1 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,320 Wolsey, you're out! 2 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,960 My Lords Norfolk and Suffolk. 3 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,640 Cardinal Wolsey. 4 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,120 You're dismissed as Lord Chancellor, 5 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:12,840 by the King's orders. 6 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,160 You're to return to us the Great Seal. 7 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:19,120 You'll have supper? 8 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,800 You wanted all to rule yourself, didn't you? 9 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,160 and had the lords like schoolboys, creeping in here. 10 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,280 Well, I am here now... 11 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,740 ..and I will chew you up. 12 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:39,360 Bones, flesh and gristle. 13 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,640 You're to hand over the Great Seal. 14 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,520 Ah! 15 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:56,800 Apparently, a written request from the King is necessary. 16 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,640 Do you have one? 17 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,160 No? 18 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,240 Oh, that's careless. 19 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,240 My lawyer, Thomas Cromwell. 20 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,160 You want us to ride back to Windsor for a piece of paper? 21 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,600 In this weather? 22 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,000 I see, yes. 23 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,640 Actually, my lawyer tells me I can't give you the Seal, 24 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,080 written request or no. 25 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,240 He tells me that, properly speaking, 26 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,240 I should hand it only to the Master of the Rolls. 27 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,320 So... 28 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,400 you'd better come back with him. 29 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,400 I'm obliged, master. 30 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,600 Did you know that, or did you make it up? 31 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,520 They'll be back in a day. 32 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,680 Well, these days, 33 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,480 24 hours feels like a victory. 34 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,560 Do we have refreshments for our guests? 35 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,960 Served on what? They've taken the plate. 36 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,180 What's this? 37 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:48,200 It's borrowed. 38 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,560 They've confiscated my wardrobe 39 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,920 and you know how I feel the cold. 40 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,120 Thank you, Peter. 41 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,800 This is to be Anne Boleyn's, I think. 42 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,980 The King wants her to have a London residence. 43 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:05,760 This palace belongs to the Archdiocese of York. 44 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,640 When did Lady Anne become an Archbishop? 45 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:11,280 Now, now, Thomas. Everything I have, I have from the King. 46 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,120 If he wants to take York Place, fully furnished, 47 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,360 then I'm sure we'll find some other roof to shelter under. 48 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,160 He's expecting to find a wax figure of himself 49 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,000 with a pin stuck through it. 50 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,640 Come and see me. 51 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,160 Why, My Lord? 52 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,080 When? 53 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,200 When you've mended your manners. 54 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,040 What it is, to serve a prince. 55 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,720 The gentlest, wisest prince in Christendom. 56 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,080 I'll not hear a word against Henry from any man. 57 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,160 Do you think it's something about the English? 58 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,520 They cannot see a great man set up, but they have to pull him down? 59 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:23,800 It's not the English. 60 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,400 It's just people. 61 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,880 'We brought the Lady Anne back from France, 62 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,480 'to marry into Ireland. 63 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,240 'Now I hear she danced at the court masque with young Harry Percy. 64 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,760 'Connived in dark corners with him. 65 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,000 'And I won't have that.' 66 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,680 Your grace can't think that I'm party to... 67 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,760 Oh, Sir Thomas Boleyn. 68 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,640 You'd be amazed at what I can think. 69 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,160 Anne knows things can't proceed with young Harry Percy. 70 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,160 - But he believes he's free to choose his own wife. - Free? 71 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,280 Choose his own...? 72 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,360 He's not some ploughboy! 73 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,440 He's the man who'll have to hold the north for us, some day. 74 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,800 The Percy family comprise the noblest in the land, 75 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,880 whereas the Boleyns were once in... 76 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,520 What? Trade, weren't you? 77 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:02,140 Who is that? 78 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:03,600 Who's that? 79 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,120 Oh, it's Stephen Gardiner, my Secretary. 80 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,400 Send him out. 81 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:13,880 Stephen. 82 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,320 And who is that? 83 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,600 Never mind who that is. He's nobody. 84 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,280 The problem is... 85 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,960 ..my daughter and Harry Percy, 86 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,020 I think they may have gone a little far in the matter. 87 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:43,470 It seems they've pledged themselves before witnesses... 88 00:08:43,670 --> 00:08:46,920 Well, you can forget all talk of pledges and witnesses. 89 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,680 I'll get his father down from the borders 90 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,240 and if the prodigal defies his father, 91 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,600 he'll be tossed out of his heirdom on his prodigal snout. 92 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,840 Now, get your daughter married into Ireland, 93 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,840 before her intended hears any rumours of spoilt goods. 