn your own father. 555 00:44:02,475 --> 00:44:04,978 I never sought to usurp the king's arms... 556 00:44:05,145 --> 00:44:09,315 for everyone knows my ancestors bore them. 557 00:44:10,817 --> 00:44:14,446 Go to the church in Norfolk, you will see them there... 558 00:44:14,612 --> 00:44:18,616 for they have been ours for 500 years. 559 00:44:18,783 --> 00:44:20,785 Hold your peace, my lord! 560 00:44:20,952 --> 00:44:24,664 Your idea was to commit treason and become king. 561 00:44:24,831 --> 00:44:26,541 And you. 562 00:44:26,708 --> 00:44:28,209 You catch pole. 563 00:44:30,295 --> 00:44:32,338 What have you to do with it? 564 00:44:33,298 --> 00:44:35,050 You had better hold your tongue... 565 00:44:35,925 --> 00:44:38,970 for this kingdom has never been well since the king... 566 00:44:39,137 --> 00:44:43,933 put mean creatures like you into this government. 567 00:44:46,227 --> 00:44:47,645 Silence. 568 00:44:48,354 --> 00:44:49,814 Silence in court. 569 00:44:51,191 --> 00:44:52,650 Silence! 570 00:44:54,277 --> 00:44:56,654 If, as you say, the accusations are false... 571 00:44:56,821 --> 00:44:59,699 can you explain to us why you tried to escape the tower? 572 00:45:01,868 --> 00:45:04,120 I tried to escape to prevent myself... 573 00:45:04,287 --> 00:45:07,665 from coming to the pass in which I am now. 574 00:45:09,959 --> 00:45:14,089 And you, my lord, well know... 575 00:45:14,255 --> 00:45:17,967 that no matter how right a man may be... 576 00:45:18,134 --> 00:45:21,179 they always find the fallen one guilty. 577 00:45:21,346 --> 00:45:23,389 Aye. 578 00:45:23,556 --> 00:45:27,519 You have only yourself to blame, my lord, for the pass you are in. 579 00:45:27,685 --> 00:45:28,728 No. 580 00:45:29,437 --> 00:45:34,317 It was a friendly foe by shadow of goodwill... 581 00:45:34,484 --> 00:45:38,947 my old companion and dear friend, that trapped me. 582 00:45:42,784 --> 00:45:45,954 Henry Howard, how do you plead? 583 00:45:46,121 --> 00:45:47,205 Not guilty. 584 00:45:50,458 --> 00:45:52,627 How will you be tried'? 585 00:45:52,794 --> 00:45:56,798 By God and the country. 586 00:46:20,238 --> 00:46:22,073 I knew that I hated the earl. 587 00:46:22,532 --> 00:46:25,493 But I am surprised, Sir Richard, that you share my antipathy. 588 00:46:25,869 --> 00:46:28,121 My Lord Hertford, you shouldn't be so surprised... 589 00:46:28,288 --> 00:46:30,582 since the earl hates us both the same. 590 00:46:31,916 --> 00:46:35,920 So I am sure, all of us will prosper better without him. 591 00:46:37,255 --> 00:46:38,923 I agree. 592 00:46:41,342 --> 00:46:43,887 My lords, forgive me... 593 00:46:44,053 --> 00:46:46,973 but as foreman of the jury, I have to tell your Lordships... 594 00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:50,768 that we are not impressed with the evidence against my Lord Surrey. 595 00:46:50,935 --> 00:46:53,688 It is very clear to us that my Lord Surrey has the right... 596 00:46:53,855 --> 00:46:56,107 to bear the arms of Edward the Confessor... 597 00:46:56,274 --> 00:46:58,610 and as to the plot against His Majesty... 598 00:46:58,776 --> 00:47:02,280 we can find no credible evidence to support it. 599 00:47:03,489 --> 00:47:06,868 Sirs, we do not think it right and proper that the earl... 600 00:47:07,035 --> 00:47:09,746 should be condemned for such trifles. 601 00:47:09,913 --> 00:47:13,124 Sir Christopher, whenever has innocence... 602 00:47:13,291 --> 00:47:16,085 been cause to save a man's life... 603 00:47:16,252 --> 00:47:19,130 when the king deems him unfit to live in the commonwealth? 