1 00:05:16,417 --> 00:05:19,420 Every second bastard born is fathered by a priest. 2 00:05:25,176 --> 00:05:27,119 But in Utopia that couldn't be. 3 00:05:27,219 --> 00:05:28,245 For why? 4 00:05:28,345 --> 00:05:31,724 - For there the priests are very holy. - Therefore very few. 5 00:05:34,184 --> 00:05:36,436 Is it anything interesting, Matthew? 6 00:05:37,103 --> 00:05:40,607 - Bless you, sir. I don't know. - Bless you too, Matthew. 7 00:05:45,862 --> 00:05:48,348 To be sure, we have some holy priests in England. 8 00:05:48,448 --> 00:05:50,784 - Oh, name some. - Brother James. 9 00:05:51,367 --> 00:05:53,203 Man's a simpleton. 10 00:05:54,621 --> 00:05:56,414 It's from Cardinal Wolsey. 11 00:05:58,041 --> 00:05:59,334 What's he want? 12 00:05:59,918 --> 00:06:01,044 - Me. - When? 13 00:06:01,169 --> 00:06:02,045 Now. 14 00:06:02,212 --> 00:06:05,089 In Hampton Court? You won't be there by midnight. 15 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:08,467 - The King's business. - Queen's business. 16 00:06:08,801 --> 00:06:11,094 Mistress Anne Boleyn's business. 17 00:06:11,220 --> 00:06:14,389 Well, it's all the Cardinal's business. 18 00:06:14,515 --> 00:06:18,711 That's very true. And when the Cardinal calls, you all come running, day or night. 19 00:06:18,811 --> 00:06:21,814 What is the man? A butcher's son. 20 00:06:22,106 --> 00:06:23,674 Chancellor of England, too. 21 00:06:23,774 --> 00:06:26,276 No, that's his office. What's the man? 22 00:06:27,152 --> 00:06:30,264 Surely, Your Grace, when a man rises so high and so swiftly... 23 00:06:30,364 --> 00:06:33,242 we must think he was misplaced in his origins. 24 00:06:34,743 --> 00:06:37,287 That, at least, was the opinion of Aristotle and... 25 00:06:38,497 --> 00:06:40,457 A butcher's son and looks it. 26 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:43,167 His looks, yes, I give you his looks. 27 00:06:45,294 --> 00:06:47,380 What was that you said, Richard? 28 00:06:48,548 --> 00:06:50,550 Nothing, Sir Thomas, it was out of place. 29 00:06:52,009 --> 00:06:54,011 And Wolsey's still a butcher. 30 00:06:54,512 --> 00:06:57,999 And you're a member of the King's High Council, not an errand boy. 31 00:06:58,099 --> 00:06:59,767 That is why I must go. 32 00:07:00,226 --> 00:07:02,895 The Duke would go if the Cardinal called him. 33 00:07:03,646 --> 00:07:04,856 I might. 34 00:07:06,941 --> 00:07:08,776 I'll be back for breakfast. 35 00:07:09,694 --> 00:07:10,820 Go to bed. 36 00:07:12,405 --> 00:07:16,409 "Dear Lord, give us rest tonight, or if we must be wakeful, cheerful. 37 00:07:16,534 --> 00:07:20,996 "Careful only for our soul's salvation. For Christ's sake. Amen." 38 00:07:22,372 --> 00:07:24,291 And bless our lord, the King. 39 00:07:25,292 --> 00:07:27,944 - "And bless our lord, the King." - Amen! 40 00:07:28,044 --> 00:07:30,797 Excuse me, gentlemen. Goodnight, Your Grace. 41 00:07:35,677 --> 00:07:38,722 Keep clear of Wolsey, Thomas. He's a frightened man. 42 00:07:40,974 --> 00:07:43,727 - Who is that? - A young friend from Cambridge. 43 00:07:43,852 --> 00:07:46,938 - What's he want? - What do they all want? A position. 44 00:07:47,147 --> 00:07:50,150 - Can you give him a position? - Do you recommend him? 45 00:07:50,776 --> 00:07:51,817 No. 46 00:08:09,418 --> 00:08:11,420 - Sir Thomas. - No. 47 00:08:12,046 --> 00:08:14,215 - Did you recommend me? - No. 48 00:08:16,342 --> 00:08:18,761 Richard, I may have a position for you. 49 00:08:18,886 --> 00:08:23,015 - What? What position? - Not now, Richard. Tomorrow. 50 00:09:04,888 --> 00:09:06,473 For you all, boatman. 51 00:09:07,182 --> 00:09:08,517 Thank you, sir. 52 00:09:29,830 --> 00:09:32,791 Sir Thomas is here, Your Grace. Sir Thomas. 53 00:09:33,292 --> 00:09:34,667 Master Cromwell. 54 00:09:49,223 --> 00:09:52,727 You opposed me in the Council this morning, Thomas. 55 00:09:53,561 --> 00:09:54,937 Yes, Your Grace. 56 00:09:55,855 --> 00:09:59,025 - You were the only one. - Yes, Your Grace. 57 00:10:00,443 --> 00:10:01,694 You're a fool. 58 00:10:03,112 --> 00:10:05,907 Thank God there is only one fool on the Council. 59 00:10:09,701 --> 00:10:11,620 Why did you oppose me? 60 00:10:12,579 --> 00:10:14,623 I thought Your Grace was wrong. 61 00:10:16,249 --> 00:10:17,959 A matter of conscience. 62 00:10:20,128 --> 00:10:22,506 You're a constant regret to me, Thomas. 63 00:10:23,298 --> 00:10:25,784 If you could just see facts flat on... 64 00:10:25,884 --> 00:10:29,054 without that horrible moral squint. 65 00:10:30,263 --> 00:10:33,809 With a little common sense, you could have made a statesman. 66 00:10:40,315 --> 00:10:41,399 The King. 67 00:11:08,467 --> 00:11:11,637 Where's he been? Do you know? 68 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:13,931 I, Your Grace? 69 00:11:14,849 --> 00:11:16,933 Spare me your discretion. 70 00:11:18,351 --> 00:11:22,355 He's been to play in the muck again. 71 00:11:24,607 --> 00:11:26,776 He's been to Mistress Anne Boleyn. 72 00:11:32,449 --> 00:11:36,244 More, are you going to help me? 73 00:11:38,913 --> 00:11:41,541 If Your Grace will be specific. 74 00:11:42,584 --> 00:11:45,920 You're a plodder! All right, we'll plod. 75 00:11:46,588 --> 00:11:49,758 The King wants a son. What are you going to do about it? 76 00:11:50,008 --> 00:11:54,052 I'm very sure the King needs no advice from me on what to do about it. 77 00:11:54,887 --> 00:11:58,332 Thomas, we're alone. I give you my word, there's no one here. 78 00:11:58,432 --> 00:12:00,851 I didn't suppose there was, Your Grace. 79 00:12:04,438 --> 00:12:08,133 Do you favor a change of dynasty? Do you think two Tudors are sufficient? 80 00:12:08,233 --> 00:12:09,426 For God's sake, Your Grace! 81 00:12:09,526 --> 00:12:13,030 Then he needs a son. I repeat, what are you going to do about it? 82 00:12:13,155 --> 00:12:14,390 I pray for it daily. 83 00:12:14,490 --> 00:12:16,784 God's death, he means it. 84 00:12:17,576 --> 00:12:20,829 That thing out there, at least she's fertile. 85 00:12:21,663 --> 00:12:24,274 - But she's not his wife. - No, Catherine's his wife... 86 00:12:24,374 --> 00:12:27,735 and she's barren as a brick. Are you going to pray for a miracle? 87 00:12:27,835 --> 00:12:29,420 There are precedents. 88 00:12:33,424 --> 00:12:37,011 All right. Good. Pray by all means. 89 00:12:38,304 --> 00:12:43,893 But in addition to prayer there is effort. And my effort is to secure a divorce. 90 00:12:47,522 --> 00:12:49,816 Have I your support, or have I not? 91 00:12:53,361 --> 00:12:57,240 The Pope gave a dispensation, so that the King might marry... 92 00:12:57,365 --> 00:12:59,950 his brother's widow for state reasons. 93 00:13:00,659 --> 00:13:06,023 We are to ask the Pope to dispense with his dispensation, also for state reasons? 94 00:13:06,123 --> 00:13:08,275 I don't like plodding, Thomas. Well? 95 00:13:08,375 --> 00:13:12,571 Then, clearly all we have to do is to approach His Holiness and ask him. 96 00:13:12,671 --> 00:13:15,841 I think we might influence the decision of His Holiness. 97 00:13:16,591 --> 00:13:17,659 By argument? 98 00:13:17,759 --> 00:13:21,638 Argument certainly. And pressure. 99 00:13:22,931 --> 00:13:27,185 Pressure, applied to the Church? The Church has its church property. 100 00:13:29,271 --> 00:13:30,439 Pressure. 101 00:13:37,111 --> 00:13:40,614 No, Your Grace, I'm not going to help you. 102 00:13:43,492 --> 00:13:46,745 Then goodnight, Master More. 103 00:13:50,082 --> 00:13:55,004 Let the dynasty die with Henry VIII and we'll have dynastic wars again. 104 00:13:55,337 --> 00:13:58,549 Blood-witted barons ramping the country from end to end. 105 00:13:59,383 --> 00:14:02,970 Is that what you want? Very well. 106 00:14:04,054 --> 00:14:06,015 England needs an heir. 107 00:14:07,433 --> 00:14:11,770 Certain measures, perhaps regrettable... 108 00:14:12,479 --> 00:14:16,399 perhaps not, there's much in the Church which needs reformation, Thomas. 109 00:14:18,610 --> 00:14:22,697 All right, regrettable. But necessary to get us an heir. 110 00:14:24,949 --> 00:14:28,937 Now, explain how you, as a councilor of England, can obstruct these measures... 111 00:14:29,037 --> 00:14:31,915 for the sake of your own private conscience. 112 00:14:34,042 --> 00:14:37,837 I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience... 113 00:14:37,962 --> 00:14:40,507 for the sake of their public duties... 114 00:14:40,632 --> 00:14:44,301 they lead their country by a short route to chaos. 115 00:14:48,305 --> 00:14:50,974 And we shall have my prayers to fall back on. 116 00:14:51,683 --> 00:14:55,896 You'd like that, wouldn't you? To govern the country with prayers? 117 00:14:56,438 --> 00:14:57,689 Yes, I should. 118 00:14:58,524 --> 00:15:00,692 I'd like to be there when you try. 119 00:15:03,028 --> 00:15:04,947 Who will wear this after me? 120 00:15:06,532 --> 00:15:10,953 Who's our next chancellor? You? Fisher? Suffolk? 121 00:15:11,412 --> 00:15:13,580 - Fisher for me. - Aye, but for the King? 122 00:15:13,997 --> 00:15:17,208 What about my secretary, Master Cromwell? 123 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:21,921 Cromwell. He's a very able man. 124 00:15:23,381 --> 00:15:24,215 But? 125 00:15:24,966 --> 00:15:27,260 Me rather than Cromwell. 126 00:15:28,052 --> 00:15:30,054 Then, come down to earth. 127 00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:34,142 Until you do... 128 00:15:36,602 --> 00:15:38,521 you and I are enemies. 129 00:15:40,398 --> 00:15:41,941 As Your Grace wishes. 130 00:15:44,861 --> 00:15:46,279 As God wills. 131 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,489 Perhaps, Your Grace. 132 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:53,535 More! You should have been a cleric! 133 00:15:54,369 --> 00:15:56,163 Like yourself, Your Grace? 134 00:16:10,093 --> 00:16:11,720 Goodnight, Sir Thomas. 135 00:16:18,852 --> 00:16:19,978 Sir Thomas. 136 00:16:20,854 --> 00:16:22,022 Sir Thomas. 137 00:16:23,148 --> 00:16:24,316 Sir Thomas. 138 00:16:26,650 --> 00:16:29,904 - What's this? - From some grateful poor folk, in Leicester. 139 00:16:30,654 --> 00:16:33,908 - Leicester? - You do more good than you know, sir. 140 00:16:36,118 --> 00:16:40,289 My daughter has a case, sir, in the Court of Poor Man's Causes. 141 00:16:42,041 --> 00:16:43,501 Baked apples, sir. 142 00:16:44,085 --> 00:16:45,795 To sweeten my judgment. 143 00:16:46,545 --> 00:16:49,907 I'll give your daughter the same judgment I would give my own. 144 00:16:50,007 --> 00:16:52,426 A fair one, quickly. 145 00:16:52,843 --> 00:16:54,036 Bless you, sir. 146 00:16:54,136 --> 00:16:57,807 I understand. Yes. I'll read it. Yes. Thank you. 147 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,271 Good evening, Sir Thomas. 148 00:17:06,231 --> 00:17:08,466 - I'll read it. - It's an awkward case. 149 00:17:08,566 --> 00:17:10,844 - I could illuminate it for you... - I'll read it. 150 00:17:10,944 --> 00:17:12,570 Just a moment or two... 151 00:17:14,656 --> 00:17:15,698 Boat! 152 00:17:16,324 --> 00:17:16,866 Sir? 153 00:17:39,596 --> 00:17:40,706 Chelsea, sir? 154 00:17:40,806 --> 00:17:41,849 Chelsea. 155 00:17:42,516 --> 00:17:44,918 I expect you'll make it worth my while, sir. 156 00:17:45,018 --> 00:17:48,422 - You've got a license? - Bless you, yes sir, I've got a license. 157 00:17:48,522 --> 00:17:51,108 - Well then, the fares are fixed. - They are, sir. 158 00:17:51,233 --> 00:17:53,844 Hampton to Chelsea downstream, a penny halfpenny. 159 00:17:53,944 --> 00:17:56,096 Chelsea to Hampton upstream, a penny halfpenny. 160 00:17:56,196 --> 00:17:58,657 Whoever makes the regulations doesn't row a boat. 161 00:17:59,158 --> 00:18:02,686 No. Three pence if you get me home for breakfast. 162 00:18:02,786 --> 00:18:04,079 Thank you, sir. 163 00:18:32,190 --> 00:18:33,566 A nice cup, sir. 164 00:18:35,401 --> 00:18:36,319 Yes. 165 00:18:54,002 --> 00:18:55,712 That's worth money, sir. 166 00:19:33,457 --> 00:19:34,750 Mind a way, sir. 167 00:19:41,382 --> 00:19:42,675 Thank you, sir. 168 00:19:49,890 --> 00:19:52,100 - Have you been here all night? - Yes. 169 00:19:53,685 --> 00:19:56,020 You said there was a post? 170 00:19:56,646 --> 00:20:02,068 Yes. I'll offer you a post, with a house, a servant and £50 a year. 171 00:20:02,402 --> 00:20:03,528 What post? 172 00:20:04,195 --> 00:20:05,947 At the new school. 173 00:20:08,825 --> 00:20:09,951 A teacher! 174 00:20:10,952 --> 00:20:14,038 Richard, no one's going to give you a place at court. 175 00:20:15,749 --> 00:20:18,251 Master Cromwell says he'll do something for me. 176 00:20:19,961 --> 00:20:21,004 Cromwell? 177 00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:25,008 Well, if you know Cromwell you don't need my help. 178 00:20:26,467 --> 00:20:27,634 Sir Thomas? 179 00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:34,183 If only you knew how much, much rather, I had your help than his. 180 00:20:36,268 --> 00:20:38,020 Not to a place at court. 181 00:20:38,937 --> 00:20:40,022 Why not? 182 00:20:42,483 --> 00:20:43,400 Look. 183 00:20:44,943 --> 00:20:47,529 - What is it? - It's a bribe! 184 00:20:50,282 --> 00:20:53,410 "I am the gift of Averil Machin." 