94 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,720 Finished, My Lord Cardinal? 95 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:11,800 Finished. 96 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,460 Butcher's boy! 97 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:20,480 Butcher's dog! 98 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,600 Come out, dog. 99 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,520 He's talking to you. 100 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,600 So, Master Cromwell. 101 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,240 William Popely tells me I might find a use for you. 102 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:22,640 A man of many talents, he says. 103 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,800 A remarkable memory? 104 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,160 There's a technique, My Lord. 105 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:30,560 I learnt it in Italy. 106 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,840 How long were you abroad? 107 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:35,720 12 years. 108 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:36,760 Where are you from? 109 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,480 Putney. Left when I was a boy. 110 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:40,760 Your father? 111 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:42,800 Blacksmith. 112 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,640 Ah, at last! 113 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,960 A man born in a more lowly state than myself. 114 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,400 Hey... 115 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,700 - Bella! - Eaten? 116 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:07,000 - Mm-hmm. - Wine? 117 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:08,160 Why not? 118 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:30,160 I'm going to work for him - the Cardinal. 119 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,780 You know what they say in Italy? 120 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:39,600 "II principe bisogna sceglierlo." 121 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,520 - "You have to pick your prince." - Doing what? 122 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,260 Whatever he wants. 123 00:11:46,460 --> 00:11:47,920 We have enough. 124 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,120 I don't want to spend my life dealing in conveyances, Liz. 125 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,200 Whether this man's fence should be here or here... 126 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,680 You know what you're doing, I suppose. 127 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,080 At least, you always look as if you do. 128 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,160 Yeah, I do, don't I? 129 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,320 You're sweeter to look at than the Cardinal. 130 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,320 That's the smallest compliment a woman ever received. 131 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:31,680 What does our son say? 132 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,240 He...hopes you are well, hopes I am well, 133 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,800 hopes his lovely little sisters Anne and Grace are well. 134 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:43,720 He is well. 135 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,760 "And now no more, for lack of time, your dutiful son, Gregory." 136 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:48,960 Terrible Latin. 137 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,280 Anne's the better scholar. 138 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,760 Anne, go and get your breakfast. 139 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,360 After I've Latin, I'd like to learn Greek. 140 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:01,120 Gregory has hardly any Greek. 141 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,480 What will London be like when that one's Lord Mayor? 142 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:28,520 From Germany. 143 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,680 It came packaged as something else. I almost sent the boy away. 144 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,640 - If you want to know... - I don't want to know. 145 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,840 ..it's Tyndale's New Testament, Liz. 146 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,080 You should read it for yourself. 147 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,920 It's in English - that's the point. 148 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,440 Not Latin. 149 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,000 How can that be heresy? 150 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,800 Read it and you'll see how you're misled. 151 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,960 No mention of nuns, monks, relics... 152 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:02,360 No mention of Popes. 153 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:04,480 My prayer book's good reading for me. 154 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,040 Your prayer book? 155 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,120 Grace, look at this. 156 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,640 Rafe? 157 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,460 Richard? 158 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:25,280 Oh... 159 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,240 - Late. - Me, or your good self? 160 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,800 You - he's waiting. 161 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,160 The boatmen were drunk. 162 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,520 I'm surprised you didn't take an oar yourself. 163 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,840 You grew up at the river, didn't you? 164 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,640 God bless you. 165 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:07,840 Thanks! 166 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,080 Oh, the King sent for me this morning - 167 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,720 exceptionally early. 168 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:47,320 What did he want? 169 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:48,440 Pity. 170 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,960 A son. 171 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,720 The King wants a son. 172 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,160 18 years of marriage, with no heir. 173 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:02,560 He's decided some sin must have been committed, to cause this curse. 174 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,000 Oh, God... 175 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,640 Where did you learn this? 176 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,000 At the docks, a little after I left home. 177 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,980 Earned a living from it, for a while. 178 00:16:23,180 --> 00:16:25,800 Everyone thought they could beat a child. 179 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,040 What else should I know about you, 180 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:29,600 monstrous servant? 181 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,560 Once, in Italy, I held a snake for a bet. 182 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:36,800 Was it poisonous? 183 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,280 We didn't know - that was the point of the bet. 184 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,840 The sin? 185 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,080 Oh, yes, the sin. 186 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,800 I remember when they brought the Queen over from Spain 187 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,720 to marry Henry's brother, Prince Arthur. 188 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:56,200 16... 189 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,040 barely a word of English. 190 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,200 God, when she danced... 191 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,320 ..her red hair slid over her shoulder... 