A Man for All Seasons

0:00:13 > 0:00:15BIRDS TWITTER

0:02:46 > 0:02:48BIRDS SQUAWK

0:04:32 > 0:04:34FAINT LAUGHTER INSIDE

0:04:40 > 0:04:43MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY

0:04:48 > 0:04:50MEN AND WOMEN LAUGH AND CHAT

0:05:01 > 0:05:05(MAN) The bishop says every second bastard is fathered by a priest!

0:05:05 > 0:05:08LAUGHTER

0:05:08 > 0:05:09CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:05:11 > 0:05:12Not in Utopia!

0:05:12 > 0:05:17- Why?- There the priests are holy.

0:05:15 > 0:05:17And therefore few.

0:05:17 > 0:05:18LAUGHTER

0:05:18 > 0:05:21Is it anything interesting, Matthew?

0:05:21 > 0:05:27Bless you, sir, I don't know.

0:05:24 > 0:05:27Bless you too, Matthew.

0:05:28 > 0:05:33(WOMAN) Come, we have some holy priests in England, too!

0:05:33 > 0:05:34Name some.

0:05:34 > 0:05:35Father James.

0:05:35 > 0:05:37The man is a simpleton!

0:05:37 > 0:05:40It's from Cardinal Wolsey.

0:05:41 > 0:05:45What's he want?!

0:05:43 > 0:05:45Me.

0:05:45 > 0:05:49- When?- Now.

0:05:46 > 0:05:49In Hampton Court? You won't be there by midnight.

0:05:49 > 0:05:55The King's business.

0:05:50 > 0:05:55The Queen's business.

0:05:52 > 0:05:55Mistress Anne Boleyn's business!

0:05:55 > 0:05:58Well, it's all the Cardinal's business.

0:05:58 > 0:06:03Very true. And when he calls, you all come running, day or night.

0:06:03 > 0:06:07What is the man?! A butcher's son!

0:06:05 > 0:06:07Chancellor of England.

0:06:07 > 0:06:10No, that's his office. What's the man?

0:06:10 > 0:06:13Surely, your grace, when a man rises so high so swiftly...

0:06:13 > 0:06:16..we must think him misplaced in origins.

0:06:16 > 0:06:23That, at least, was the opinion of Aristotle, and...

0:06:19 > 0:06:23A butcher's son and looks it!

0:06:23 > 0:06:25His looks, yes, I give you his looks.

0:06:25 > 0:06:27(LAUGHTER)

0:06:27 > 0:06:33What did you say, Richard?

0:06:29 > 0:06:33Er, nothing, Sir Thomas. It was out of place.

0:06:34 > 0:06:36And Wolsey's still a butcher.

0:06:36 > 0:06:42And you're a member of the King's high council, not an errand boy!

0:06:40 > 0:06:42That is why I must go.

0:06:42 > 0:06:45The Duke would go, if the Cardinal called.

0:06:45 > 0:06:47Hmm. I... might.

0:06:47 > 0:06:49(LAUGHTER)

0:06:49 > 0:06:52I'll be back for breakfast. Go to bed.

0:06:52 > 0:06:57(ALL) Dear Lord, give us rest, or if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

0:06:57 > 0:07:02Careful only for our souls' salvation, for Christ's sake, amen.

0:07:03 > 0:07:09Bless our lord the King.

0:07:05 > 0:07:09(WOMEN) And bless our lord the King.

0:07:08 > 0:07:09- Amen.- Excuse me, gentlemen.

0:07:09 > 0:07:11Goodnight, your grace.

0:07:12 > 0:07:13Thomas?

0:07:16 > 0:07:19Keep clear of Wolsey. He's a frightened man.

0:07:21 > 0:07:27Who is that?

0:07:22 > 0:07:27- A young friend.- What's he want?

0:07:24 > 0:07:27What they all want. A position.

0:07:27 > 0:07:31Can you give him a position?

0:07:28 > 0:07:31Do you recommend him?

0:07:30 > 0:07:31No.