604 00:47:19,297 --> 00:47:23,301 My lord, this is a trial under law. 605 00:47:23,468 --> 00:47:28,139 Master Haydon, if you did not know it before, then you know it now... 606 00:47:28,306 --> 00:47:31,851 the law is whatever His Majesty says it is. 607 00:47:32,018 --> 00:47:37,232 And if you provoke His Majesty, then you too will feel the full force of it. 608 00:48:07,262 --> 00:48:09,347 What is wrong, Lady Mary? 609 00:48:09,514 --> 00:48:11,641 Are you unwell? 610 00:48:11,808 --> 00:48:12,850 No, madam. 611 00:48:15,853 --> 00:48:17,355 Then? 612 00:48:19,857 --> 00:48:21,859 I have heard some rumours. 613 00:48:22,026 --> 00:48:24,237 Rumours about what, Lady Mary? 614 00:48:24,946 --> 00:48:27,282 The new imperial ambassador has told me... 615 00:48:27,448 --> 00:48:29,951 that in Antwerp and other foreign places... 616 00:48:30,118 --> 00:48:33,037 that they are saying the king is looking for a new wife. 617 00:48:34,539 --> 00:48:35,915 Why should they say so? 618 00:48:37,792 --> 00:48:40,670 Despite the length of your marriage... 619 00:48:41,587 --> 00:48:45,258 you have still not presented His Majesty with a child. 620 00:48:49,012 --> 00:48:50,054 Lady Mary... 621 00:48:52,181 --> 00:48:56,602 we were such good friends. You remember that, don't you? 622 00:48:58,104 --> 00:49:00,732 Well, for me, nothing has changed... 623 00:49:00,898 --> 00:49:04,068 and I love you as I did before. 624 00:49:04,235 --> 00:49:06,404 But something has happened... 625 00:49:06,571 --> 00:49:10,241 and you no longer love me as you did before. 626 00:49:11,868 --> 00:49:13,244 Why? 627 00:49:14,704 --> 00:49:16,664 Gentlemen of the jury... 628 00:49:16,831 --> 00:49:18,791 how do you find the defendant? 629 00:49:30,887 --> 00:49:31,929 Guilty. 630 00:49:34,724 --> 00:49:36,476 And he should die for it! 631 00:49:50,323 --> 00:49:53,451 Of what have you found me guilty? 632 00:49:55,495 --> 00:49:58,081 Surely there is no law... 633 00:49:58,247 --> 00:50:00,458 that justifies you... 634 00:50:00,625 --> 00:50:02,293 but I know the king... 635 00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:06,798 wants to get rid of all the noble blood around him... 636 00:50:07,298 --> 00:50:11,803 and employ none but low people. 637 00:50:15,056 --> 00:50:18,017 Not guilty! - This trial is a sham! 638 00:50:18,518 --> 00:50:20,311 All trumped up! 639 00:50:20,812 --> 00:50:23,689 Henry Howard. - Release him! 640 00:50:23,856 --> 00:50:26,984 You will be taken to the place from whence you came... 641 00:50:27,151 --> 00:50:29,821 from there, to be dragged through the city of London... 642 00:50:29,987 --> 00:50:32,281 unto the place of execution called Tyburn. 643 00:50:32,448 --> 00:50:33,908 No! 644 00:50:34,617 --> 00:50:38,663 There to be hanged, cut down while still alive... 645 00:50:38,830 --> 00:50:41,082 your privy parts cut off, and your bowels... 646 00:50:41,249 --> 00:50:44,085 taken out of your body and burnt before you... 647 00:50:44,252 --> 00:50:49,340 your head cut off, and your body divided into four parts... 648 00:50:49,507 --> 00:50:52,552 the head and the quarters to be set at such places... 649 00:50:52,718 --> 00:50:55,680 as the king shall assign. 650 00:50:55,847 --> 00:50:57,598 Where's the king? 651 00:50:57,765 --> 00:51:00,268 This is a travesty! 652 00:51:18,870 --> 00:51:21,456 The happy life be these... 653 00:51:22,165 --> 00:51:24,041 the quiet mind... 654 00:51:24,959 --> 00:51:26,377 the equal friend... 655 00:51:27,044 --> 00:51:30,047 no grudge nor strife. 656 00:51:30,423 --> 00:51:34,552 Wisdom joined with simplicity. 657 00:51:35,428 --> 00:51:40,224 The night discharged of all care. 658 00:51:41,934 --> 00:51:43,936 Where's the king? 659 00:51:56,157 --> 00:51:58,117 The king was saved from conspirators. 