185 00:20:54,787 --> 00:20:58,082 And Averil Machin has a lawsuit in the Court of Requests. 186 00:20:58,957 --> 00:21:03,711 Italian silver. Take it. No joke. 187 00:21:06,339 --> 00:21:07,465 Thank you. 188 00:21:10,593 --> 00:21:12,095 What will you do with it? 189 00:21:12,887 --> 00:21:13,538 Sell it. 190 00:21:13,638 --> 00:21:15,973 - And buy what? - A decent gown! 191 00:21:17,183 --> 00:21:19,393 But Richard, that's a little bribe. 192 00:21:20,144 --> 00:21:25,608 At court they offer you all sorts of things, home, manor houses, coats of arms. 193 00:21:26,317 --> 00:21:28,861 A man should go where he won't be tempted. 194 00:21:29,904 --> 00:21:34,741 Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps a great one. 195 00:21:35,867 --> 00:21:40,414 - If I was, who would know it? - You! Your pupils. Your friends. 196 00:21:40,789 --> 00:21:43,583 God. Not a bad public, that. 197 00:21:47,587 --> 00:21:49,464 And a quiet life. 198 00:21:49,798 --> 00:21:52,701 You say that. You come from talking with the Cardinal. 199 00:21:52,801 --> 00:21:55,220 Yes, talking with the Cardinal. 200 00:21:56,471 --> 00:21:59,958 It's eating your heart out, isn't it? The high affairs of state. 201 00:22:00,058 --> 00:22:01,268 The divorce? 202 00:22:02,561 --> 00:22:03,729 Boatman! 203 00:22:04,229 --> 00:22:05,105 Sir? 204 00:22:05,230 --> 00:22:07,841 - Take this gentleman to the New Inn! - Right, sir. 205 00:22:07,941 --> 00:22:09,316 Sir Thomas? 206 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:11,485 Thank you. 207 00:22:12,903 --> 00:22:14,530 Be a teacher. 208 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:25,941 - Matthew. - Sir. 209 00:22:26,041 --> 00:22:27,960 - Lady Alice in bed? - Yes, sir. 210 00:22:28,461 --> 00:22:30,004 - Lady Margaret? - No, sir. 211 00:22:30,463 --> 00:22:32,365 The Master Roper's here, sir. 212 00:22:32,465 --> 00:22:34,425 At this hour? Who let him in? 213 00:22:35,217 --> 00:22:37,386 He's a hard man to keep out, sir. 214 00:23:00,867 --> 00:23:02,952 Will wants to marry me, Father. 215 00:23:03,828 --> 00:23:05,538 Well, he can't marry you. 216 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,025 Sir Thomas, I'm called to the Bar. 217 00:23:09,125 --> 00:23:11,753 Oh, congratulations, Roper. 218 00:23:12,087 --> 00:23:14,464 My family may not be at the palace, but in the city... 219 00:23:14,756 --> 00:23:17,008 There's nothing wrong with your family, Will. 220 00:23:18,801 --> 00:23:20,886 There's not much wrong with you. 221 00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:24,181 Except you seem to need a clock. 222 00:23:24,848 --> 00:23:26,558 I can buy a clock, sir. 223 00:23:26,809 --> 00:23:28,335 Roper, the answer is no... 224 00:23:28,435 --> 00:23:31,005 and will be no as long as you're a heretic. 225 00:23:31,105 --> 00:23:33,340 Now, that's a word I don't like, Sir Thomas! 226 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,384 It's not a likeable word or thing. 227 00:23:35,484 --> 00:23:39,096 The Church is heretical! Dr. Luther's proved that to my satisfaction! 228 00:23:39,196 --> 00:23:40,931 Luther is an excommunicate! 229 00:23:41,031 --> 00:23:43,951 From a heretic Church! Church? It's a shop! 230 00:23:44,243 --> 00:23:47,621 - Salvation by the shilling! And divorces! - Will, no! 231 00:23:47,788 --> 00:23:50,916 - What I know, I'll say! - You've no sense of the place! 232 00:23:52,083 --> 00:23:53,876 He's no sense of the time. 233 00:23:54,460 --> 00:23:56,087 Now listen well. 234 00:23:56,462 --> 00:23:58,990 Two years ago you were a passionate churchman. 235 00:23:59,090 --> 00:24:01,034 Now you're a passionate Lutheran. 236 00:24:01,134 --> 00:24:04,162 We must just pray that when your head's finished turning... 237 00:24:04,262 --> 00:24:06,472 your face is to the front again. 238 00:24:08,516 --> 00:24:11,144 - Is your horse here? - No, sir, I walked. 239 00:24:12,145 --> 00:24:14,897 Well, take a horse from the stables and get back home. 240 00:24:16,816 --> 00:24:17,859 Go along. 241 00:24:19,485 --> 00:24:20,903 May I come again? 242 00:24:23,239 --> 00:24:25,199 Yes. Soon. 243 00:24:30,746 --> 00:24:32,372 Is that final, Father? 244 00:24:32,622 --> 00:24:35,459 As long as he's a heretic, Meg, that's absolute. 245 00:24:39,379 --> 00:24:41,131 What did Wolsey want? 246 00:24:44,384 --> 00:24:45,969 Nice boy, young Will. 247 00:24:48,305 --> 00:24:50,724 Terribly strong principles, though. 248 00:24:51,808 --> 00:24:53,310 Clumsy, too. 249 00:24:54,102 --> 00:24:56,938 - You're very pensive. - You're very gay. 250 00:24:57,522 --> 00:24:59,024 Was it the divorce? 251 00:25:00,691 --> 00:25:01,734 To bed. 252 00:25:02,651 --> 00:25:07,031 They're a cantankerous lot, the Ropers. Always swimming against the stream. 253 00:25:07,239 --> 00:25:09,408 Old Roper was just the same... 254 00:25:10,951 --> 00:25:13,037 You don't want to talk about it. 255 00:25:13,954 --> 00:25:14,872 No. 256 00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:23,756 - I'm sorry you were awakened, chick. - I wasn't sleeping very deeply. 257 00:25:24,215 --> 00:25:25,800 What did Wolsey want? 258 00:25:27,968 --> 00:25:30,596 - Will Roper's been. - Will Roper? 259 00:25:30,846 --> 00:25:33,708 Yes, he's been here all night. He wants to marry Meg. 260 00:25:33,808 --> 00:25:36,351 - Why you don't beat that girl I... - No. 261 00:25:36,893 --> 00:25:40,522 She's full of education and it's a delicate commodity. 262 00:25:41,231 --> 00:25:42,524 Goodnight, Meg. 263 00:25:42,816 --> 00:25:43,942 Goodnight. 264 00:25:48,113 --> 00:25:50,932 Marry Meg. A lawyer's son. 265 00:25:51,032 --> 00:25:52,867 Well, she's a lawyer's daughter. 266 00:25:56,287 --> 00:26:00,625 Norfolk spoke of you for Chancellor of England before he left. 267 00:26:01,501 --> 00:26:03,420 Well, he's a dangerous friend then. 268 00:26:04,504 --> 00:26:06,673 Wolsey's chancellor, God help him. 269 00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:09,117 But Norfolk said, if Wolsey fell, you... 270 00:26:09,217 --> 00:26:13,178 If Wolsey fell, the splash would swamp a few small boats like ours. 271 00:26:13,679 --> 00:26:14,722 No. 272 00:26:15,305 --> 00:26:18,308 There'll be no new chancellors while Wolsey lives. 273 00:27:08,483 --> 00:27:11,194 The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England. 274 00:27:25,874 --> 00:27:28,210 Have you any message for His Majesty? 275 00:27:30,670 --> 00:27:32,297 If I had served God... 276 00:27:32,714 --> 00:27:35,467 one half so well as I've served my King... 277 00:27:36,676 --> 00:27:40,931 God would not have left me here, to die in this place. 278 00:27:42,724 --> 00:27:46,686 Thank God you're dying here. The King would have you die in the Tower. 279 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,004 "I am straightly charged by the King himself... 280 00:28:14,797 --> 00:28:18,426 "here openly to declare how much all England... 281 00:28:18,551 --> 00:28:20,720 "is beholden to this man. 282 00:28:21,137 --> 00:28:25,975 "And how worthy he is to have the highest room in the realm. 283 00:28:26,475 --> 00:28:30,478 "And how dearly the King's grace doth love and trust him... 284 00:28:31,438 --> 00:28:33,773 "not only for much good council... 285 00:28:34,190 --> 00:28:37,819 "deliberate council, but for better council yet... 286 00:28:38,570 --> 00:28:41,281 "that which is privy to the King's person. 287 00:28:42,449 --> 00:28:44,534 "This same Sir Thomas More... 288 00:28:44,826 --> 00:28:47,579 "here made before you all to be... 289 00:28:48,163 --> 00:28:50,957 "Lord Chancellor of the Realm." 290 00:30:30,554 --> 00:30:32,080 Calm yourself, Matthew. 291 00:30:32,180 --> 00:30:33,849 Fetch Lady Alice. 292 00:30:46,235 --> 00:30:47,945 That's very well. 293 00:30:52,450 --> 00:30:54,285 My lady! The King! 294 00:31:59,681 --> 00:32:01,834 Now remember, the visit's a surprise. 295 00:32:01,934 --> 00:32:03,794 But he'll know we're expecting him... 296 00:32:03,894 --> 00:32:06,630 It's a very great honor. One friend calling on another. 297 00:32:06,730 --> 00:32:08,382 What's he really coming for? 298 00:32:08,482 --> 00:32:10,843 To talk about the divorce. He wants an answer. 299 00:32:10,943 --> 00:32:13,387 - But he's had his answer. - He wants another. 300 00:32:13,487 --> 00:32:14,488 Thomas! 301 00:32:21,870 --> 00:32:25,774 Your Majesty does my house more honor than I fear my household will bear. 302 00:32:25,874 --> 00:32:28,084 No ceremony Thomas, no ceremony! 303 00:32:28,209 --> 00:32:30,778 A passing fancy. I happened to be on the river. 304 00:32:30,878 --> 00:32:32,213 Look. Mud. 305 00:32:36,217 --> 00:32:39,220 By heaven, what an evening. 306 00:32:40,179 --> 00:32:43,082 Lady Alice, I fear we came upon you unexpectedly. 307 00:32:43,182 --> 00:32:45,768 Yes, Your Grace. Well, no, Your Grace. 308 00:32:46,060 --> 00:32:48,296 Well, that is, we are ready to entertain... 309 00:32:48,396 --> 00:32:50,815 This is my daughter Margaret, sire. 310 00:32:52,567 --> 00:32:55,403 She's not yet had the honor to meet Your Grace. 311 00:32:55,611 --> 00:32:58,740 Why Margaret, they told me you were a scholar. 312 00:32:59,532 --> 00:33:01,241 Answer, Margaret. 313 00:33:01,450 --> 00:33:04,202 Among women, I pass for one, Your Grace. 314 00:33:35,233 --> 00:33:36,984 Can you dance, too? 315 00:33:37,693 --> 00:33:39,278 Not well, Your Grace. 316 00:33:41,405 --> 00:33:43,574 Well, I dance superlatively! 317 00:33:44,492 --> 00:33:46,911 That's a dancer's leg, Margaret! 318 00:34:00,007 --> 00:34:02,243 Lady Alice, the river's given me an appetite. 319 00:34:02,343 --> 00:34:05,496 If Your Grace would share a very simple supper. 320 00:34:05,596 --> 00:34:07,665 It would please me. Lead them in. 321 00:34:07,765 --> 00:34:09,208 Thomas and I will follow. 322 00:34:09,308 --> 00:34:10,683 Matthew. 323 00:34:11,101 --> 00:34:13,395 My lords and gentlemen! 324 00:34:19,025 --> 00:34:20,318 Margaret? 325 00:34:20,610 --> 00:34:21,970 Your Grace? 326 00:34:22,070 --> 00:34:23,696 Do you like music? 327 00:34:23,822 --> 00:34:25,407 Yes, Your Grace. 328 00:34:25,907 --> 00:34:27,742 They'll play to you. 329 00:34:51,390 --> 00:34:53,892 Now, listen to this. 330 00:34:56,645 --> 00:34:57,980 Sit down. 331 00:34:59,773 --> 00:35:02,067 Be seated. No courtship, Thomas. 332 00:35:06,447 --> 00:35:08,741 You're my friend, are you not? 333 00:35:09,283 --> 00:35:10,309 Your Majesty. 334 00:35:10,409 --> 00:35:12,937 Thank God I have a friend for my chancellor. 335 00:35:13,037 --> 00:35:16,065 Readier to befriend, I trust, than he was to be chancellor. 336 00:35:16,165 --> 00:35:18,359 My own knowledge of my poor abilities... 337 00:35:18,459 --> 00:35:20,752 I will judge of your abilities. 338 00:35:21,669 --> 00:35:22,712 Thomas? 339 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,760 You know that Wolsey named you for chancellor? 340 00:35:29,844 --> 00:35:34,057 Before he died, Wolsey named you, and Wolsey was no fool. 341 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:38,269 He was a statesman of incomparable ability, Your Grace. 342 00:35:40,563 --> 00:35:41,814 Was he? 343 00:35:43,232 --> 00:35:44,609 Was he so? 344 00:35:45,693 --> 00:35:47,737 Then, why did he fail me? 345 00:35:50,364 --> 00:35:52,200 It was villainy then. 346 00:35:52,784 --> 00:35:55,185 Yes, villainy. Secret opposition, secret. 347 00:35:55,285 --> 00:35:58,689 But deliberate, willful, meditated opposition. 348 00:35:58,789 --> 00:36:01,316 Wanted to be pope to master me, Wolsey. 349 00:36:01,416 --> 00:36:02,901 What is it? Thought! 350 00:36:03,001 --> 00:36:07,447 Because I'm simple and plain and deal with every man straightforwardly. 351 00:36:07,547 --> 00:36:11,468 Because of that I say, do they take me for a simpleton? 352 00:36:16,431 --> 00:36:21,228 Wolsey was a proud man, Thomas. 353 00:36:22,312 --> 00:36:23,897 Pride right through. 354 00:36:24,147 --> 00:36:25,565 And he failed me. 355 00:36:26,733 --> 00:36:30,069 Failed me in the one thing that matters, then as now. 356 00:36:33,864 --> 00:36:34,990 But look. 357 00:36:35,950 --> 00:36:37,118 Be seated. 358 00:36:42,498 --> 00:36:43,874 What an evening. 359 00:36:45,084 --> 00:36:47,211 A man could fight a lion. 360 00:36:47,628 --> 00:36:49,755 Some men could, Your Grace. 361 00:36:51,090 --> 00:36:52,258 Thomas... 362 00:36:53,384 --> 00:36:56,053 touching this matter of my divorce. 363 00:36:56,470 --> 00:36:58,706 Have you thought of it since we last spoke? 364 00:36:58,806 --> 00:36:59,874 Of little else. 365 00:36:59,974 --> 00:37:01,833 Then you see your way clear to me? 366 00:37:01,933 --> 00:37:04,811 That you should put away Queen Catherine, sire? 367 00:37:05,061 --> 00:37:07,130 Alas, as I think of it, I see so clearly... 368 00:37:07,230 --> 00:37:10,342 that I cannot come with Your Grace, that my endeavor is... 369 00:37:10,442 --> 00:37:11,801 not to think of it at all. 370 00:37:11,901 --> 00:37:14,320 Then you haven't thought enough! 371 00:37:21,494 --> 00:37:22,704 Lilac. 372 00:37:24,247 --> 00:37:25,957 We have them at Hampton. 373 00:37:26,875 --> 00:37:28,710 Not so fine as this, though. 