192 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,040 God forgive you? 193 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,360 God forgive us all. 194 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,320 Then Arthur dies, 195 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,400 Henry decides he'll have his brother's widow for himself. 196 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,240 Katherine declares that she's still a virgin, 197 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,520 poor Arthur never having touched her. 198 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,800 Rome issues the dispensation 199 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,280 and any doubts anyone has... 200 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,080 But now? 201 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,880 Well, now, the Queen can't give the King a son. 202 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,200 So, now... 203 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,240 ..the Queen must not have been a virgin, after all. 204 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,680 Henry says that he's lived all these years in an unlawful marriage. 205 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:54,920 Hence the sin. 206 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,840 So it's back to Rome, for an annulment. 207 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,040 She's blaming me, of course - Katherine. 208 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,740 She can't blame the king, so it's all my doing. 209 00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:09,440 No matter that I've begged him not to proceed. 210 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,440 When she defeated the Scots, I heard she wanted to send 211 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,560 the Scottish King's head in a bag to Henry, 212 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:18,680 to cheer him up. 213 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,520 Well, she's a fighter. 214 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,760 Ha! 215 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,600 Perhaps you should teach me your three-card trick, hmm? 216 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,280 In case we both end up on the streets! 217 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,040 Unpack everything. Masters, I want kindling, dry kindling. 218 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,640 Get the fires lit. Stephen, find the kitchen. 219 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,600 Actually, see him in first. I need the bedding. 220 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,840 What... Who is that? Michael? Down, off. The horses, later. 221 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,000 We want the Cardinal in bed and warm. 222 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,480 Come on, come on, we're not done yet! 223 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,080 I asked if they had nutmeg or saffron - 224 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,760 they looked at me as if I was speaking Greek. 225 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,680 I'll have to find a local supplier. 226 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,960 I shall pray for it. 227 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,960 Currently, I pray for the King and all his counsellors. 228 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,400 I pray for Queen Katherine and Lady Anne. 229 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,160 I pray for Thomas More, who hates me so. 230 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,580 I pray for a better harvest 231 00:20:19,780 --> 00:20:21,720 and that the rains might stop. 232 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,600 I pray for everyone and everything. 233 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,040 It's only when I say to the Lord... 234 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,960 "Now, about Thomas Cromwell..." 235 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,480 ..does God say to me, 236 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,320 "Wolsey, don't you know when to give up?" 237 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,160 Let me... Let me bless you. 238 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,760 This is what they've waited for - 239 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,640 Suffolk, Norfolk, Boleyn. 240 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,800 They won't rest until they have my head. 241 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,080 You should leave me, Thomas. 242 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:15,360 Gardiner has. 243 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:18,360 Gardiner would. 244 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,760 Tom? 245 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,560 Safe journey home. 246 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,880 I'm going to leave. 247 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,200 He says he'll send me to the Lady Anne. 248 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,320 I think she'll like me well enough, don't you? 249 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,520 What's the point of staying here? 250 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,280 They're going to be rid of the old man. 251 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,840 It serves him right. 252 00:21:59,040 --> 00:21:59,960 And Cromwell? 253 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,680 The lawyer? He'll go down with him. 254 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,640 Well... I say, "lawyer" - 255 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,780 who knows what he is? 256 00:22:07,980 --> 00:22:09,670 He comes from nothing. 257 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:11,360 The old man brings him in 258 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,080 and in a few years, it's as if he's the one in charge... 259 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:17,520 ..as if he has some hold over the Cardinal. 260 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,320 I heard he killed a man abroad and never made confession. 261 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,440 But that kind... 262 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,840 they always weep when they see the hangman. 263 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,000 I did, but... 264 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:50,440 ..with things the way they are with Wolsey, I thought... 265 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,040 Thomas More is here. 266 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,600 Well, I expect you invited him too. 267 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:31,960 - Gracia. - Prego. 268 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,960 Did you want to talk about me, Master More? 269 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,200 You can speak while I'm here, I have a thick skin. 270 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,360 No-one was talking of you. 271 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,480 Of the Cardinal, then? 272 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,840 Thomas, this is Monsieur Chapuys, 273 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,340 the Emperor's new ambassador here in London. 274 00:23:58,540 --> 00:24:00,840 Monsieur Chapuys, my friend, Thomas Cromwell. 275 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,240 Enchanted. 276 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,960 I hardly know where I come from, myself. 277 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,680 If you want to speak half-secretly, 278 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,600 try Greek, Monsieur Chapuys. 279 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:35,320 My friend, you are looking at your herring as if you hate it. 280 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,400 - There's nothing wrong with the herring. - Ah. 281 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,080 But of Cardinal Wolsey, I'll say only this - 282 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,840 he has brought his fall on himself. 283 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,200 He's drawn all to himself - land, money and titles. 