660 00:51:58,284 --> 00:52:00,161 And Anne Askew as well. 661 00:52:00,328 --> 00:52:03,915 Sweetheart, I hear you have been busying yourself with your books. 662 00:52:04,081 --> 00:52:05,625 Yes, Your Majesty. 663 00:52:06,250 --> 00:52:09,754 I have translated works by Erasmus and Savonarola. 664 00:52:09,921 --> 00:52:14,675 As well as buying a beautiful book of Psalms by Thomas Berthelet. 665 00:52:15,426 --> 00:52:18,763 I wonder, Cate, at your diligence. 666 00:52:18,930 --> 00:52:22,225 Well, I regard it as much my duty as my pleasure... 667 00:52:22,391 --> 00:52:26,521 to place such wonderful books before the good English people... 668 00:52:26,687 --> 00:52:29,524 who have been a long time thirsting and hungering... 669 00:52:29,690 --> 00:52:33,486 for the sincere and plain knowledge of God's word. 670 00:52:33,653 --> 00:52:35,196 Just be cautious. 671 00:52:35,363 --> 00:52:38,533 Not every English person can read or understand the Gospels... 672 00:52:39,158 --> 00:52:42,161 and be careful of the consequences of encouraging them to try. 673 00:52:42,328 --> 00:52:45,039 Majesty, I am not afraid of the Gospels. 674 00:52:45,206 --> 00:52:48,084 Nor should anyone be afraid. 675 00:52:48,543 --> 00:52:51,087 Your Majesty has begun a great work... 676 00:52:51,254 --> 00:52:54,090 in banishing the monstrous idol of Rome. 677 00:52:54,257 --> 00:52:56,509 And now, with God's help... 678 00:52:56,676 --> 00:52:58,970 you can finish that work... 679 00:52:59,136 --> 00:53:01,889 by purging the Church of England of its dregs. 680 00:53:18,823 --> 00:53:21,909 Majesty? - Forgive me. I'm tired. 681 00:53:26,122 --> 00:53:27,873 Of course. 682 00:53:38,175 --> 00:53:39,510 Majesty- 683 00:53:40,303 --> 00:53:41,679 Cate. 684 00:53:49,604 --> 00:53:50,896 Majesty- 685 00:53:51,063 --> 00:53:52,648 Your Majesty. 686 00:53:54,108 --> 00:53:55,401 Majesty. - Majesty. 687 00:53:55,568 --> 00:53:57,695 Majesty. - Your Majesty. 688 00:53:57,862 --> 00:53:59,405 Majesty- 689 00:53:59,572 --> 00:54:00,823 Your Majesty. 690 00:54:01,949 --> 00:54:05,286 What a thing it is, when women become such clerks. 691 00:54:05,995 --> 00:54:08,581 And what a comfort it will be to me in my old age... 692 00:54:08,748 --> 00:54:11,042 to be lectured to by my wife. 693 00:54:11,208 --> 00:54:14,545 Your Majesty has no need to be taught by anyone. 694 00:54:15,963 --> 00:54:18,924 Your knowledge of divinity excels that of the princes... 695 00:54:19,091 --> 00:54:21,761 and divines throughout the ages. 696 00:54:24,347 --> 00:54:25,806 Forgive me... 697 00:54:26,724 --> 00:54:28,851 but I think it unseemly... 698 00:54:29,018 --> 00:54:32,772 for any of your subjects to argue with you... 699 00:54:32,938 --> 00:54:35,858 as the queen has just done. 700 00:54:36,025 --> 00:54:40,154 Majesty, many of the greatest subjects in the land... 701 00:54:40,321 --> 00:54:44,742 defending those same arguments that she does... 702 00:54:44,909 --> 00:54:48,079 have, by law, deserved death. 703 00:54:49,413 --> 00:54:52,750 I cannot believe that you would accuse the queen of heresy... 704 00:54:52,917 --> 00:54:54,001 without proof. 705 00:54:55,086 --> 00:54:56,170 I have the proof. 706 00:54:58,089 --> 00:55:00,716 But what I need is Your Majesty's consent to draw up... 707 00:55:00,883 --> 00:55:05,471 certain articles against the queen, so that she may be put on trial. 708 00:55:12,269 --> 00:55:13,688 She could be put on trial. 709 00:55:15,773 --> 00:55:20,111 And yet, I am fully resolved to spare her life. 710 00:55:20,611 --> 00:55:22,238 Certainly. 711 00:55:22,905 --> 00:55:25,449 Whatever Your Majesty desires.