374 00:37:31,046 --> 00:37:33,590 I'm in an excellent frame of mind. 375 00:37:38,260 --> 00:37:42,039 Thomas, you must consider, I stand in peril of my soul. 376 00:37:42,139 --> 00:37:43,640 It was no marriage. 377 00:37:44,183 --> 00:37:47,352 I have lived in incest with my brother's widow. 378 00:37:48,312 --> 00:37:53,342 Leviticus: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife." 379 00:37:53,442 --> 00:37:55,761 Leviticus. Chapter 18, verse 16. 380 00:37:55,861 --> 00:37:57,721 Yes, Your Grace. But Deuteronomy... 381 00:37:57,821 --> 00:37:59,807 Deuteronomy is ambiguous! 382 00:37:59,907 --> 00:38:02,559 Your Grace, I'm not fitted to meddle in these matters. 383 00:38:02,659 --> 00:38:04,770 To me, it seems a matter for the Holy See... 384 00:38:04,870 --> 00:38:08,624 Thomas, does a man need a pope to tell him where he's sinned? 385 00:38:10,291 --> 00:38:11,793 It was a sin. 386 00:38:12,627 --> 00:38:14,379 God's punished me. 387 00:38:15,380 --> 00:38:16,839 I've no son. 388 00:38:18,299 --> 00:38:20,118 Son after son she's borne me. 389 00:38:20,218 --> 00:38:23,221 All dead at birth, or dead within the month. 390 00:38:23,388 --> 00:38:26,082 I never saw the hand of God so clear in anything. 391 00:38:26,182 --> 00:38:28,334 It's my bounden duty to put away the Queen. 392 00:38:28,434 --> 00:38:32,021 And all the popes, back to Peter, shall not come between me and my duty! 393 00:38:34,565 --> 00:38:37,051 How is it that you cannot see? Everyone else does. 394 00:38:37,151 --> 00:38:40,279 Then, why does Your Grace need my poor support? 395 00:38:40,780 --> 00:38:42,198 Because you're honest. 396 00:38:42,699 --> 00:38:45,517 And what is more to the purpose, you're known to be honest. 397 00:38:45,617 --> 00:38:48,145 Those like Norfolk follow me because I wear the crown. 398 00:38:48,245 --> 00:38:51,690 Those like Cromwell follow because they're jackals with sharp teeth... 399 00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:53,984 and I'm their tiger. A mass follows me... 400 00:38:54,084 --> 00:38:56,044 because it follows anything that moves. 401 00:38:58,588 --> 00:38:59,840 And then there's you. 402 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,470 I am sick to think how much I must displease Your Grace. 403 00:39:06,096 --> 00:39:09,808 No, Thomas, I respect your sincerity. 404 00:39:13,145 --> 00:39:14,771 But respect... 405 00:39:15,397 --> 00:39:18,191 man, that's water in the desert. 406 00:39:23,738 --> 00:39:25,139 How'd you like our music? 407 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,350 That air they played, it had a certain... 408 00:39:27,450 --> 00:39:29,936 Well, tell me what you thought of it. 409 00:39:30,036 --> 00:39:32,288 Could it have been Your Grace's own? 410 00:39:32,663 --> 00:39:33,831 Discovered! 411 00:39:34,665 --> 00:39:37,610 Now I'll never know your true opinion, and that's irksome. 412 00:39:37,710 --> 00:39:41,172 Well, we artists, we love praise, yet we love truth better. 413 00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:43,741 - Then I will tell my true opinion. - Well? 414 00:39:43,841 --> 00:39:47,053 To me it seemed delightful. 415 00:39:48,971 --> 00:39:53,166 Thomas, I chose the right man for chancellor. 416 00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:57,520 I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. 417 00:39:58,354 --> 00:40:00,590 Your taste in music is excellent! 418 00:40:00,690 --> 00:40:02,901 It exactly coincides with my own. 419 00:40:07,322 --> 00:40:08,531 Music. 420 00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:11,409 Music. 421 00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:16,606 Send them back without me, Thomas. I'll live here in Chelsea and make music. 422 00:40:16,706 --> 00:40:18,900 My house is at Your Grace's disposal. 423 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,503 Touching this other business, mark you... 424 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,799 I'll have no opposition. 425 00:40:27,549 --> 00:40:28,951 Your Grace. 426 00:40:29,051 --> 00:40:33,305 No opposition, I say. No opposition. 427 00:40:34,264 --> 00:40:35,641 Be seated. 428 00:40:38,685 --> 00:40:43,148 I'll leave you out of it but you are my chancellor. 429 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,404 I don't take it kindly and I'll have no opposition! 430 00:40:50,906 --> 00:40:52,783 I see how it will be. 431 00:40:53,992 --> 00:40:56,161 The bishops will oppose me! 432 00:40:56,578 --> 00:41:01,208 The full-fed princes of the Church! Hypocrites! All hypocrites! 433 00:41:01,375 --> 00:41:03,710 Mind they do not take you in, Thomas! 434 00:41:03,835 --> 00:41:05,403 Your Grace is unjust. 435 00:41:05,503 --> 00:41:08,615 If I cannot serve Your Grace in this great matter of the Queen. 436 00:41:08,715 --> 00:41:11,092 I have no queen! 437 00:41:11,759 --> 00:41:13,803 Catherine's not my wife! 438 00:41:14,554 --> 00:41:16,681 No priest can make her so. 439 00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:21,102 They that say she is my wife are not only liars, but traitors! 440 00:41:23,104 --> 00:41:24,647 Yes, traitors! 441 00:41:25,481 --> 00:41:27,275 That I will not brook now! 442 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:29,068 Treachery! 443 00:41:30,194 --> 00:41:31,387 I will not brook. 444 00:41:31,487 --> 00:41:32,822 It maddens me! 445 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:38,827 It is a deadly canker in the body politic, and I will have it out! 446 00:41:48,670 --> 00:41:49,796 See? 447 00:41:51,965 --> 00:41:54,259 You see how you've maddened me? 448 00:41:54,843 --> 00:41:57,137 I hardly know myself. 449 00:42:04,978 --> 00:42:08,048 If you could come with me, there's no man I'd sooner raise... 450 00:42:08,148 --> 00:42:10,025 yes, with my own hand. 451 00:42:10,359 --> 00:42:12,443 Your Grace overwhelms me. 452 00:42:22,370 --> 00:42:23,829 What's that? 453 00:42:24,330 --> 00:42:25,998 Eight o'clock, Your Grace. 454 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,877 Lift yourself up, man. 455 00:42:33,839 --> 00:42:36,550 Have I not promised I'll leave you out of it? 456 00:42:38,177 --> 00:42:39,470 Shall we eat? 457 00:42:39,595 --> 00:42:41,222 If Your Grace pleases. 458 00:42:45,558 --> 00:42:47,102 Eight o'clock, you said. 459 00:42:48,687 --> 00:42:50,438 The tide will be turning. 460 00:42:50,814 --> 00:42:53,983 - I was forgetting the tide. I must go. - I'm sorry, Your Grace. 461 00:42:54,484 --> 00:42:57,429 If I don't catch the tide I'll not get back to Richmond. 462 00:42:57,529 --> 00:42:59,072 No, don't come. 463 00:43:02,659 --> 00:43:06,313 Lady Alice, I must go and catch the tide. Affairs call me to court. 464 00:43:06,413 --> 00:43:09,082 So we give you our thanks and we say goodnight! 465 00:43:31,437 --> 00:43:32,730 What's this? 466 00:43:33,313 --> 00:43:35,174 - You crossed him! - Somewhat. 467 00:43:35,274 --> 00:43:37,384 - Why? - I couldn't find the other way. 468 00:43:37,484 --> 00:43:39,511 You're too nice altogether, Thomas. 469 00:43:39,611 --> 00:43:43,115 - Woman, mind your house! - I am minding my house! 470 00:43:46,452 --> 00:43:48,370 God save Your Majesty! 471 00:43:49,705 --> 00:43:51,540 God save Your Grace! 472 00:43:58,713 --> 00:44:00,465 God save the King! 473 00:44:03,259 --> 00:44:04,552 Lift! 474 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,770 Drop blades! 475 00:44:16,314 --> 00:44:18,566 Sire! Sire! Sire! 476 00:44:50,430 --> 00:44:52,683 Are you coming my way, Rich? 477 00:44:54,976 --> 00:44:56,061 No. 478 00:44:58,063 --> 00:45:00,315 I think you should, you know. 479 00:45:00,774 --> 00:45:02,900 I can't tell you anything. 480 00:45:09,573 --> 00:45:10,741 Well? 481 00:45:23,421 --> 00:45:24,672 Thomas? 482 00:45:27,133 --> 00:45:28,926 Stay friends with him. 483 00:45:30,428 --> 00:45:34,181 Whatever may be done by smiling, you may rely on me to do. 484 00:45:41,438 --> 00:45:43,606 Set your mind at rest. 485 00:45:43,898 --> 00:45:47,152 This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made. 486 00:45:56,828 --> 00:45:59,831 Good evening, sir, Lady Alice. 487 00:46:01,249 --> 00:46:03,209 Will wants to talk to you, Father. 488 00:46:04,711 --> 00:46:06,613 I told him it wouldn't be convenient. 489 00:46:06,713 --> 00:46:07,714 You were quite right. 490 00:46:08,506 --> 00:46:11,425 You're very free with my daughter's hand, Roper. 491 00:46:11,967 --> 00:46:12,843 Yes. 492 00:46:13,469 --> 00:46:15,387 It's of that I wish to speak. 493 00:46:15,763 --> 00:46:18,682 Sir, you've had a disagreement with His Majesty. 494 00:46:19,558 --> 00:46:21,877 - Have I? - So Meg tells me. 495 00:46:21,977 --> 00:46:23,937 I offer my congratulations. 496 00:46:24,313 --> 00:46:27,216 If it's true, is it a matter for congratulation? 497 00:46:27,316 --> 00:46:28,359 Yes! 498 00:46:31,737 --> 00:46:36,408 Sir, when last I asked you for your daughter's hand... 499 00:46:36,658 --> 00:46:39,870 you objected to my unorthodox opinions. 500 00:46:40,412 --> 00:46:41,605 - I did. - Yes. 501 00:46:41,705 --> 00:46:44,375 Well, since then my views have somewhat modified. 502 00:46:48,878 --> 00:46:50,671 Well, that's good hearing, Will. 503 00:46:51,631 --> 00:46:55,326 Mind you, I modify nothing concerning the various corruptions in the Church. 504 00:46:55,426 --> 00:46:58,246 - Quite right. - But an attack upon the Church herself... 505 00:46:58,346 --> 00:47:00,873 no. I see behind that an attack on God. 506 00:47:00,973 --> 00:47:02,458 - Roper! - The Devil's work... 507 00:47:02,558 --> 00:47:04,335 to be done by the Devil's ministers! 508 00:47:04,435 --> 00:47:06,337 For heaven's sake, remember my office. 509 00:47:06,437 --> 00:47:07,880 If you stand on your office... 510 00:47:07,980 --> 00:47:12,193 No, I don't stand on it, but there are certain things I may not hear. 511 00:47:12,902 --> 00:47:13,569 Sir Thomas. 512 00:47:16,114 --> 00:47:17,407 Richard? 513 00:47:18,157 --> 00:47:19,324 I fell. 514 00:47:21,159 --> 00:47:22,411 Lady Alice. 515 00:47:22,744 --> 00:47:24,313 - Lady Margaret. - Good evening. 516 00:47:24,413 --> 00:47:26,832 Do you know William Roper, the younger? 517 00:47:26,998 --> 00:47:28,875 By reputation, of course. 518 00:47:29,126 --> 00:47:31,420 - Good evening, Master... - Rich. 519 00:47:38,927 --> 00:47:40,429 You've heard of me? 520 00:47:40,679 --> 00:47:41,805 Yes. 521 00:47:42,139 --> 00:47:45,559 In what connection? I don't know what you can have heard. 522 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,608 I sense that I'm not welcome here. 523 00:47:53,858 --> 00:47:56,928 Why Richard? Have you done something to make you not welcome? 524 00:47:57,028 --> 00:47:58,387 Cromwell is asking questions. 525 00:47:58,487 --> 00:48:01,907 About you. He's always asking questions about you and your opinions. 526 00:48:02,408 --> 00:48:03,701 Of whom? 527 00:48:04,744 --> 00:48:06,996 Of him, for one. That's one of his sources. 528 00:48:08,664 --> 00:48:11,042 Of course. That's one of my servants. 529 00:48:12,710 --> 00:48:14,336 All right, Matthew. 530 00:48:19,342 --> 00:48:21,761 Well, you look at me as though I were an enemy. 531 00:48:24,388 --> 00:48:26,349 Why Richard, you're shaking. 532 00:48:28,099 --> 00:48:29,392 Help me. 533 00:48:30,310 --> 00:48:31,311 How? 534 00:48:31,436 --> 00:48:32,729 Employ me. 535 00:48:33,438 --> 00:48:34,522 No. 536 00:48:35,065 --> 00:48:36,858 - Employ me! - No. 537 00:48:52,457 --> 00:48:54,292 I would be faithful. 538 00:48:58,046 --> 00:49:02,217 You couldn't answer for yourself even so far as tonight. 539 00:49:14,353 --> 00:49:15,562 Arrest him! 540 00:49:15,688 --> 00:49:17,172 - For what? - He's dangerous! 541 00:49:17,272 --> 00:49:19,049 - Libel. He's a spy! - That man's bad! 542 00:49:19,149 --> 00:49:21,343 - There's no law against that. - God's law! 543 00:49:21,443 --> 00:49:24,013 - Then God can arrest him. - While you talk, he's gone! 544 00:49:24,113 --> 00:49:27,141 Go he should, if he were the Devil, until he broke the law. 545 00:49:27,241 --> 00:49:30,894 - Now you give the Devil benefit of law! - Yes, what would you do? 546 00:49:30,994 --> 00:49:33,522 Cut a road through the law to get after the Devil? 547 00:49:33,622 --> 00:49:36,583 Yes. I'd cut down every law in England to do that. 548 00:49:37,417 --> 00:49:40,486 And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned on you... 549 00:49:40,586 --> 00:49:43,615 where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? 550 00:49:43,715 --> 00:49:46,409 This country is planted with laws from coast to coast... 551 00:49:46,509 --> 00:49:49,120 Man's laws, not God's, and if you cut them down... 552 00:49:49,220 --> 00:49:50,955 and you're just the man to do it... 553 00:49:51,055 --> 00:49:55,560 do you really think you could stand upright in the wind that would blow then? 554 00:49:56,519 --> 00:49:57,337 Yes. 555 00:49:57,437 --> 00:50:01,733 I give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake. 556 00:50:39,644 --> 00:50:41,396 - Master Rich? - Yes. 557 00:50:41,521 --> 00:50:43,065 In there, sir. 558 00:50:49,111 --> 00:50:51,155 Rich? Come in. 559 00:50:55,201 --> 00:50:57,311 Taken you long enough to get here. 560 00:50:57,411 --> 00:50:59,121 Have I kept you waiting? 