284 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,560 He's always had a greed for ruling over other men. 285 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:53,800 The Cardinal's a public man. 286 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,920 Would you have him shrink from a public role? 287 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:57,080 Well, I think it's a little late 288 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,400 to read the Cardinal a lesson in humility. 289 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,680 His real friends have read it long ago and been ignored. 290 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,760 And you count yourself a real friend, do you? 291 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,880 I'll tell him - and by the blood of Christ, Lord Chancellor, 292 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,040 he'll find it a consolation as he sits in exile 293 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,140 and wonders why you slander him to the King. 294 00:25:12,340 --> 00:25:14,040 - Gentlemen... - No, let's have this straight. 295 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,200 Thomas here says, "I'd spend my life in the church, if I had a choice. 296 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,520 "I'm devoted to things of the spirit. 297 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,160 "I care nothing for wealth. 298 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,460 "The world's esteem is nothing to me." 299 00:25:23,660 --> 00:25:25,560 So how is it I come back to London 300 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,240 and find you've become Lord Chancellor? 301 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,400 Lord Chancellor. 302 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,840 What's that? 303 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,240 A fucking accident? 304 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,180 You're no friend to the church, Thomas. 305 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:49,400 You're a friend to one priest only - 306 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,000 and he's the most corrupt in Christendom. 307 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,360 You must give me the recipe for this sauce. 308 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,640 Thomas More is my old friend. 309 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,920 You shouldn't come here to bait him. 310 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,880 Am I not your friend too, Bonvisi? 311 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,280 You know you are. 312 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,960 And that's why I give you this advice. 313 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,160 The Cardinal is finished. 314 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:27,560 He'll go. 315 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,400 And then you will be without a master to protect you. 316 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:32,720 Leave him now. 317 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,000 Do you think it's true? 318 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,520 The mistake was being too proud? 319 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,380 I remember when he used to say, 320 00:26:52,580 --> 00:26:54,600 "The King will do such and such." 321 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,240 And then it was, "WE will do such-and-such." 322 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,680 Now, it's "This is what I will do." 323 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,360 No, no. 324 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,080 The mistake was making an enemy of Anne Boleyn. 325 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,640 But then, who knew how far she'd rise? 326 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:24,440 Thomas! 327 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,920 Of course, master. News from Rome. 328 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,960 The Emperor's troops have run wild in the city. 329 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,280 They're killing, raping... 330 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,000 Thomas More says they're roasting babies on spits. 331 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,760 Soldiers don't have time to eat babies. They're too busy stealing. 332 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,080 If the Emperor Charles had paid them once in a while... 333 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,560 They've taken the Pope prisoner. 334 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,320 What? 335 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,640 The Emperor is the Queen's nephew. 336 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,960 If he has the Pope, then the King's divorce petition is... 337 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,320 Yeah... 338 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,760 In every emergency, 339 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,280 look to see if there's some advantage for your prince, Thomas. 340 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,800 Ah, cherries. 341 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,920 How did I do that, I wonder? 342 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:15,960 Here - take. 343 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,960 Now, in this current emergency, 344 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,400 it will be to me that Pope Clement looks to... 345 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,080 well, keep Christendom together. 346 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,840 So, suppose if I were to travel to France 347 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,420 and gather together the cardinals in a council, you know, 348 00:28:36,620 --> 00:28:40,000 to conduct the business of the church in the Pope's absence? 349 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,280 Now, if this business... 350 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,880 happened to include the King's private matter... 351 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,480 might we not rule on it? 352 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,960 And voila, 353 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,360 the King of England will be a bachelor. 354 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,360 What? 355 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,200 Not more gossip from the silk merchants? 356 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,920 Rumour is the King has moved from Mary Boleyn 357 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,600 to her flat-chested sister. 358 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,200 Anne? 359 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,340 She hasn't forgiven you for that business with Harry Percy. 360 00:29:13,540 --> 00:29:16,680 - Well... - Cavendish tells me she's sworn vengeance on you. 361 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:17,840 Poor chit of a girl. 362 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,040 The King will have her in his bed by summer. 363 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,640 By autumn, he'll tire of her and pension her off. 364 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:37,680 What are you doing? 365 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,280 For Gregory. 366 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,880 It's the same design Queen Katherine uses for the King's shirts. 367 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,340 Well, if I were her, 368 00:29:52,540 --> 00:29:54,560 I'd leave the needle in. 369 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:55,760 I know you would. 370 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,680 Your sister was here today. 371 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,880 She asked again if you'd go and see him? 372 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,520 She said you'd hardly know him now. He's stopped drinking, settled down. 373 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:28,920 Grace, sweetheart, 374 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,840 will you keep away from the fire with those, eh? 375 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,120 They're your angel wings. 