0:07:40 > 0:07:42LOW HUM OF VOICES

0:07:47 > 0:07:50Sir Thomas!

0:07:49 > 0:07:50No.

0:07:50 > 0:07:53Did you recommend me?

0:07:52 > 0:07:53No.

0:07:53 > 0:07:57Richard, I may have a position for you.

0:07:57 > 0:08:01What?!

0:07:58 > 0:08:01- What position?!- Not now, tomorrow.

0:08:41 > 0:08:44For you all, boatman.

0:08:43 > 0:08:44Thank you, sir.

0:09:04 > 0:09:10Sir Thomas is here, your grace.

0:09:07 > 0:09:10Sir Thomas.

0:09:08 > 0:09:10Master Cromwell.

0:09:24 > 0:09:29You opposed me in the council this morning, Thomas.

0:09:27 > 0:09:29Yes, your grace.

0:09:29 > 0:09:33You were the only one.

0:09:32 > 0:09:33Yes, your grace.

0:09:34 > 0:09:40You are a fool.

0:09:36 > 0:09:40Thank God there is only one fool on the council.

0:09:43 > 0:09:51Why did you oppose me?

0:09:45 > 0:09:51I thought your grace was wrong.

0:09:49 > 0:09:51A matter of conscience.

0:09:52 > 0:09:56You are a constant regret to me, Thomas.

0:09:56 > 0:10:02If you could just see facts flat on, without that horrible moral squint.

0:10:02 > 0:10:06With a little common sense you could have made a statesman.

0:10:06 > 0:10:08FANFARE

0:10:12 > 0:10:14The King.

0:10:22 > 0:10:24HOOVES CLOP

0:10:38 > 0:10:41Where has he been?

0:10:41 > 0:10:43Do you know?

0:10:43 > 0:10:45I, your grace?

0:10:45 > 0:10:48Oh, spare me your discretion!

0:10:49 > 0:10:53He's been... to play in the muck again!

0:10:54 > 0:10:57He's been to Mistress Anne Boleyn.

0:11:02 > 0:11:03More...

0:11:03 > 0:11:07Are you going to help me?

0:11:09 > 0:11:12If your grace will be specific.

0:11:12 > 0:11:14(SIGHS) You're a plodder!

0:11:14 > 0:11:18So plod! The King wants a son. What are you going to do about it?

0:11:18 > 0:11:23I'm sure the King needs no advice from me on what to do about it.

0:11:23 > 0:11:27Thomas, I give you my word there's no-one here.

0:11:27 > 0:11:30I didn't suppose there was, your grace.

0:11:32 > 0:11:38(LOUD) You favour a change of dynasty? Two Tudors are sufficient?!

0:11:38 > 0:11:41Then he needs a son. What will you do?!

0:11:41 > 0:11:44I pray for it daily.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46God's teeth! He means it.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49That thing out there. At least she's fertile.

0:11:49 > 0:11:55- She's not his wife.- No.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55Catherine's his wife. And she's barren. Pray for a miracle!

0:11:55 > 0:12:00There are precedents.

0:11:58 > 0:12:00Yes.

0:12:00 > 0:12:05Alright, good. Pray. Pray, by all means.

0:12:05 > 0:12:09But in addition to prayer there is effort.

0:12:09 > 0:12:12My effort is to secure a divorce.

0:12:15 > 0:12:17Have I your support or have I not?

0:12:19 > 0:12:22The Pope gave a dispensation...

0:12:22 > 0:12:27..so that the King might marry his brother's widow for state reasons.

0:12:27 > 0:12:31Now we are to ask the Pope to dispense with his dispensation?

0:12:31 > 0:12:33Also for state reasons?

0:12:33 > 0:12:35I don't like plodding. Well?!

0:12:35 > 0:12:39Clearly all we have to do is approach His Holiness and ask him.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42We might influence the decision of His Holiness.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44By argument?

0:12:44 > 0:12:45Argument, yes. And...

0:12:46 > 0:12:48..pressure.

0:12:48 > 0:12:53Pressure applied to the church, church houses, church property?

0:12:54 > 0:12:56Pressure.