561 00:51:00,331 --> 00:51:01,582 Months. 562 00:51:03,959 --> 00:51:06,170 - Here. - Thank you. 563 00:51:07,588 --> 00:51:09,131 Do you know the news? 564 00:51:09,465 --> 00:51:12,593 - What news? - Sir Thomas Paget is retiring. 565 00:51:14,136 --> 00:51:16,222 And I succeed him. 566 00:51:17,431 --> 00:51:19,166 Secretary to the Council? 567 00:51:19,266 --> 00:51:20,392 You? 568 00:51:20,934 --> 00:51:22,644 'Tis surprising, isn't it? 569 00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:26,815 I mean, one sees that's logical. 570 00:51:28,775 --> 00:51:31,653 Sit down, Rich. No ceremony, no courtship... 571 00:51:31,778 --> 00:51:33,863 as His Majesty would say. 572 00:51:37,325 --> 00:51:39,119 You see how I trust you. 573 00:51:40,078 --> 00:51:42,831 I'd never repeat or report a thing like that. 574 00:51:44,124 --> 00:51:46,918 What kind of thing would you repeat or report? 575 00:51:49,004 --> 00:51:50,797 Nothing said in friendship. 576 00:51:51,214 --> 00:51:52,532 Do you believe that? 577 00:51:52,632 --> 00:51:54,617 - Why, yes. - No, seriously. 578 00:51:54,717 --> 00:51:56,093 Well, yes. 579 00:51:56,427 --> 00:52:00,389 Rich, seriously. 580 00:52:05,602 --> 00:52:08,939 That would depend what I was offered. 581 00:52:10,816 --> 00:52:12,426 Don't say it just to please me. 582 00:52:12,526 --> 00:52:15,237 It's true. It would depend what I was offered. 583 00:52:17,322 --> 00:52:20,284 Well, there is another post vacant. 584 00:52:20,743 --> 00:52:22,953 Collector of Revenues for York. 585 00:52:23,579 --> 00:52:25,189 Is it in your gift? 586 00:52:25,289 --> 00:52:26,665 Effectively. 587 00:52:27,708 --> 00:52:29,500 What must I do for it? 588 00:52:31,919 --> 00:52:35,214 I know a man who wants to change his woman. 589 00:52:36,841 --> 00:52:39,744 Normally a matter of small importance, but in this case... 590 00:52:39,844 --> 00:52:43,014 it's our liege, Lord Henry, the eighth of that name. 591 00:52:43,765 --> 00:52:48,127 Which is a quaint way of saying that if he wants to change his woman, he will. 592 00:52:48,227 --> 00:52:50,396 And our job as administrators... 593 00:52:50,980 --> 00:52:55,318 is to minimize the inconvenience which this is going to cause. 594 00:52:55,443 --> 00:52:59,739 That's our only job, Rich, to minimize the inconvenience of things. 595 00:53:00,198 --> 00:53:03,200 A harmless occupation you would say, but no. 596 00:53:03,450 --> 00:53:06,453 We administrators are not liked, Rich. 597 00:53:06,912 --> 00:53:08,689 We are not popular. 598 00:53:08,789 --> 00:53:13,001 I say "we" on the assumption you'll accept the post at York I've offered you. 599 00:53:17,964 --> 00:53:19,091 Yes. 600 00:53:26,932 --> 00:53:30,294 It's a bad sign when people are depressed by their own good fortune. 601 00:53:30,394 --> 00:53:32,421 - I'm not depressed. - You look depressed. 602 00:53:32,521 --> 00:53:34,923 I was lamenting. I've lost my innocence. 603 00:53:35,023 --> 00:53:37,900 Some time ago. Have you only just noticed? 604 00:53:39,402 --> 00:53:43,572 Your friend, our present Lord Chancellor, now there's an innocent man. 605 00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:47,576 The odd thing is, he is. 606 00:53:47,827 --> 00:53:50,813 Yes, I say he is. Unhappily... 607 00:53:50,913 --> 00:53:53,274 his innocence is tangled up in this problem... 608 00:53:53,374 --> 00:53:56,110 that you can't change your woman without a divorce... 609 00:53:56,210 --> 00:53:59,463 and you can't get a divorce unless the Pope says so. 610 00:53:59,588 --> 00:54:04,135 And from this meaningless circumstance, I foresee a certain measure of... 611 00:54:04,468 --> 00:54:06,762 - Inconvenience? - Just so. 612 00:54:07,847 --> 00:54:10,599 This goblet he gave you, how much was it worth? 613 00:54:12,517 --> 00:54:16,730 Come along, he gave you a silver goblet. How much did you get for it? 614 00:54:17,063 --> 00:54:18,256 Fifty shillings. 615 00:54:18,356 --> 00:54:21,359 It was a gift, wasn't it, from a litigant, a woman? 616 00:54:21,943 --> 00:54:23,945 - Yes. - Which court? Chancery? 617 00:54:25,697 --> 00:54:27,782 Don't get drunk! 618 00:54:28,283 --> 00:54:30,869 Which court was the litigant's case? 619 00:54:32,787 --> 00:54:34,539 Court of Requests. 620 00:54:36,624 --> 00:54:39,377 There. That wasn't too painful, was it? 621 00:54:42,005 --> 00:54:43,423 - No. - No. 622 00:54:43,548 --> 00:54:46,175 And you'll find it easier, next time. 623 00:55:21,584 --> 00:55:24,420 My Lord Archbishop, my lords... 624 00:55:24,796 --> 00:55:27,173 Reverend Doctors of the Church. 625 00:55:27,382 --> 00:55:30,285 The answer of our liege, Lord Henry... 626 00:55:30,385 --> 00:55:32,829 to his trusty well-beloved subjects... 627 00:55:32,929 --> 00:55:35,682 pontiffs in the Canterbury Convocation. 628 00:55:37,392 --> 00:55:38,685 "His Majesty... 629 00:55:38,810 --> 00:55:42,772 "acknowledges your humble admission of many grievous errors... 630 00:55:43,940 --> 00:55:45,383 "for which he accepts... 631 00:55:45,483 --> 00:55:50,154 "the manumission of £100,000 in token. 632 00:55:52,657 --> 00:55:56,476 "Mindful for the well-being of the realm and the quietness of his subjects... 633 00:55:56,576 --> 00:56:00,981 "His Majesty requires that you do now straightly renounce your pretended... 634 00:56:01,081 --> 00:56:03,500 "allegiance to the See of Rome. 635 00:56:04,042 --> 00:56:07,212 "And admit the statute passed through parliament... 636 00:56:07,546 --> 00:56:10,090 "acknowledging the King's good title... 637 00:56:10,674 --> 00:56:13,468 "Supreme Head of the Church in England." 638 00:56:19,099 --> 00:56:22,060 Well, my lords, what's your answer? 639 00:56:24,021 --> 00:56:26,398 Yea or nay? 640 00:56:28,691 --> 00:56:31,235 His Majesty accepts your resignation very sadly. 641 00:56:31,610 --> 00:56:33,971 He's mindful of your goodness and past loyalty. 642 00:56:34,071 --> 00:56:38,576 And in any matter concerning your honor and welfare he'll continue your good lord. 643 00:56:39,952 --> 00:56:42,204 You will convey my humble gratitude. 644 00:56:48,461 --> 00:56:50,880 - Help me with this. - Not I. 645 00:56:54,425 --> 00:56:56,302 - Alice? - No. 646 00:56:57,261 --> 00:57:02,016 Sun and moon, Master More, you're taken for a wise man. Is this wisdom? 647 00:57:02,308 --> 00:57:04,000 To betray your ability... 648 00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:07,771 abandon your station and forget your duty to your kith and kin? 649 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,148 Shall I, sir? 650 00:57:11,816 --> 00:57:14,444 No, thank you, son Roper. 651 00:57:16,279 --> 00:57:17,447 Margaret... 652 00:57:18,740 --> 00:57:20,116 will you? 653 00:57:21,451 --> 00:57:22,702 Yes. 654 00:57:27,832 --> 00:57:29,751 If you want. 655 00:57:34,881 --> 00:57:36,758 There's my clever girl. 656 00:57:40,135 --> 00:57:44,556 Well done, sir! In my opinion, that thing's a degradation. 657 00:57:44,682 --> 00:57:47,251 I'll tell you my opinion of the King's title, too... 658 00:57:47,351 --> 00:57:51,230 Don't! Will, silence! Remember, you have a wife now... 659 00:57:52,106 --> 00:57:53,857 and may have children. 660 00:58:05,703 --> 00:58:07,771 All right, Thomas, make me understand... 661 00:58:07,871 --> 00:58:10,649 because I tell you, to me this looks like cowardice! 662 00:58:10,749 --> 00:58:11,708 All right, I will. 663 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,545 This isn't reformation, this is war against the Church. 664 00:58:15,753 --> 00:58:19,407 Our King has declared war on the Pope because the Pope will not declare... 665 00:58:19,507 --> 00:58:22,385 - ... that our Queen is not his wife. - And is she? 666 00:58:25,471 --> 00:58:26,806 Is she? 667 00:58:29,308 --> 00:58:32,211 Have I your word that what we say here is between us two? 668 00:58:32,311 --> 00:58:33,521 Very well. 669 00:58:33,646 --> 00:58:37,191 And if the King should command you to repeat what I may say? 670 00:58:37,317 --> 00:58:39,277 I should keep my word to you. 671 00:58:39,402 --> 00:58:43,239 Then what has become of your oath of obedience to the King? 672 00:58:45,949 --> 00:58:47,768 You lay traps for me! 673 00:58:47,868 --> 00:58:50,495 No, I show you the times. 674 00:58:53,790 --> 00:58:57,653 We are at war with the Pope. For the Pope's a prince, isn't he? 675 00:58:57,753 --> 00:59:01,782 He is. He's also the descendant of St. Peter, our only link with Christ. 676 00:59:01,882 --> 00:59:05,744 So you believe. And will you forfeit all you have... 677 00:59:05,844 --> 00:59:08,789 which includes the respect of your country, for a belief? 678 00:59:08,889 --> 00:59:12,184 Because what matters is that I believe it, or rather, no... 679 00:59:12,768 --> 00:59:15,937 not that I believe it, but that I believe it. 680 00:59:16,730 --> 00:59:20,108 - I trust I make myself obscure? - Perfectly. 681 00:59:22,860 --> 00:59:26,697 Why do you insult me with this lawyer's chatter? 682 00:59:27,406 --> 00:59:29,325 Because I'm afraid. 683 00:59:29,492 --> 00:59:31,118 Man, you're ill. 684 00:59:33,913 --> 00:59:36,540 This isn't Spain, you know. This is England. 685 00:59:55,975 --> 01:00:00,021 My friends, you all know why I've called you here. 686 01:00:00,772 --> 01:00:04,192 I have today resigned my office. 687 01:00:06,653 --> 01:00:09,656 I am no longer a great man. 688 01:00:10,865 --> 01:00:14,160 Sir, we want you to know that we're all on your side. 689 01:00:14,995 --> 01:00:17,455 My side? What side is that? 690 01:00:17,831 --> 01:00:19,733 Well, sir, we all know what you think. 691 01:00:19,833 --> 01:00:22,319 None of you knows what I think. And if you guess... 692 01:00:22,419 --> 01:00:25,463 and babble it about, you do me no good service. 693 01:00:27,257 --> 01:00:31,118 Since I am no more a great man, I no longer need a great household. 694 01:00:31,218 --> 01:00:36,015 Nor can I afford one. You will have to go. 695 01:00:36,390 --> 01:00:39,460 However, I still number some great men among my friends... 696 01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,837 and they still need great households. 697 01:00:41,937 --> 01:00:45,341 No one will be turned away until we've found another place for him. 698 01:00:45,441 --> 01:00:48,360 - We can't find places for them all. - Yes, we can. 699 01:00:50,571 --> 01:00:52,072 Thank you. 700 01:00:53,365 --> 01:00:54,867 That is all. 701 01:01:05,585 --> 01:01:07,253 What about you, Matthew? 702 01:01:10,923 --> 01:01:12,467 Will you stay? 703 01:01:12,592 --> 01:01:14,535 Well, sir, that's according. 704 01:01:14,635 --> 01:01:17,430 There will be more work and less money. 705 01:01:18,765 --> 01:01:22,794 Well then, I don't see how I can then, sir. After all, I've got my own... 706 01:01:22,894 --> 01:01:26,856 Quite right, Matthew. Why should you? I shall miss you, Matthew. 707 01:01:27,982 --> 01:01:30,777 Oh, no, sir, you see through me, sir. I know that. 708 01:01:35,448 --> 01:01:37,158 I shall miss you. 709 01:01:48,752 --> 01:01:51,046 Damn me! Isn't that them all over! 710 01:01:51,505 --> 01:01:53,865 Miss me? What's in me for him to miss? 711 01:01:53,965 --> 01:01:58,287 "Matthew, will you take a cut in wages?" No, Sir Thomas, I will not. 712 01:01:58,387 --> 01:02:03,308 And that's it. And that's all of it! All right, so he's down on his luck, I'm sorry. 713 01:02:04,101 --> 01:02:06,353 I don't mind saying that I'm sorry, bad luck. 714 01:02:06,645 --> 01:02:08,797 If I had good luck to spare he could have some! 715 01:02:08,897 --> 01:02:10,883 I wish we could have good luck all the time. 716 01:02:10,983 --> 01:02:15,611 I wish rainwater was beer! I wish we had wings! But we don't. 717 01:02:26,747 --> 01:02:29,125 Well, there's an end of you. 718 01:02:30,001 --> 01:02:32,028 What'll you do now? Sit by the fire... 719 01:02:32,128 --> 01:02:34,280 and make goslings in the ash? 720 01:02:34,380 --> 01:02:36,424 Not at all, Alice. 721 01:02:37,299 --> 01:02:39,719 I expect I'll write a bit... 722 01:02:40,886 --> 01:02:42,263 I'll write... 723 01:02:43,139 --> 01:02:45,308 I'll read, I'll think. 724 01:02:46,933 --> 01:02:48,768 I think I'll learn to fish. 725 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,482 I'll play with my grandchildren when son Roper's done his duty. 726 01:02:56,234 --> 01:02:59,654 - Alice, shall I teach you to read? - No, by God! 727 01:03:03,116 --> 01:03:06,019 Poor, silly man, you think they'll leave you here to think? 728 01:03:06,119 --> 01:03:08,580 If we govern our tongues, they will! 729 01:03:12,250 --> 01:03:16,796 I have a word to say on that. I've made no statement. I've resigned, that's all. 730 01:03:18,131 --> 01:03:22,076 The King is made, by act of parliament, Supreme Head of the Church in England. 731 01:03:22,176 --> 01:03:26,455 This English Church will divorce him from the Queen, then marry him to Lady Anne. 732 01:03:26,555 --> 01:03:30,434 But on any of these matters, have you heard me make a statement? 733 01:03:30,559 --> 01:03:31,602 No. 734 01:03:31,894 --> 01:03:35,673 If I'm to lose my rank and fall to housekeeping, I want to know the reason. 