376 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,560 They're just supposed to be for Christmas. 377 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:37,600 I know. 378 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,360 All right, off you go. 379 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,880 Your own father, Thomas - 380 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,000 and he's never seen the children. 381 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,400 Well, let's keep it that way. 382 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,360 Can I choose who I want to marry? 383 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,480 What? 384 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,480 Can I choose who I want to marry? 385 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,880 Within reason. 386 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,560 Then I choose Rafe. 387 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,600 - You... 388 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,920 Grace says I can't marry him because he's my cousin. 389 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,000 Well, Richard's your cousin, not Rafe. 390 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,280 Rafe is my ward. 391 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,620 That means Rafe's father asked me to take him in 392 00:31:31,820 --> 00:31:34,960 and bring him up in business. Do you understand? 393 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,360 So I can choose Rafe? 394 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,960 If he'll wait for you. 395 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:46,880 Rafe? 396 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,760 She could do worse. 397 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,320 - I'm too warm. - Oh. 398 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,800 Go back to bed, Grace, sweetheart. 399 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,600 Are you going to wear those angel wings all night? 400 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,200 Till I say my prayers. 401 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,080 Tell me when you're going. 402 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,520 Liz, I'm not going. 403 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,480 I'm not going to France with Wolsey, remember? 404 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,920 Go back to bed, Liz. 405 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,400 - Hello, Francis. - Sir. 406 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,280 Anyone asks for me, I'm not here. 407 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:41,760 Yes, Master Cromwell. 408 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:52,400 The words of the scripture are as honey to me. 409 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,720 I am drunk on the word of God. 410 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,380 I've read Tyndale's gospel. 411 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:01,570 Masses, fasting, vigils, 412 00:34:01,770 --> 00:34:03,760 pardons out of purgatory... 413 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,880 all useless. 414 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,040 This is revealed to me. 415 00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:11,080 For Christ's sake, man, do you think you can crawl out of your hole 416 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,840 because Cardinal Wolsey is away? 417 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,040 All that means is that Gardiner and More 418 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:20,400 have a free hand to pursue us, 419 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,960 to brand us heretics. 420 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,520 Wolsey protects us. 421 00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:24,560 Wolsey? 422 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,200 Wolsey burns bibles. 423 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,520 More will burn men. 424 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,520 I met with Tyndale in Germany... 425 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:35,520 Oh, I... 426 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,920 I don't want to know where Tyndale is. 427 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,120 Gentlemen... 428 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,560 I'm going to go to Rome and see His Holiness. 429 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:49,480 I know I can bring him over to our way of thinking. 430 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:05,760 What is it? 431 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,600 Say it. 432 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:53,960 She... 433 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,240 She said she was tired this morning, after you left. 434 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:04,600 She wouldn't eat anything, then... 435 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,040 she started shaking. 436 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,160 We called for the priest around two. 437 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,960 She said she held a snake in Italy, 438 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,120 but the priest said that was just the fever talking. 439 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,600 He couldn't wait to get away. 440 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,240 Did she, er... 441 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,320 Did she leave any message? 442 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,200 For me? 443 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,000 Just kept saying she was thirsty. 444 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,520 It's the girls. 445 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,180 Come on, come on! 446 00:36:56,380 --> 00:36:57,760 Come on, come on! 447 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,960 Stay with me. Come on, come on, wake up, darling. 448 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,840 Come on, come on. Can you hear me, darling? 449 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,860 Can you hear me? Come on. 450 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,590 Come on, please, please... 451 00:37:08,790 --> 00:37:10,120 Wake up, open your eyes. 452 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,400 Open your eyes, please, darling. 453 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,960 Please, come on... 454 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,080 Come on, come on, come on, please... 455 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,320 Please, open your eyes, darling, come on, come on... 456 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,240 Don't, don't. 457 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,440 - Please, come on... - No. - Please... 458 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,400 Mercy, mercy, mercy... 459 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:31,800 Don't. 460 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:16,880 It's all right. 461 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,440 It's all right. 462 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,240 Go. Go now. 463 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,080 Everybody said it was back. 464 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,240 This... 465 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,840 ..sweating sickness. 466 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,560 I should have sent them to the country. 467 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,760 Liz wouldn't have let them go. 468 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,320 Anne cried every time you were away. 469 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:26,960 Did she? 470 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,200 Anne did? 471 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,960 John and I can stay with you for a while. 472 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,720 Look after the household, until you're... 473 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,680 She wanted to learn Greek. 474 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:16,160 Hey... 475 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,200 Oh! Ugh! 476 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,840 Where've you been? 477 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,040 You look like a foreigner. 478 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,080 I am a foreigner. 479 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,640 Where'd you go? 480 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,200 Here and there. 481 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,320 Working for Wolsey now, I hear. 482 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,720 I'm a lawyer. 483 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,760 Lawyer? 484 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,000 You were always a talker. 485 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,280 Slap in the mouth couldn't cure you. 486 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,680 God knows you tried. 487 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,320 Law? 488 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,600 If it wasn't for the law, I'd be a lord. 489 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,560 Cromwells had money. 490 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,300 We had estates. 491 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:52,040 Thieved off us - 492 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:53,280 by lawyers. 493 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,760 Suppose you don't admit to me, now, do you? 494 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,600 Suppose you hoped I'd be dead. 495 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:04,760 Why are you here? 496 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,920 My wife told me I should come see you. 497 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,040 Well, now you have. 498 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:20,280 Yeah. 499 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:47,920 What is it? 500 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:51,920 Master, I have a question to put to you. 501 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,480 My father is dead and you... 502 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,160 You are my father now. 503 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,720 So, shall I change my name to yours? 504 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,440 Your father? 505 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,120 Every day I light a candle for him. 506 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:21,920 Does that comfort you? 507 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,120 I don't know. 508 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,080 Well, this... 509 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,000 This comforts me. 510 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:42,800 Richard Cromwell. 511 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:47,920 Thank you. 512 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,360 - If... - Go, go on, get out. Get out. 513 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,640 Ugh! 514 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,200 Agh! Oh! 515 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:17,920 Now, get up! 516 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,280 Get up! 517 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,360 Come on, boy! Let me see you stand on your feet! 518 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:24,880 Get up! 519 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:26,880 - Agh! - Get up! 520 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,400 Get...up! 521 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,080 You'll hear the King's reception of me was cool. 522 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,520 It's only partly true. 523 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,200 Still, my mission could not be described 524 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,080 as an over-whelming success. 525 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:43,760 The cardinals wouldn't meet me. 526 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,760 They said it was too hot to travel south. 527 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,720 So...what next? 528 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,040 A new plan. A Legatine Court. 529 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:57,880 We ask the Pope to send his envoy to act in his name 530 00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,320 and rule here in England, 531 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,600 on the validity of the King's marriage to Katherine. 532 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,000 Hm? Huh? 533 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,080 Er... 534 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,240 When you were in France... 535 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:21,920 ..my wife and daughters died. 536 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:24,400 Oh, Tom... 537 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,400 Whom the Lord loveth... 538 00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:17,080 Master Cromwell? 539 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,520 Thomas Cromwell, reading a prayer book? 540 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,440 Now I know how bad things are. 541 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,320 How is he? 542 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,200 He asks after you... 543 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:44,160 ..the minute you've gone. 544 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,160 Worries you'll fall in the road. 545 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,240 Have you an inventory for York Place, George? 546 00:46:58,600 --> 00:46:59,920 What? 547 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,080 York Place. I'll take it to her. 548 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:06,720 To the Lady Anne? 549 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:07,960 Mm-hmm. 550 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,800 Well, Mark? 551 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,400 You're hard at study. 552 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,040 How are you? 553 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:17,080 It must feel strange, being back at York Place - 554 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,320 with the world so altered? 555 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:20,600 No. 556 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,680 You don't miss My Lord Cardinal? 557 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:25,720 No. 558 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,880 Well, you might not think of us, Mark, but... 559 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:31,960 we think of you. 560 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,320 Pourquoi! Don't let him out! 561 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:01,840 Lady Anne. 562 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,920 Vous etes gentil. 563 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,380 Allors... 564 00:49:12,580 --> 00:49:14,050 Master... 565 00:49:14,250 --> 00:49:15,720 Cremuel? 566 00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:23,840 You have your inventories? 567 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:43,280 Thank you for this. 568 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,680 Since My Lord Cardinal's reduction, 569 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,080 have you seen much progress in your cause? 570 00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,920 He's the only man in England who can obtain for you what you need. 571 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,040 Very well. 572 00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,140 Make his case. You have five minutes. 573 00:50:08,340 --> 00:50:10,320 Otherwise, I can see you're really busy. 574 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,560 The Cardinal's the only man who can deliver an annulment from the Pope. 575 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,080 He's the only man who can deliver the King's conscience - 576 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:25,760 and deliver it clean. 