735 01:03:35,773 --> 01:03:37,800 - So make a statement now. - No. 736 01:03:37,900 --> 01:03:40,886 Alice, it's a point of law. Accept it from me... 737 01:03:40,986 --> 01:03:43,889 that in silence is my safety, under the law. 738 01:03:43,989 --> 01:03:47,643 And my silence must be absolute, it must extend to you. 739 01:03:47,743 --> 01:03:49,870 In short, you don't trust me. 740 01:03:53,582 --> 01:03:57,543 I'm the Lord Chief Justice, I'm Cromwell, I'm the keeper of the Tower. 741 01:03:57,877 --> 01:03:59,237 I take your hand... 742 01:03:59,337 --> 01:04:03,199 I clamp it on the Bible, on the blessed Cross and I say: 743 01:04:03,299 --> 01:04:06,678 "Woman, has your husband made a statement on these matters? 744 01:04:07,261 --> 01:04:10,723 "On peril of your soul remember, what is your answer?" 745 01:04:12,809 --> 01:04:13,893 No. 746 01:04:15,144 --> 01:04:17,939 And so it must remain. 747 01:04:26,906 --> 01:04:29,408 Have you opened your mind to Meg? 748 01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:32,661 Would I tell Meg what I won't tell you? 749 01:04:33,370 --> 01:04:36,748 Meg has your heart. I know that well enough. 750 01:04:48,468 --> 01:04:50,637 This is a dangerous matter then... 751 01:04:51,596 --> 01:04:53,390 if you've not told Meg. 752 01:04:54,057 --> 01:04:57,019 I don't think so. No. 753 01:04:58,353 --> 01:05:00,480 When they find I'm silent... 754 01:05:01,231 --> 01:05:04,400 they'll want nothing better than to leave me silent. 755 01:05:05,651 --> 01:05:07,194 You'll see. 756 01:05:29,342 --> 01:05:32,720 But he's silent, Master Secretary, why not leave him silent? 757 01:05:32,887 --> 01:05:35,931 Your Grace, not being a man of letters... 758 01:05:36,557 --> 01:05:39,376 you perhaps don't realize the extent of his reputation. 759 01:05:39,476 --> 01:05:42,420 This silence of his is bellowing up and down Europe! 760 01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,714 In Europe he is claimed as the King's enemy. 761 01:05:44,814 --> 01:05:47,259 Rubbish! Crank he may be, traitor he is not. 762 01:05:47,359 --> 01:05:49,778 Exactly. And with a little pressure... 763 01:05:50,779 --> 01:05:52,973 With a little pressure he can be got to say so. 764 01:05:53,073 --> 01:05:55,809 That's all we need. A brief declaration of his loyalty... 765 01:05:55,909 --> 01:05:59,829 - ... to the present administration. - I still say, let sleeping dogs lie. 766 01:06:00,705 --> 01:06:02,999 The King does not agree with you. 767 01:06:08,046 --> 01:06:12,174 What kind of pressure do you think you can bring to bear? 768 01:06:12,841 --> 01:06:16,787 I have evidence that Sir Thomas, while he was a judge, accepted bribes. 769 01:06:16,887 --> 01:06:18,305 What? 770 01:06:18,597 --> 01:06:22,501 Goddammit! He was the only judge since Cato who didn't accept bribes! 771 01:06:22,601 --> 01:06:25,880 When was there a chancellor whose possessions, after three years... 772 01:06:25,980 --> 01:06:28,816 totaled £100 and a gold chain? 773 01:06:32,820 --> 01:06:35,139 It is, as you imply, common practice... 774 01:06:35,239 --> 01:06:38,267 but a practice may be common and remain an offence. 775 01:06:38,367 --> 01:06:40,953 This offence could send a man to the Tower. 776 01:06:46,125 --> 01:06:47,417 Come here. 777 01:06:48,418 --> 01:06:51,738 This woman's name is Averil Machin. She comes from Leicester. 778 01:06:51,838 --> 01:06:53,948 - She entered a case... - A property case it was. 779 01:06:54,048 --> 01:06:55,508 Shut your mouth. 780 01:06:56,426 --> 01:06:59,120 A property case in the Court of Requests in April, 1528. 781 01:06:59,220 --> 01:07:00,747 And got a wicked false judgment! 782 01:07:00,847 --> 01:07:03,666 And got an impeccably correct judgment from Sir Thomas. 783 01:07:03,766 --> 01:07:05,835 - No, sir, it was not! - Tell the gentleman... 784 01:07:05,935 --> 01:07:08,646 about the gift you gave the judge. 785 01:07:09,772 --> 01:07:11,482 I gave him a cup, sir. 786 01:07:11,607 --> 01:07:15,053 A silver Italian cup I bought in Leicester, for 100 shillings. 787 01:07:15,153 --> 01:07:17,155 Did Sir Thomas accept this cup? 788 01:07:17,405 --> 01:07:18,598 Yes, sir, he did. 789 01:07:18,698 --> 01:07:22,159 He did accept it. We can corroborate that. You can go. 790 01:07:22,492 --> 01:07:24,411 - To my way of thinking... - Go! 791 01:07:33,337 --> 01:07:36,006 - Is that your witness? - No. 792 01:07:36,798 --> 01:07:41,553 By an odd coincidence that cup later came into the hands of Master Rich here. 793 01:07:43,347 --> 01:07:44,473 How? 794 01:07:47,392 --> 01:07:50,479 - He gave it to me, Your Grace. - Gave it to you? Why? 795 01:07:50,896 --> 01:07:52,147 A gift. 796 01:07:53,148 --> 01:07:56,275 Yes, you were a friend, weren't you? 797 01:07:56,901 --> 01:07:59,153 When did Thomas give you this thing? 798 01:07:59,987 --> 01:08:01,864 I can't exactly remember. 799 01:08:04,700 --> 01:08:07,119 Do you "remember" what you did with it? 800 01:08:07,536 --> 01:08:09,330 - I sold it. - Where? 801 01:08:09,997 --> 01:08:12,208 - A shop. - Has the shop still got it? 802 01:08:13,292 --> 01:08:15,461 No. They've lost all track of it. 803 01:08:15,711 --> 01:08:17,171 How convenient. 804 01:08:19,298 --> 01:08:21,409 You doubt Master Rich's word, Your Grace? 805 01:08:21,509 --> 01:08:23,844 It had occurred to me. 806 01:08:26,889 --> 01:08:28,975 This is the bill of sale. 807 01:08:39,776 --> 01:08:44,572 That cow put her case into court in April, you said. This is dated May. 808 01:08:45,699 --> 01:08:48,643 In other words, the moment Thomas knew the cup was a bribe... 809 01:08:48,743 --> 01:08:52,163 he dropped it into the nearest gutter. 810 01:08:55,041 --> 01:08:58,044 The facts will bear that interpretation, I suppose. 811 01:08:59,296 --> 01:09:02,032 This is a horse that won't run, Master Secretary. 812 01:09:02,132 --> 01:09:04,909 Just a trial gallop. We'll find something better. 813 01:09:05,009 --> 01:09:07,594 - I want no part of it. - You have no choice. 814 01:09:09,471 --> 01:09:11,223 What's that you say? 815 01:09:12,683 --> 01:09:17,104 The King particularly wishes you to be active in this matter of Sir Thomas. 816 01:09:17,563 --> 01:09:19,089 He's not told me that. 817 01:09:19,189 --> 01:09:21,108 Indeed? He told me. 818 01:09:25,237 --> 01:09:26,864 Look here, Cromwell... 819 01:09:27,156 --> 01:09:29,325 what's the purpose of all this? 820 01:09:29,450 --> 01:09:30,993 There you have me. 821 01:09:32,369 --> 01:09:34,621 It's a matter of conscience, I think. 822 01:09:34,830 --> 01:09:38,333 The King wants Sir Thomas to bless his marriage. 823 01:09:38,791 --> 01:09:43,296 If Sir Thomas appeared at the wedding now, it might save us all a lot of trouble. 824 01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,259 He won't attend the wedding. 825 01:09:48,384 --> 01:09:50,887 If I were you, I'd try and persuade him. 826 01:09:51,512 --> 01:09:54,682 I really would try, if I were you. 827 01:09:57,185 --> 01:10:00,188 Cromwell, are you threatening me? 828 01:10:00,313 --> 01:10:03,650 My dear Norfolk, this isn't Spain. 829 01:10:04,525 --> 01:10:06,194 This is England! 830 01:12:22,576 --> 01:12:25,079 Thomas? Thomas! 831 01:13:31,018 --> 01:13:32,127 Lady Margaret? 832 01:13:32,227 --> 01:13:33,103 Yes. 833 01:13:35,397 --> 01:13:38,899 We've been cutting greens. We use them for fuel. 834 01:13:41,152 --> 01:13:45,489 I have a letter for your father, Lady Margaret. From Hampton Court. 835 01:13:48,909 --> 01:13:53,039 He's to answer certain charges before Secretary Cromwell. 836 01:13:56,208 --> 01:13:58,085 Good of you to come, Sir Thomas. 837 01:14:04,091 --> 01:14:06,619 Master Rich will make a record of our conversation. 838 01:14:06,719 --> 01:14:08,746 Good of you to tell me, Master Secretary. 839 01:14:08,846 --> 01:14:10,331 I think you know one another. 840 01:14:10,431 --> 01:14:12,766 Indeed yes, we're old friends. 841 01:14:13,725 --> 01:14:16,061 That's a nice gown you have, Richard. 842 01:14:21,232 --> 01:14:23,485 Sir Thomas, believe me. 843 01:14:23,693 --> 01:14:27,781 No, that's asking too much. But let me tell you all the same. 844 01:14:28,073 --> 01:14:31,868 You have no more sincere admirer than myself. 845 01:14:32,994 --> 01:14:35,372 No, not yet, Rich, not yet. 846 01:14:39,376 --> 01:14:41,194 If I might hear the charges. 847 01:14:41,294 --> 01:14:44,239 - The charges? - I understand there are certain charges. 848 01:14:44,339 --> 01:14:47,950 Some ambiguities of behavior I should like to clarify, hardly charges. 849 01:14:48,050 --> 01:14:51,720 Make a note of that, will you, Master Rich? There are no charges. 850 01:14:52,721 --> 01:14:54,974 Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas. 851 01:14:59,979 --> 01:15:03,023 The King is not pleased with you. 852 01:15:03,816 --> 01:15:05,317 I am grieved. 853 01:15:06,110 --> 01:15:09,597 And yet, do you know that even now, if you could bring yourself... 854 01:15:09,697 --> 01:15:13,309 to agree with the Church, universities, the Lords and the Commons... 855 01:15:13,409 --> 01:15:17,204 there is no honor which His Majesty would be likely to deny you? 856 01:15:17,746 --> 01:15:21,041 I am well acquainted with His Grace's generosity. 857 01:15:24,127 --> 01:15:25,253 Very well. 858 01:15:27,714 --> 01:15:31,968 You have heard of the so-called "Holy Maid of Kent"... 859 01:15:32,385 --> 01:15:34,871 who was executed for prophesying against the King? 860 01:15:34,971 --> 01:15:37,140 - Yes, I met her. - Yes, you met her. 861 01:15:37,307 --> 01:15:40,919 Yet you did not warn His Majesty of her treason. How was that? 862 01:15:41,019 --> 01:15:44,397 She spoke no treason. Our talk was not political. 863 01:15:44,772 --> 01:15:47,759 But the woman was notorious. Do you expect me to believe that? 864 01:15:47,859 --> 01:15:51,054 - Happily, there were witnesses. - You wrote a letter to her. 865 01:15:51,154 --> 01:15:56,058 Yes. I wrote, advising her to abstain from meddling in the affairs of state. 866 01:15:56,158 --> 01:16:00,078 I have a copy of the letter. Also witnessed. 867 01:16:02,247 --> 01:16:07,336 - You have been cautious. - I like to keep my affairs regular. 868 01:16:14,426 --> 01:16:18,347 In the June of 1521, the King published a book. 869 01:16:19,348 --> 01:16:20,849 A theological work. 870 01:16:22,351 --> 01:16:25,045 It was called, A Defense of the Seven Sacraments. 871 01:16:25,145 --> 01:16:30,091 For which he was named "Defender of the Faith" by His Holiness, the Pope. 872 01:16:30,191 --> 01:16:33,553 By the Bishop of Rome, or do you insist on "pope"? 873 01:16:33,653 --> 01:16:37,823 No. "Bishop of Rome" if you like. It doesn't alter his authority. 874 01:16:38,950 --> 01:16:44,272 Thank you. You come to the point very readily. What is that authority? 875 01:16:44,372 --> 01:16:46,440 For example, in the Church of England... 876 01:16:46,540 --> 01:16:49,377 what exactly is the Bishop of Rome's authority? 877 01:16:50,294 --> 01:16:54,632 You will find it very ably set out and defended, Master Secretary... 878 01:16:54,882 --> 01:16:56,676 in the King's book. 879 01:16:57,259 --> 01:17:00,580 In the book published under the King's name, would be more accurate. 880 01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:03,165 - You wrote this book. - I wrote no part of it. 881 01:17:03,265 --> 01:17:05,125 I don't mean you actually held the pen. 882 01:17:05,225 --> 01:17:08,044 I answered to my best ability, some points of common law... 883 01:17:08,144 --> 01:17:10,463 which the King put to me, as I was bound to do. 884 01:17:10,563 --> 01:17:12,132 Do you deny you instigated it? 885 01:17:12,232 --> 01:17:15,802 It was from first to last the King's own project. 886 01:17:15,902 --> 01:17:17,028 The King says not. 887 01:17:20,490 --> 01:17:22,826 The King knows the truth of it. 888 01:17:23,702 --> 01:17:25,979 And whatever he may have said to you... 889 01:17:26,079 --> 01:17:29,291 he will not give evidence to support this accusation. 890 01:17:30,709 --> 01:17:31,985 Why not? 891 01:17:32,085 --> 01:17:36,381 Because evidence is given on oath, and he will not perjure himself. 892 01:17:36,965 --> 01:17:40,718 If you don't know that, then you don't yet know him. 893 01:17:46,390 --> 01:17:47,766 Sir Thomas More. 894 01:17:47,933 --> 01:17:49,126 Have you anything to say... 895 01:17:49,226 --> 01:17:51,603 regarding the King's marriage with Queen Anne? 896 01:17:52,521 --> 01:17:54,840 I understood I was not to be asked that again. 897 01:17:54,940 --> 01:17:57,051 Then you understood wrongly. These charges... 898 01:17:57,151 --> 01:18:01,614 They are terrors for children, Master Secretary, not for me! 899 01:18:07,328 --> 01:18:10,064 Then know that the King commands me to charge you... 900 01:18:10,164 --> 01:18:12,750 in his name, with great ingratitude! 901 01:18:13,541 --> 01:18:17,612 And to tell you that there never was, nor could be, so villainous a servant... 902 01:18:17,712 --> 01:18:20,590 nor so traitorous a subject, as yourself! 903 01:18:22,425 --> 01:18:23,468 So... 904 01:18:26,179 --> 01:18:28,473 I am brought here at last. 905 01:18:29,432 --> 01:18:30,475 Brought? 