577 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,240 If the King wants it - 578 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,240 and according to you, the Cardinal, 579 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,080 formerly the chief subject of the kingdom, wants it... 580 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,640 Then I must say, Master Cremuel - 581 00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,280 it's all taking a marvellous long while to come to pass. 582 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,280 And she's not getting any younger. 583 00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,900 No-one is more distressed than the Cardinal 584 00:50:44,100 --> 00:50:46,040 that the King cannot have his heart's desire, 585 00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:48,080 which is ever the Cardinal's desire too. 586 00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:49,920 He knows that all the King's subjects 587 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,920 - repose their hopes in you, for an heir to the throne... - Very nice. 588 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,480 Very nice, Master Cremuel. 589 00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,240 But try again. 590 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,600 One thing. 591 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,400 One simple thing we asked of the Cardinal - 592 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,680 - and he would not. - You know it wasn't simple. 593 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,320 Well, perhaps I am a simple person. 594 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,000 Do you feel I am? 595 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,800 You may be. I hardly know you. 596 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:26,440 You may go. 597 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,120 Lady Mary. 598 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,040 God, I thought she would slap you. 599 00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:55,840 My sister likes a good fight. 600 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:57,100 Come again. 601 00:51:57,300 --> 00:51:58,160 I can't wait! 602 00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:59,920 Your sister can, I think. 603 00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:01,680 Oh, she knows how to wait. 604 00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:04,760 So I hear. 605 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,040 They say she and the King... 606 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:11,200 ..still haven't. It's true. 607 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,640 She lets him pull down her shift and kiss her breasts. 608 00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:18,280 Good man, if he can find them. 609 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,920 Lady Mary, Lady Anne wants you. 610 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,520 Oh, by the saints! 611 00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:45,880 I need a seat in Parliament again. 612 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,160 Why? 613 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,360 Because if I'm not there to speak for the Cardinal, 614 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:53,640 they'll kill him. 615 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,560 Cromwell, I am content you are a burgess in the Parliament. 616 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:40,520 My Lord. 617 00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:44,120 I spoke to the King for you and he is also content. 618 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,280 You will take his instructions in the Commons - and mine. 619 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,120 Will they be the same, My Lord? 620 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,640 God damn it, Cromwell... 621 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:56,840 Why are you such a... 622 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:57,920 person? 623 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,200 It's not as if you can afford to be. 624 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,080 Smile away! 625 00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:11,080 The King will grant you an audience, 626 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,720 but he is preparing a quarrel against you, master. 627 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,120 Oh, yes! 628 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,400 He has a long memory and well remembers 629 00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,440 when you were a burgess in the Parliament before this - 630 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,800 and how you spoke against his war. 631 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,720 I hope he doesn't think still of invading France. 632 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,320 God damn you! What Englishman doesn't? 633 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:33,800 We own France! 634 00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,520 We have a right to take back our own! 635 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,700 Mind you... 636 00:54:49,900 --> 00:54:51,690 You're right. 637 00:54:51,890 --> 00:54:53,480 We can't win. 638 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,280 But we have to fight anyway. 639 00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,720 That was what was wrong with Wolsey - 640 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,560 always at the treaty table. 641 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,520 How can a butcher's son understand... 642 00:55:05,720 --> 00:55:06,880 La gloire? 643 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,280 Are you a butcher's son? 644 00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,140 Blacksmith's. 645 00:55:12,340 --> 00:55:13,650 Are you really? 646 00:55:13,850 --> 00:55:14,960 Shoe a horse? 647 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,080 If I were put to it - I was a soldier, myself. 648 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:19,280 Were you? 649 00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:21,960 Were you? 650 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:28,080 Not with any English army, I'll be bound. 651 00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,480 I knew there was something about you that I didn't like, 652 00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,360 but I couldn't put my finger on it. 653 00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:39,800 Where were you? 654 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:41,320 Garigliano. 655 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:42,160 With? 656 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,160 - The French. - Huh! 657 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,280 - Wrong side, lad. - I noticed. 658 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:48,800 Longbow-man? 659 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,760 Now and then. Bit on the short side. 660 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:53,240 Me too. 661 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,800 The King can draw a bow. 662 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,220 Very nice. 663 00:55:57,420 --> 00:55:58,640 Got the arm. 664 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,720 My Lord, 665 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,040 Esher is not suitable for My Lord Cardinal. 666 00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:13,200 He's willing to travel to his palace at Winchester. 667 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,000 Oh, I bet he is. 668 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,420 Nice and close to the King! 669 00:56:18,620 --> 00:56:20,640 Don't take us for fools. 670 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,200 Tell your cardinal that he had his last chance, with his court, 671 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,760 here in this very building! 672 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:29,600 Tell him to go north. 673 00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,320 He's not ready to go north. 674 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:32,920 I want him north. 