906 01:18:31,768 --> 01:18:34,437 You've brought yourself to where you stand now. 907 01:18:36,689 --> 01:18:37,857 You may go. 908 01:18:43,404 --> 01:18:44,781 For the present. 909 01:18:51,203 --> 01:18:52,829 What will you do now? 910 01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:56,917 Whatever's necessary. 911 01:19:05,884 --> 01:19:06,927 Boat! 912 01:19:23,818 --> 01:19:26,821 Oh, come, come, it's not as bad as all that! 913 01:19:32,285 --> 01:19:33,536 Howard! 914 01:19:39,583 --> 01:19:41,168 I can't get home. 915 01:19:41,919 --> 01:19:43,754 They won't bring me a boat. 916 01:19:44,046 --> 01:19:45,798 Do you blame them? 917 01:19:45,965 --> 01:19:47,591 Is it as bad as that? 918 01:19:48,050 --> 01:19:50,386 It's every bit as bad as that! 919 01:19:51,470 --> 01:19:53,998 Then it's good of you to be seen with me. 920 01:19:54,098 --> 01:19:55,683 I followed you. 921 01:19:56,808 --> 01:19:58,560 Were you followed? 922 01:20:09,112 --> 01:20:11,306 - You're dangerous to know! - Then don't know me. 923 01:20:11,406 --> 01:20:13,350 - I do know you. - I mean as a friend. 924 01:20:13,450 --> 01:20:17,495 - I am your friend. I wish I wasn't, but I am. - What's to be done then? 925 01:20:17,621 --> 01:20:19,689 - Give in. - I can't give in, Howard. 926 01:20:19,789 --> 01:20:22,067 Our friendship's more mutable than that. 927 01:20:22,167 --> 01:20:24,903 The one fixed point in the world of turning friendship... 928 01:20:25,003 --> 01:20:28,740 - ... is that Sir More won't give in. - To me it has to be, for that's myself. 929 01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:31,467 Affection goes as deep in me as you, I think. 930 01:20:31,925 --> 01:20:36,388 But only God is love right through, Howard, and that's my self. 931 01:20:37,973 --> 01:20:39,350 And who are you? 932 01:20:41,101 --> 01:20:43,170 A lawyer! And a lawyer's son! 933 01:20:43,270 --> 01:20:47,299 We're supposed to be the proud ones, the arrogant ones, we've all given in. 934 01:20:47,399 --> 01:20:49,051 Why must you stand out? 935 01:20:49,151 --> 01:20:52,529 Goddammit man! It's disproportionate! 936 01:20:55,741 --> 01:20:57,326 You'll break my heart. 937 01:20:58,535 --> 01:21:02,414 No one is safe, Howard, and you have a son. 938 01:21:05,750 --> 01:21:08,044 We'll end our friendship now. 939 01:21:08,461 --> 01:21:10,588 - For friendship's sake? - Yes. 940 01:21:11,381 --> 01:21:12,298 Daft! 941 01:21:20,056 --> 01:21:21,975 Norfolk, you're a fool! 942 01:21:23,393 --> 01:21:25,837 You can't place a quarrel, you haven't the style. 943 01:21:25,937 --> 01:21:29,549 Hear me out. You and your class have given in, as you rightly call it... 944 01:21:29,649 --> 01:21:32,635 'cause this country's religion means nothing to you at all. 945 01:21:32,735 --> 01:21:34,988 Well, that's a foolish saying for a start! 946 01:21:35,947 --> 01:21:37,473 The nobility of England... 947 01:21:37,573 --> 01:21:41,685 The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount! 948 01:21:41,785 --> 01:21:45,580 But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree. 949 01:21:46,081 --> 01:21:47,941 An artificial quarrel is not a quarrel. 950 01:21:48,041 --> 01:21:51,753 We've had a quarrel since the day we met. Our friendship was mere sloth. 951 01:21:52,045 --> 01:21:54,865 You can be cruel when you want, but I've always known that. 952 01:21:54,965 --> 01:21:58,176 What do you value in your bulldogs? Gripping, is it not? 953 01:22:00,178 --> 01:22:01,413 - Yes. - It's their nature? 954 01:22:01,513 --> 01:22:03,290 - Yes. - It's why you breed them? 955 01:22:03,390 --> 01:22:04,600 It's so with men. 956 01:22:05,017 --> 01:22:07,002 I will not give in, because I oppose it. 957 01:22:07,102 --> 01:22:12,691 Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any other of my appetites, but I do, I. 958 01:22:13,566 --> 01:22:17,637 Is there, in the midst of all this muscle, no sinew that serves no appetite... 959 01:22:17,737 --> 01:22:20,056 of Norfolk's, but is just Norfolk? There is! 960 01:22:20,156 --> 01:22:22,099 - Give that some exercise, my lord! - Thomas! 961 01:22:22,199 --> 01:22:25,228 As you stand you'll go before your Maker ill conditioned! 962 01:22:25,328 --> 01:22:26,020 Now steady. 963 01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:31,042 And he'll think that, somewhere back along your pedigree, a bitch got over the wall! 964 01:22:45,431 --> 01:22:49,476 Cast in this very house on April 3, last year... 965 01:22:49,851 --> 01:22:54,214 it is a matter very fit for the Commons, gathered here... 966 01:22:54,314 --> 01:22:56,900 in parliament, to take in hand. 967 01:22:57,150 --> 01:23:01,321 Or, in consequence of the decay of guilds... 968 01:23:01,613 --> 01:23:05,725 the woolen cloth, now coming out of Yorkshire, Lincoln... 969 01:23:05,825 --> 01:23:09,329 and the like, is not to blame and this... 970 01:23:11,456 --> 01:23:14,626 I will defer the rest of my matter to later. 971 01:23:22,132 --> 01:23:26,553 That the loyal Commons, here assembled, will speedily enact this bill, I doubt not. 972 01:23:26,804 --> 01:23:31,225 For as much as it concerns the King's new title and his marriage to Queen Anne. 973 01:23:31,517 --> 01:23:35,271 Both matters pleasing to a loyal subject. 974 01:23:36,897 --> 01:23:38,649 Mark, my Masters... 975 01:23:38,983 --> 01:23:43,487 there is among us a brood of discreet traitors... 976 01:23:43,862 --> 01:23:46,182 to which deceit the King can brook no longer. 977 01:23:46,282 --> 01:23:52,329 And we, his loyal huntsmen, must now drive these subtle foxes from their covert. 978 01:24:21,190 --> 01:24:21,966 Father? 979 01:24:22,066 --> 01:24:23,151 Margaret! 980 01:24:24,736 --> 01:24:26,446 I couldn't get a boat. 981 01:24:26,988 --> 01:24:28,598 What is it, Meg? 982 01:24:28,698 --> 01:24:31,366 Father, there's a new act going through parliament. 983 01:24:33,577 --> 01:24:36,063 And by this act, they're going to administer an oath... 984 01:24:36,163 --> 01:24:37,956 about the marriage. 985 01:24:38,624 --> 01:24:40,375 On what compulsion is the oath? 986 01:24:41,627 --> 01:24:43,946 - High treason. - But what is the wording? 987 01:24:44,046 --> 01:24:46,406 Do the words matter? We know what it means. 988 01:24:46,506 --> 01:24:47,616 Tell me the words. 989 01:24:47,716 --> 01:24:50,410 An oath is made of words. It may be possible to take it. 990 01:24:50,510 --> 01:24:51,136 Take it? 991 01:24:51,428 --> 01:24:53,639 And if it can be taken, you must take it, too. 992 01:24:54,723 --> 01:24:55,374 No! 993 01:24:55,474 --> 01:24:59,895 Listen, Meg. God made the angels to show him splendor. 994 01:25:00,395 --> 01:25:05,107 As he made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. 995 01:25:05,232 --> 01:25:10,071 But Man he made to serve him wittily, in the tangle of his mind. 996 01:25:10,529 --> 01:25:13,850 If he suffers us to come to such a case that there is no escaping... 997 01:25:13,950 --> 01:25:16,769 then we may stand to our tackle as best we can. 998 01:25:16,869 --> 01:25:21,916 And yes, Meg, then we can clamor like champions, if we have the spittle for it. 999 01:25:22,249 --> 01:25:26,195 But it's God's part, not our own, to bring ourselves to such a pass. 1000 01:25:26,295 --> 01:25:29,674 Our natural business lies in escaping. 1001 01:25:31,884 --> 01:25:33,886 If I can take this oath, I will. 1002 01:25:38,975 --> 01:25:40,792 I would, for my sake, you could take the oath. 1003 01:25:40,892 --> 01:25:43,478 I never took a man into the Tower less willingly. 1004 01:25:43,895 --> 01:25:45,730 Thank you, Master Governor. 1005 01:25:48,733 --> 01:25:50,110 Thank you. 1006 01:25:52,404 --> 01:25:53,571 Sir Thomas. 1007 01:27:27,204 --> 01:27:28,413 Sir Thomas. 1008 01:27:31,583 --> 01:27:32,834 Sir Thomas! 1009 01:27:53,522 --> 01:27:55,524 This is iniquitous. 1010 01:27:59,277 --> 01:28:01,654 - Where to this time? - Richmond Palace. 1011 01:28:58,793 --> 01:29:00,128 Sit down. 1012 01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:10,955 This is the Seventh Commission to inquire into the case... 1013 01:29:11,055 --> 01:29:14,041 of Sir Thomas More, appointed by His Majesty's Council. 1014 01:29:14,141 --> 01:29:16,085 Have you anything to say? 1015 01:29:16,185 --> 01:29:17,269 No. 1016 01:29:20,105 --> 01:29:22,049 - Seen this document before? - Many times. 1017 01:29:22,149 --> 01:29:23,759 It is the Act of Succession. 1018 01:29:23,859 --> 01:29:26,345 These are the names of those who have sworn to it. 1019 01:29:26,445 --> 01:29:29,431 - I have, as you say, seen it before. - Will you swear to it? 1020 01:29:29,531 --> 01:29:30,616 No. 1021 01:29:31,450 --> 01:29:33,410 Thomas, we must know... 1022 01:29:37,456 --> 01:29:41,609 We must know plainly whether you recognize the offspring of Queen Anne... 1023 01:29:41,709 --> 01:29:43,695 as heirs to the throne. 1024 01:29:43,795 --> 01:29:46,406 The King in parliament tells me that they are. 1025 01:29:46,506 --> 01:29:49,033 - Of course I recognize them. - Will you swear to it? 1026 01:29:49,133 --> 01:29:52,120 - Yes. - Then why won't he swear to the act? 1027 01:29:52,220 --> 01:29:55,039 Because there is more than that in the act. 1028 01:29:55,139 --> 01:29:59,669 Just so. Sir Thomas, it states in the preamble that the King's former marriage... 1029 01:29:59,769 --> 01:30:01,754 to the Lady Catherine was unlawful... 1030 01:30:01,854 --> 01:30:06,567 she being his brother's widow and the Pope having no authority to sanction it. 1031 01:30:07,819 --> 01:30:09,737 Is that what you deny? 1032 01:30:15,701 --> 01:30:17,786 Is that what you dispute? 1033 01:30:24,293 --> 01:30:27,212 Is that what you are not sure of? 1034 01:30:33,427 --> 01:30:37,873 You insult His Majesty and Council in the person of the Lord Archbishop! 1035 01:30:37,973 --> 01:30:39,208 I insult no one. 1036 01:30:39,308 --> 01:30:43,186 I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why I will not. 1037 01:30:43,312 --> 01:30:46,840 - Then your reasons must be treasonable! - Not "must be," may be. 1038 01:30:46,940 --> 01:30:48,633 It's a fair assumption! 1039 01:30:48,733 --> 01:30:52,595 The law requires more than an assumption, the law requires a fact. 1040 01:30:52,695 --> 01:30:55,890 Of course, I cannot judge your legal standing in the case... 1041 01:30:55,990 --> 01:30:58,809 but until I know the ground of your objections... 1042 01:30:58,909 --> 01:31:02,914 I can only guess your spiritual standing, too. 1043 01:31:03,289 --> 01:31:07,235 If you're willing to guess that, it should be small matter to guess my objections. 1044 01:31:07,335 --> 01:31:09,320 Then you do have objections to the act? 1045 01:31:09,420 --> 01:31:11,255 Well, we know that, Cromwell! 1046 01:31:11,464 --> 01:31:12,824 No, my lord, you don't. 1047 01:31:12,924 --> 01:31:16,869 You may suppose I have objections, all you know is that I will not swear to it... 1048 01:31:16,969 --> 01:31:20,014 for which you cannot lawfully harm me further. 1049 01:31:20,264 --> 01:31:24,793 But if you were right in supposing me to have objections, and right again... 1050 01:31:24,893 --> 01:31:27,420 in supposing my objections to be treasonable... 1051 01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,857 the law would let you cut my head off. 1052 01:31:32,359 --> 01:31:33,985 Oh, yes. 1053 01:31:35,153 --> 01:31:36,763 Well done, Sir Thomas. 1054 01:31:36,863 --> 01:31:40,851 I've been trying to make that clear to His Grace for some time. 1055 01:31:40,951 --> 01:31:43,228 Oh, confound all this! I'm not a scholar. 1056 01:31:43,328 --> 01:31:45,480 I don't know if the marriage was lawful or not... 1057 01:31:45,580 --> 01:31:47,666 but damn it, Thomas, look at these names. 1058 01:31:48,166 --> 01:31:51,628 Why can't you do as I did, and come with us, for fellowship? 1059 01:31:53,088 --> 01:31:56,824 And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience... 1060 01:31:56,924 --> 01:32:01,971 and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship? 1061 01:32:03,264 --> 01:32:06,542 So, those of us whose names are there, are damned, Sir Thomas? 1062 01:32:06,642 --> 01:32:09,628 I have no window to look into another man's conscience. 1063 01:32:09,728 --> 01:32:11,005 I condemn no one. 1064 01:32:11,105 --> 01:32:13,674 - Then the matter is capable of question? - Certainly. 1065 01:32:13,774 --> 01:32:17,011 But that you owe obedience to the King is not capable of question. 1066 01:32:17,111 --> 01:32:20,322 So weigh a doubt against a certainty and sign. 1067 01:32:23,284 --> 01:32:28,330 Some men think the earth is round, others think it flat. 1068 01:32:28,539 --> 01:32:31,082 It is a matter capable of question. 1069 01:32:31,874 --> 01:32:36,154 But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? 1070 01:32:36,254 --> 01:32:39,591 And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? 1071 01:32:40,425 --> 01:32:43,303 No, I will not sign. 1072 01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:47,123 Then you have more regard for your own doubt than the King's command? 