675 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,880 Tell him, Norfolk wants him on the road and away from here... 676 00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:40,760 ..and tell him... 677 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,820 ..if he doesn't, 678 00:56:45,020 --> 00:56:46,720 I'll come to him 679 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,880 and I'll tear him with my teeth. 680 00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,960 My Lord, may I substitute the word "bite" for "tear"? 681 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,200 Substitute nothing, you... 682 00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:57,560 ..you nobody. 683 00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:17,960 For 20 years, 684 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,720 I have been your true wife. 685 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,800 And by me, you have had many children... 686 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,480 ..although it pleased God to call them from this world - 687 00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,440 which was no fault of mine. 688 00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,400 And when you had me first - 689 00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,880 as God is my witness, I was a true maid, 690 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,520 without touch of man. 691 00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,480 And whether this is true or no, 692 00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:48,960 I put to your conscience. 693 00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,120 On Prince Arthur's wedding night, myself and the Earl of Oxford 694 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:02,640 took the prince to Queen Katherine's chambers 695 00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:05,780 and we were there when he climbed into bed beside her. 696 00:58:05,980 --> 00:58:08,920 Next morning, he comes out again, says he's thirsty 697 00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,040 and asks for some ale, because, he said... 698 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,600 "Last night I was in Spain!" 699 00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,800 The Queen was Spanish, you see? 700 00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:36,400 It would be a poor sort of bridegroom 701 00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,480 who'd come out in the morning and say, 702 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,560 "Good day, masters. Nothing done!" 703 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,800 He was 15, he was boasting. 704 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:48,760 I believe Katherine. 705 00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,680 Believe nobody. 706 00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,920 You're late, Stephen. They're almost done for the day. 707 00:58:58,120 --> 00:58:59,280 It doesn't matter. 708 00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,080 Why doesn't it matter? 709 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,960 News from one of my men in Rome. 710 00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:09,040 Pope Clement is preparing to sign a treaty with the Emperor. 711 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:12,600 Oh... 712 00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,560 Your boy doesn't understand. 713 00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,760 The Emperor won't take kindly to the Pope helping 714 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,640 to have his aunt cast off the throne. 715 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,800 I don't think your papal envoy in there 716 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:29,400 is likely to give the King what he wants, do you? 717 00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,200 And when he doesn't, 718 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,000 Wolsey will be finished. 719 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,040 And then I'll feel sorry for you. 720 00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:39,800 Except you won't. 721 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,120 Except I won't. 722 01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,240 Cromwell? How's your fat priest? 723 01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:41,640 How is...? 724 01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,560 He cannot be well till he has Your Majesty's favour. 725 01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,720 The list of charges against him grows every day. 726 01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,720 Saving Your Majesty, there's an answer to each one 727 01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,400 and given a hearing, we'd make them. 728 01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,480 Not today. 729 01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,160 Suffolk wants to go hunting. 730 01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:03,360 We usually say, we gentlemen, that the hunt prepares us for war. 731 01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,800 Which brings us to a sticky point, Master Cromwell. 732 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,080 It does, indeed. 733 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:16,640 You said, in Parliament, in a speech, some six years ago, 734 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:18,320 that I could not afford a war. 735 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:20,000 Wars are not affordable things. 736 01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:21,760 When I went into France, 737 01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,040 I captured the town of Therouanne, which you called... 738 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,080 - A dog-hole, Majesty. - How could you say so? 739 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:29,480 Er... I've been there. 740 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,040 So have I - at the head of an army! 741 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:36,720 You told me I could not lead my own troops! 742 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:38,720 You told me if I was taken prisoner, 743 01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,840 the ransom would bankrupt the country! So, what do you want? 744 01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:44,600 You want a king to huddle indoors, like a sick girl? 745 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,080 That would be ideal, for fiscal purposes. 746 01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:58,840 A strong man acts within that which constrains him. 747 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,560 What constrains me? 748 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,320 Distance. 749 01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,520 When Your Majesty's ancestors fought in France, 750 01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,280 they held whole provinces. 751 01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,000 From there, they could supply, they could provision. 752 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:13,560 Now we have only Calais, 753 01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,160 how can we support an army in the interior? 754 01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,280 So next time we go into France, 755 01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:20,400 we'll need a sea coast. 756 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,160 Of course - Normandy, Brittany. 757 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:29,200 Master Cromwell, 758 01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:30,960 your reputation is bad. 759 01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:37,760 You don't defend yourself? 760 01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,120 Your Majesty can form your own opinions. 761 01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:44,960 I can. 762 01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:48,240 I will. 763 01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,280 Are we to paint out the Cardinal's coat of arms? 764 01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,120 No. 765 01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:25,640 Paint it again. 766 01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,240 Paint it brighter.