1073 01:32:47,223 --> 01:32:49,501 - For myself I have no doubt. - No doubt of what? 1074 01:32:49,601 --> 01:32:51,878 No doubt that I will not take this oath. 1075 01:32:51,978 --> 01:32:56,274 But why I will not, you, Master Secretary, will not trick out of me. 1076 01:32:56,691 --> 01:32:59,569 I might get it out of you in other ways. 1077 01:33:00,820 --> 01:33:03,406 You threaten like a dockside bully. 1078 01:33:03,573 --> 01:33:04,807 How should I threaten? 1079 01:33:04,907 --> 01:33:08,744 Like a minister of state, with justice! 1080 01:33:09,453 --> 01:33:12,080 Justice is what you're threatened with. 1081 01:33:12,205 --> 01:33:14,082 Then I am not threatened. 1082 01:33:20,464 --> 01:33:22,758 Gentlemen, can't I go to bed? 1083 01:33:22,966 --> 01:33:25,410 Aye. The prisoner may retire as he requests. 1084 01:33:25,510 --> 01:33:28,680 - Unless you... - I see no purpose in prolonging this. 1085 01:33:32,684 --> 01:33:35,812 Then, goodnight, Thomas. 1086 01:33:40,983 --> 01:33:43,486 May I have one or two more books? 1087 01:33:44,362 --> 01:33:45,863 Why, you have books? 1088 01:33:46,322 --> 01:33:47,181 Yes. 1089 01:33:47,281 --> 01:33:49,825 I didn't know, you shouldn't have. 1090 01:33:58,084 --> 01:33:59,902 May I see my family? 1091 01:34:00,002 --> 01:34:01,087 No. 1092 01:34:07,551 --> 01:34:08,594 Captain! 1093 01:34:08,886 --> 01:34:10,596 Master Secretary? 1094 01:34:11,430 --> 01:34:15,041 Have you ever heard the prisoner speak of the King's divorce, supremacy... 1095 01:34:15,141 --> 01:34:17,419 - ... or the King's marriage? - No, not a word. 1096 01:34:17,519 --> 01:34:20,230 If he does, you will repeat it to me. 1097 01:34:21,231 --> 01:34:22,607 Of course. 1098 01:34:27,737 --> 01:34:28,613 Rich. 1099 01:34:28,738 --> 01:34:29,598 Secretary? 1100 01:34:29,698 --> 01:34:32,409 Tomorrow morning, remove the prisoner's books. 1101 01:34:32,576 --> 01:34:34,269 Is that necessary? 1102 01:34:34,369 --> 01:34:37,397 With regards to this case, the King is becoming impatient. 1103 01:34:37,497 --> 01:34:39,357 - Aye, with you. - With all of us. 1104 01:34:39,457 --> 01:34:42,752 The King's impatience will embrace a duke or two. 1105 01:34:52,553 --> 01:34:54,013 Master Secretary. 1106 01:34:55,973 --> 01:34:58,142 Sir Redvers Llewellyn has retired. 1107 01:34:59,143 --> 01:35:01,186 The Attorney General for Wales. 1108 01:35:01,437 --> 01:35:03,230 His post is vacant. 1109 01:35:04,356 --> 01:35:06,567 You said that I might approach you. 1110 01:35:07,735 --> 01:35:09,695 Not now, Rich. 1111 01:35:12,781 --> 01:35:14,992 He must submit. He must! 1112 01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:17,202 Rack him. 1113 01:35:21,206 --> 01:35:24,918 No. The King's conscience will not permit it. 1114 01:35:25,293 --> 01:35:27,670 We have to find some other way. 1115 01:35:36,971 --> 01:35:38,389 Sir Thomas! 1116 01:35:40,808 --> 01:35:41,626 Father! 1117 01:35:41,726 --> 01:35:43,102 What? Margaret? 1118 01:35:43,978 --> 01:35:45,480 Father! 1119 01:35:46,189 --> 01:35:49,342 Meg. For God's sake, they haven't put you in here? 1120 01:35:49,442 --> 01:35:51,845 - No, sir, a visit. - A brief one, Sir Thomas. 1121 01:35:51,945 --> 01:35:53,363 Father. 1122 01:35:54,405 --> 01:35:56,741 - Good morning, husband. - Good morning. 1123 01:36:00,327 --> 01:36:02,120 Good morning, Will. 1124 01:36:07,501 --> 01:36:09,836 Well, this is a hellish place! 1125 01:36:10,087 --> 01:36:13,115 Except it's keeping me from you, my dears, it isn't so bad. 1126 01:36:13,215 --> 01:36:14,950 It's remarkably like any other place. 1127 01:36:15,050 --> 01:36:17,970 - It drips! - Yes. It's too near the river. 1128 01:36:29,856 --> 01:36:30,983 Well, what is it? 1129 01:36:33,442 --> 01:36:36,988 Father, come out! Swear to the act and come out! 1130 01:36:39,198 --> 01:36:41,367 Is this why they've let you come? 1131 01:36:41,492 --> 01:36:42,535 Yes. 1132 01:36:45,246 --> 01:36:47,498 Meg's under oath to persuade you. 1133 01:36:49,166 --> 01:36:51,002 That was silly, Meg. 1134 01:36:59,343 --> 01:37:01,512 How do you plan to do that? 1135 01:37:03,556 --> 01:37:04,765 Father. 1136 01:37:05,391 --> 01:37:08,919 "God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth." 1137 01:37:09,019 --> 01:37:11,379 - Well, so you've always told me. - Yes. 1138 01:37:11,479 --> 01:37:14,633 Then say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise. 1139 01:37:14,733 --> 01:37:17,986 What is an oath then, but words we say to God? 1140 01:37:24,659 --> 01:37:25,952 Listen, Meg. 1141 01:37:26,745 --> 01:37:30,832 When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands... 1142 01:37:31,124 --> 01:37:32,417 like water. 1143 01:37:32,626 --> 01:37:37,672 And if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. 1144 01:37:38,882 --> 01:37:43,802 Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be loathed to think your father one of them. 1145 01:37:46,931 --> 01:37:49,308 - I have another argument. - Oh, Meg. 1146 01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:54,772 In any state that was half good, you would be raised up high, not here... 1147 01:37:54,939 --> 01:37:57,942 - ... for what you've done already. - All right. 1148 01:37:58,275 --> 01:38:00,886 It's not your fault the state's three-quarters bad. 1149 01:38:00,986 --> 01:38:01,720 No. 1150 01:38:01,820 --> 01:38:04,431 If you elect to suffer for it, you elect to be a hero. 1151 01:38:04,531 --> 01:38:06,075 That's very neat. 1152 01:38:06,575 --> 01:38:10,913 But look now. If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable... 1153 01:38:11,247 --> 01:38:13,524 common sense would make us saintly. 1154 01:38:13,624 --> 01:38:18,044 But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity... 1155 01:38:18,294 --> 01:38:23,299 commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought... 1156 01:38:23,466 --> 01:38:26,052 perhaps we must stand fast a little... 1157 01:38:26,219 --> 01:38:28,721 even at the risk of being heroes. 1158 01:38:33,393 --> 01:38:34,794 But in reason! 1159 01:38:34,894 --> 01:38:38,356 Haven't you done as much as God can reasonably want? 1160 01:38:43,111 --> 01:38:47,031 Well, finally it isn't a matter of reason. 1161 01:38:47,156 --> 01:38:49,533 Finally, it's a matter of love. 1162 01:38:52,786 --> 01:38:55,898 You're content then to be shut up here with mice and rats... 1163 01:38:55,998 --> 01:38:58,275 - ... when you might be home with us? - Content? 1164 01:38:58,375 --> 01:39:03,589 If they'd open a crack that wide, I'd be through it like a bird and back to Chelsea. 1165 01:39:08,218 --> 01:39:10,913 I haven't told you what the house is like without you. 1166 01:39:11,013 --> 01:39:12,164 Don't, Meg. 1167 01:39:12,264 --> 01:39:15,501 - What we do in the evening without you. - Meg, have done. 1168 01:39:15,601 --> 01:39:17,853 We don't read because we've no candles. 1169 01:39:18,061 --> 01:39:20,923 We don't talk because we wonder what they're doing to you. 1170 01:39:21,023 --> 01:39:23,716 The King is more merciful. He doesn't use the rack. 1171 01:39:23,816 --> 01:39:25,551 Two minutes to go, sir. 1172 01:39:25,651 --> 01:39:28,321 - I thought you'd like to know. - Two minutes! 1173 01:39:28,946 --> 01:39:31,490 - Jailer! - Sorry, sir. Two minutes. 1174 01:39:33,284 --> 01:39:37,188 Listen, you must leave the country. All of you must leave the country. 1175 01:39:37,288 --> 01:39:39,273 - And leave you? - It makes no difference. 1176 01:39:39,373 --> 01:39:41,150 They won't let me see you again. 1177 01:39:41,250 --> 01:39:44,153 You must all go on the same day, but not on the same boat. 1178 01:39:44,253 --> 01:39:47,573 - Different boats from different ports. - After the trial, then. 1179 01:39:47,673 --> 01:39:50,259 There'll be no trial, they have no case. 1180 01:39:51,844 --> 01:39:53,846 Do this for me, I beseech you. 1181 01:39:53,971 --> 01:39:55,790 - Will? - Yes, sir. 1182 01:39:55,890 --> 01:39:57,724 - Margaret? - Yes. 1183 01:39:58,391 --> 01:39:59,434 Alice? 1184 01:40:05,398 --> 01:40:08,151 - Alice, I command you! - Right. 1185 01:40:15,533 --> 01:40:17,535 This is splendid. 1186 01:40:18,245 --> 01:40:21,106 - I know who packed this. - I packed it. 1187 01:40:21,206 --> 01:40:22,249 Yes. 1188 01:40:25,001 --> 01:40:27,571 You still make a superlative custard, Alice. 1189 01:40:27,671 --> 01:40:28,755 Do I? 1190 01:40:31,299 --> 01:40:33,634 That's a nice dress you have on. 1191 01:40:34,969 --> 01:40:36,720 Nice color anyway. 1192 01:40:37,012 --> 01:40:39,139 My God, you think little of me! 1193 01:40:39,723 --> 01:40:40,666 I know I'm a fool... 1194 01:40:40,766 --> 01:40:44,003 but I'm not such a fool as to be lamenting for my dresses... 1195 01:40:44,103 --> 01:40:46,564 or to relish complimenting on my custards. 1196 01:40:46,730 --> 01:40:48,440 I'm well rebuked. 1197 01:40:49,817 --> 01:40:51,443 - Alice... - No! 1198 01:40:54,613 --> 01:40:59,410 I'm sick with fear when I think of the worst they may do to me. 1199 01:40:59,577 --> 01:41:04,690 But worse than that will be to go with you not understanding why I go. 1200 01:41:04,790 --> 01:41:05,815 I don't. 1201 01:41:05,915 --> 01:41:11,070 If you can tell me that you understand, I might make a good death, if I have to. 1202 01:41:11,170 --> 01:41:15,366 - Your death's no good to me. - You must tell me that you understand. 1203 01:41:15,466 --> 01:41:16,634 I don't! 1204 01:41:17,010 --> 01:41:18,786 I don't believe this had to happen! 1205 01:41:18,886 --> 01:41:21,122 If you say that I don't see how I'm to face it. 1206 01:41:21,222 --> 01:41:22,557 It's the truth! 1207 01:41:22,974 --> 01:41:26,144 - You're an honest woman. - Much good may it do me. 1208 01:41:26,936 --> 01:41:29,130 I'll tell you what I'm afraid of... 1209 01:41:29,230 --> 01:41:32,150 that when you've gone, I shall hate you for it. 1210 01:41:36,571 --> 01:41:38,281 You mustn't, Alice. 1211 01:41:41,783 --> 01:41:43,076 You mustn't. 1212 01:41:47,789 --> 01:41:52,127 As for understanding, I understand you're the best man I ever met or ever likely to. 1213 01:41:52,586 --> 01:41:57,533 And if you go, God knows why I suppose, though as God's my witness... 1214 01:41:57,633 --> 01:41:59,885 God's kept deadly quiet about it. 1215 01:42:00,594 --> 01:42:04,640 And if any one wants to know my opinion of the King and his Council... 1216 01:42:04,765 --> 01:42:07,434 he only has to ask for it! 1217 01:42:11,021 --> 01:42:14,358 Why, it's a lion I married. 1218 01:42:14,607 --> 01:42:16,400 A lion. A lion. 1219 01:42:22,323 --> 01:42:24,575 This is good. 1220 01:42:27,286 --> 01:42:28,663 It's very good. 1221 01:42:29,455 --> 01:42:31,165 Sorry, Sir Thomas! 1222 01:42:31,624 --> 01:42:33,776 - Oh, for pity's sake! - Time's up, sir. 1223 01:42:33,876 --> 01:42:36,696 - But one more minute! - You don't know what you're asking. 1224 01:42:36,796 --> 01:42:38,656 - Come along, Miss. - For heaven's sake. 1225 01:42:38,756 --> 01:42:40,508 Now, don't do that, sir. 1226 01:42:43,427 --> 01:42:45,763 Now, madam, don't make trouble. 1227 01:42:48,683 --> 01:42:51,017 Come along, please, Lady Alice. 1228 01:42:54,896 --> 01:42:57,232 Take your muddy paws off me! 1229 01:42:57,774 --> 01:43:00,860 Filthy, stinking, gutter-fed, turnkey! 1230 01:43:01,611 --> 01:43:03,905 I'll see you suffer for this! 1231 01:43:05,156 --> 01:43:06,408 Goodbye. 1232 01:43:21,548 --> 01:43:23,924 You must understand my position, sir. 1233 01:43:24,258 --> 01:43:27,887 I'm a plain, simple man and I just want to keep out of trouble. 1234 01:43:37,771 --> 01:43:42,401 Dear Lord Jesus, my soul Savior, clear my wits. 1235 01:43:43,736 --> 01:43:48,032 Dear Lady, Blessed Mother of God, comfort my wife and daughter... 1236 01:43:48,991 --> 01:43:51,035 and forgive me for them. 1237 01:44:55,514 --> 01:44:59,960 Sir Thomas More, though you have heinously offended the King's majesty... 1238 01:45:00,060 --> 01:45:05,232 we hope that if you'll even now fore think and repent of obstinate opinion... 1239 01:45:05,649 --> 01:45:08,442 you may still taste his gracious pardon. 1240 01:45:09,819 --> 01:45:11,696 My lords, I thank you. 1241 01:45:12,446 --> 01:45:14,932 As for the matters you may charge me with... 1242 01:45:15,032 --> 01:45:18,811 I fear from my present weakness, that neither my wit... 1243 01:45:18,911 --> 01:45:21,163 nor my memory will serve... 1244 01:45:21,789 --> 01:45:23,791 to make sufficient answer. 1245 01:45:25,084 --> 01:45:27,378 I should be glad to sit down. 1246 01:45:27,545 --> 01:45:29,297 A chair for the prisoner. 1247 01:45:43,768 --> 01:45:46,004 Master Secretary Cromwell, have you the charge? 1248 01:45:46,104 --> 01:45:48,523 - I have, my lord. - Then read the charge. 1249 01:45:52,235 --> 01:45:55,514 "That you did willfully and maliciously deny and deprive... 1250 01:45:55,614 --> 01:45:59,451 "our liege, Lord Henry, of his undoubted certain title... 1251 01:45:59,701 --> 01:46:02,621 "Supreme Head of the Church in England." 1252 01:46:04,122 --> 01:46:07,417 But, I have never denied this title. 1253 01:46:09,794 --> 01:46:13,632 At Westminster Hall, at Lambeth, and again at Richmond... 1254 01:46:13,757 --> 01:46:16,258 you stubbornly refused the oath. 1255 01:46:16,425 --> 01:46:17,743 Was this no denial? 1256 01:46:17,843 --> 01:46:19,929 No, this was silence. 1257 01:46:20,262 --> 01:46:23,599 And for my silence, I am punished with imprisonment. 1258 01:46:24,892 --> 01:46:29,104 - Why have I been called again? - On a charge of high treason, Sir Thomas. 1259 01:46:29,897 --> 01:46:32,942 For which the punishment is not imprisonment. 1260 01:46:33,359 --> 01:46:34,443 Death... 1261 01:46:34,985 --> 01:46:37,363 comes for us all, my lords. 1262 01:46:37,655 --> 01:46:39,849 Yes, even for kings he comes. 1263 01:46:39,949 --> 01:46:43,035 The death of kings is not in question, Sir Thomas. 1264 01:46:43,285 --> 01:46:46,330 Nor mine, I trust, until I'm proven guilty. 1265 01:46:46,455 --> 01:46:49,858 Your life lies in your own hands, Thomas, as it always has! 1266 01:46:49,958 --> 01:46:51,793 Is that so, my lord? 1267 01:46:52,418 --> 01:46:54,170 Then I'll keep a good grip on it. 1268 01:47:01,135 --> 01:47:02,720 So, Sir Thomas... 1269 01:47:03,304 --> 01:47:05,348 you stand on your silence? 1270 01:47:06,015 --> 01:47:07,183 I do. 1271 01:47:07,934 --> 01:47:10,019 But, gentlemen of the jury... 1272 01:47:10,812 --> 01:47:13,606 there are many kinds of silence. 1273 01:47:14,065 --> 01:47:17,193 Consider first the silence of a man when he is dead. 1274 01:47:17,527 --> 01:47:20,680 Suppose we go into the room where he is laid out and we listen. 1275 01:47:20,780 --> 01:47:21,948 What do we hear? 1276 01:47:23,449 --> 01:47:24,741 Silence. 1277 01:47:25,200 --> 01:47:28,328 What does it betoken, this silence? 1278 01:47:28,912 --> 01:47:31,582 Nothing. This is silence pure and simple. 1279 01:47:31,915 --> 01:47:33,692 But let us take another case. 1280 01:47:33,792 --> 01:47:36,653 Suppose I were to take a dagger from my sleeve... 1281 01:47:36,753 --> 01:47:38,739 and make to kill the prisoner with it. 1282 01:47:38,839 --> 01:47:43,160 And my lordships there, instead of crying out for me to stop, maintain their silence. 1283 01:47:43,260 --> 01:47:45,178 That would betoken! 1284 01:47:45,470 --> 01:47:48,807 It would betoken a willingness that I should do it. 1285 01:47:49,016 --> 01:47:51,935 And under the law, they would be guilty with me. 1286 01:47:52,895 --> 01:47:56,607 So silence can, according to the circumstances... 1287 01:47:57,524 --> 01:47:58,649 speak. 1288 01:47:59,317 --> 01:48:03,696 Let us consider now the circumstances of the prisoner's silence. 1289 01:48:04,322 --> 01:48:08,100 The oath was put to loyal subjects all over the country who all declared... 1290 01:48:08,200 --> 01:48:10,353 His Grace's title to be just and good! 1291 01:48:10,453 --> 01:48:13,539 But when it came to the prisoner, he refused! 1292 01:48:15,458 --> 01:48:17,793 He calls this "silence." 1293 01:48:18,961 --> 01:48:21,714 Yet, is there a man in this court... 1294 01:48:22,506 --> 01:48:25,468 Is there a man in this country... 1295 01:48:25,760 --> 01:48:30,014 who does not know Sir Thomas More's opinion of this title? 1296 01:48:32,682 --> 01:48:34,517 Yet, how can this be? 1297 01:48:34,893 --> 01:48:37,854 Because this silence betokened... 1298 01:48:38,355 --> 01:48:43,276 nay, this silence was not silence at all, but most eloquent denial! 1299 01:48:45,820 --> 01:48:47,072 Not so. 1300 01:48:48,990 --> 01:48:50,742 Not so, Master Secretary. 1301 01:48:53,536 --> 01:48:56,857 The maxim of the law is, "Silence gives consent." 1302 01:48:56,957 --> 01:49:00,068 If, therefore, you wish to construe what my silence betokened... 1303 01:49:00,168 --> 01:49:04,381 you must construe that I consented, not that I denied. 1304 01:49:05,674 --> 01:49:08,492 Is that in fact what the world construes from it? 1305 01:49:08,592 --> 01:49:11,871 Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it? 1306 01:49:11,971 --> 01:49:15,266 The world must construe according to its wits. 1307 01:49:15,432 --> 01:49:18,686 This court must construe according to the law. 1308 01:49:28,237 --> 01:49:31,198 My lords, I wish to call Sir Richard Rich! 1309 01:49:32,866 --> 01:49:35,619 Richard Rich, come into court. 1310 01:49:35,911 --> 01:49:37,580 Richard Rich! 1311 01:49:58,892 --> 01:50:02,587 "I do swear the evidence I'll give before the court shall be the truth... 1312 01:50:02,687 --> 01:50:05,048 "the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." 1313 01:50:05,148 --> 01:50:06,858 "So help me God," sir. 1314 01:50:07,275 --> 01:50:08,693 "So help me God." 1315 01:50:11,487 --> 01:50:15,240 Now Rich, on May 12, you were at the Tower? 1316 01:50:15,532 --> 01:50:17,226 - I was. - For what purpose? 1317 01:50:17,326 --> 01:50:19,603 I was sent to carry away the prisoner's books. 1318 01:50:19,703 --> 01:50:21,939 - Did you talk with the prisoner? - Yes. 1319 01:50:22,039 --> 01:50:24,775 Did you talk of the King's supremacy of the Church? 1320 01:50:24,875 --> 01:50:25,918 Yes. 1321 01:50:26,210 --> 01:50:27,836 What did you say? 1322 01:50:28,503 --> 01:50:31,573 I said to him, "Supposing there were an act of parliament... 1323 01:50:31,673 --> 01:50:34,326 "to say that I, Richard Rich, were to be king. 1324 01:50:34,426 --> 01:50:37,346 "Would not you, Master More, take me for king?" 1325 01:50:37,554 --> 01:50:39,014 "That I would," he said. 1326 01:50:42,768 --> 01:50:45,062 "For then you would be king." 1327 01:50:47,481 --> 01:50:48,523 Yes? 1328 01:50:49,815 --> 01:50:53,319 Then he said, "But I will put you a higher case. 1329 01:50:54,028 --> 01:50:59,033 "How, if there were an act of parliament, to say that God should not be God?" 1330 01:50:59,408 --> 01:51:02,119 - This is true and then you said... - Silence! 1331 01:51:02,745 --> 01:51:03,955 Continue. 1332 01:51:06,624 --> 01:51:10,503 But then I said, "I will put you a middle case. 1333 01:51:11,003 --> 01:51:13,656 "Parliament has made our King Head of the Church. 1334 01:51:13,756 --> 01:51:15,758 "Why will you not accept him?" 1335 01:51:19,178 --> 01:51:20,263 Well? 1336 01:51:23,683 --> 01:51:27,477 And then he said, "Parliament had not the power to do it." 1337 01:51:29,229 --> 01:51:31,481 Repeat the prisoner's words. 1338 01:51:33,275 --> 01:51:34,359 He said: 1339 01:51:35,777 --> 01:51:38,280 "Parliament had not the competence." 1340 01:51:40,865 --> 01:51:42,742 Or words to that effect. 1341 01:51:43,034 --> 01:51:45,203 He denied the title! 1342 01:51:45,537 --> 01:51:46,872 He did. 1343 01:51:55,088 --> 01:52:00,009 In good faith, Rich, I am sorrier for your perjury than my peril. 1344 01:52:00,134 --> 01:52:02,761 - Do you deny this? - Yes! 1345 01:52:03,345 --> 01:52:06,582 You know if I were a man who heeded not the taking of an oath... 1346 01:52:06,682 --> 01:52:08,142 I need not be here. 1347 01:52:08,726 --> 01:52:11,228 Now, I will take an oath. 1348 01:52:13,063 --> 01:52:15,941 If what Master Rich has said is true... 1349 01:52:16,358 --> 01:52:20,321 I pray I may never see God in the face. 1350 01:52:21,363 --> 01:52:25,075 Which I would not say, were it otherwise, for anything on earth! 1351 01:52:25,201 --> 01:52:27,912 - That is not evidence. - Is it probable... 1352 01:52:28,704 --> 01:52:33,274 Is it probable that after so long a silence on this... 1353 01:52:33,374 --> 01:52:35,944 the very point so urgently sought of me... 1354 01:52:36,044 --> 01:52:39,839 I should open my mind to such a man as that? 1355 01:52:41,424 --> 01:52:44,802 Sir Richard, do you wish to modify your testimony? 1356 01:52:45,929 --> 01:52:47,038 No, my lord. 1357 01:52:47,138 --> 01:52:49,749 Is there anything you wish to take away from it? 1358 01:52:49,849 --> 01:52:50,959 No, my lord. 1359 01:52:51,059 --> 01:52:52,936 Have you anything to add? 1360 01:52:53,228 --> 01:52:54,520 No, my lord. 1361 01:52:55,813 --> 01:52:59,067 - Have you, Sir Thomas? - To what purpose? 1362 01:53:03,029 --> 01:53:04,697 I am a dead man. 1363 01:53:08,408 --> 01:53:10,327 You have your will of me. 1364 01:53:11,453 --> 01:53:13,789 Then the witness may withdraw. 1365 01:53:21,129 --> 01:53:24,341 There is one question I would like to ask the witness. 1366 01:53:26,885 --> 01:53:30,097 That's a chain of office you're wearing. May I see it? 1367 01:53:38,146 --> 01:53:39,523 The Red Dragon. 1368 01:53:39,856 --> 01:53:41,048 What's this? 1369 01:53:41,148 --> 01:53:44,277 Sir Richard is appointed Attorney General for Wales. 1370 01:53:44,485 --> 01:53:45,820 For Wales. 1371 01:53:47,363 --> 01:53:52,535 Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. 1372 01:53:54,412 --> 01:53:55,913 But for Wales. 1373 01:54:04,297 --> 01:54:05,798 My lords! I've done. 1374 01:54:06,883 --> 01:54:09,510 The jury will retire and consider the evidence. 1375 01:54:11,596 --> 01:54:16,182 Considering the evidence, it shouldn't be necessary for them to retire. 1376 01:54:18,685 --> 01:54:20,353 Is it necessary? 1377 01:54:27,152 --> 01:54:29,905 Then is the prisoner guilty or not guilty? 1378 01:54:35,076 --> 01:54:36,745 Guilty, my lord! 1379 01:54:47,255 --> 01:54:51,050 Sir Thomas More, you have been found guilty of high treason. 1380 01:54:51,175 --> 01:54:53,636 - The sentence of the court... - My lords! 1381 01:54:54,428 --> 01:54:58,390 When I was practicing the law, the manner was to ask the prisoner... 1382 01:54:58,515 --> 01:55:02,436 before pronouncing sentence, if he had anything to say. 1383 01:55:02,811 --> 01:55:04,605 Have you anything to say? 1384 01:55:05,272 --> 01:55:06,315 Yes. 1385 01:55:17,451 --> 01:55:20,538 Since the court has determined to condemn me... 1386 01:55:21,664 --> 01:55:23,415 God knoweth how... 1387 01:55:24,499 --> 01:55:27,794 I will now discharge my mind... 1388 01:55:28,378 --> 01:55:32,715 concerning the indictment and the King's title. 1389 01:55:36,261 --> 01:55:40,765 The indictment is grounded in an act of parliament... 1390 01:55:41,140 --> 01:55:43,960 which is directly repugnant... 1391 01:55:44,060 --> 01:55:47,730 to the law of God and His Holy Church. 1392 01:55:47,897 --> 01:55:52,135 The supreme government of which no temper able person... 1393 01:55:52,235 --> 01:55:56,406 may by any law presume to take upon him. 1394 01:55:57,282 --> 01:55:58,991 This was granted... 1395 01:55:59,741 --> 01:56:01,243 by the mouth... 1396 01:56:01,994 --> 01:56:04,538 of our Savior, Christ Himself... 1397 01:56:05,414 --> 01:56:09,960 to St. Peter and the bishops of Rome whilst He lived... 1398 01:56:10,669 --> 01:56:13,964 and was personally present... 1399 01:56:16,383 --> 01:56:18,010 here on earth. 1400 01:56:20,262 --> 01:56:24,099 It is therefore insufficient in law... 1401 01:56:24,725 --> 01:56:27,686 to charge any Christian to obey it. 1402 01:56:29,146 --> 01:56:30,631 And more than this... 1403 01:56:30,731 --> 01:56:35,568 the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta... 1404 01:56:35,693 --> 01:56:39,280 and in the King's own coronation oath. 1405 01:56:41,115 --> 01:56:43,743 Now, we plainly see you are malicious! 1406 01:56:44,243 --> 01:56:45,494 Not so. 1407 01:56:47,914 --> 01:56:49,999 I am the King's true subject... 1408 01:56:50,875 --> 01:56:54,503 and I pray for him and all the realm. 1409 01:56:56,297 --> 01:56:57,882 I do none harm. 1410 01:56:59,050 --> 01:57:00,927 I say none harm. 1411 01:57:01,928 --> 01:57:04,222 I think none harm. 1412 01:57:06,307 --> 01:57:09,351 And if this be not enough to keep a man alive... 1413 01:57:09,768 --> 01:57:13,355 then in good faith, I long not to live. 1414 01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:16,733 Nevertheless... 1415 01:57:17,692 --> 01:57:22,264 it is not for the supremacy that you have sought my blood... 1416 01:57:22,364 --> 01:57:26,576 but because I would not bend to the marriage! 1417 01:57:35,001 --> 01:57:38,129 You have been found guilty of high treason. 1418 01:57:38,964 --> 01:57:42,007 The sentence of the court is that you be taken... 1419 01:57:42,132 --> 01:57:44,051 to the Tower of London... 1420 01:57:46,178 --> 01:57:49,515 until the day hence to the appointment... 1421 01:57:50,516 --> 01:57:52,601 for your execution! 1422 01:58:08,200 --> 01:58:11,453 I am commanded by the King to be brief... 1423 01:58:12,204 --> 01:58:15,124 and since I am the King's obedient subject... 1424 01:58:15,665 --> 01:58:17,208 brief I will be. 1425 01:58:18,710 --> 01:58:21,963 I die His Majesty's good servant... 1426 01:58:22,964 --> 01:58:24,549 but God's first. 1427 01:58:31,389 --> 01:58:33,683 I forgive you, right readily. 1428 01:58:39,731 --> 01:58:42,025 Be not afraid of your office. 1429 01:58:42,442 --> 01:58:44,152 You send me to God. 1430 01:58:46,613 --> 01:58:48,556 You're very sure of that, Sir Thomas? 1431 01:58:48,656 --> 01:58:51,992 He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to him. 1432 01:59:14,765 --> 01:59:18,210 Thomas More's head was stuck on Traitor's Gate for a month. 1433 01:59:18,310 --> 01:59:22,189 Then his daughter, Margaret, removed it and kept it 'til her death. 1434 01:59:22,981 --> 01:59:26,901 Cromwell was beheaded for high treason five years after More. 1435 01:59:27,401 --> 01:59:30,071 The Archbishop was burned at the stake. 1436 01:59:30,696 --> 01:59:33,850 The Duke of Norfolk should have been executed for high treason... 1437 01:59:33,950 --> 01:59:36,953 but the King died of syphilis the night before. 1438 01:59:37,912 --> 01:59:40,831 Richard Rich became Chancellor of England... 1439 01:59:41,457 --> 01:59:43,292 and died in his bed.