0:13:02 > 0:13:06No, your grace. I'm not going to help you.

0:13:09 > 0:13:10Then goodnight...

0:13:10 > 0:13:13..Master More.

0:13:15 > 0:13:20Let the dynasty die with Henry VIII and we'll have dynastic wars again!

0:13:20 > 0:13:23Blood-witted barons ramping the country from end to end!

0:13:23 > 0:13:25Is that what you want?!

0:13:26 > 0:13:28Very well.

0:13:28 > 0:13:30England needs an heir.

0:13:31 > 0:13:37Certain... measures, perhaps regrettable, perhaps not...

0:13:37 > 0:13:41There's much in the church which needs reformation, Thomas.

0:13:41 > 0:13:44Alright, regrettable!

0:13:44 > 0:13:47But necessary to get us an heir!

0:13:48 > 0:13:52Explain how you, as a councillor of England, obstruct these measures...

0:13:52 > 0:13:55..for the sake of your private conscience?

0:13:55 > 0:14:00I think when statesmen forsake their private conscience...

0:14:00 > 0:14:03..for the sake of their public duties...

0:14:03 > 0:14:07..they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

0:14:10 > 0:14:13And we shall have my prayers to fall back on.

0:14:13 > 0:14:20You'd like that, wouldn't you?! To govern the country with prayers.

0:14:18 > 0:14:20Yes, I should.

0:14:20 > 0:14:23I'd like to be there when you try.

0:14:24 > 0:14:27Who will wear this after me, hmm?

0:14:28 > 0:14:35Who's our next chancellor? You?

0:14:31 > 0:14:35Fisher? Suffolk?

0:14:33 > 0:14:35- Fisher for me.- But for the King?

0:14:35 > 0:14:38What about my secretary, Master Cromwell?

0:14:38 > 0:14:40Cromwell?

0:14:41 > 0:14:43He's a very able man.

0:14:43 > 0:14:45But?

0:14:46 > 0:14:48Me rather then Cromwell.

0:14:48 > 0:14:51Then come down to earth.

0:14:54 > 0:14:59Till you do... then you and I are enemies.

0:15:00 > 0:15:03As your grace wishes it.

0:15:05 > 0:15:06As God wills.

0:15:06 > 0:15:08Perhaps, your grace.

0:15:10 > 0:15:11More!

0:15:11 > 0:15:14You should have been a cleric.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Like yourself, your grace?

0:15:28 > 0:15:30Goodnight, Sir Thomas.

0:15:32 > 0:15:34AVID HUM OF VOICES

0:15:37 > 0:15:38Sir Thomas!

0:15:39 > 0:15:41Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas!

0:15:41 > 0:15:43Sir Thomas.

0:15:44 > 0:15:46What's this?

0:15:46 > 0:15:48From some grateful poor folk in Leicester.

0:15:48 > 0:15:52You do more good than you know, Sir Thomas!

0:15:55 > 0:15:59My daughter has a case, sir, in the court of poor man's causes.

0:15:59 > 0:16:01Baked apples, sir.

0:16:01 > 0:16:03To sweeten my judgement.

0:16:03 > 0:16:08I'll give your daughter the same judgement I'd give my own.

0:16:08 > 0:16:10A fair one, quickly.

0:16:10 > 0:16:12(ALL TALK AT ONCE)

0:16:12 > 0:16:17I understand. Yes, I'll read it. Thank you. I'll read it. Thank you.

0:16:17 > 0:16:19Thank you.

0:16:20 > 0:16:28Good evening, Sir Thomas.

0:16:22 > 0:16:28- I'll read it.- It's awkward.

0:16:26 > 0:16:28- I could- I'll read it.

0:16:28 > 0:16:29Just a...

0:16:30 > 0:16:32BOAT!

0:16:32 > 0:16:34Sir!

0:16:43 > 0:16:46CLOCK STRIKES BUT HOUR IS UNCLEAR

0:16:54 > 0:16:57Chelsea, sir?

0:16:56 > 0:16:57Chelsea.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00I expect you'll make it worth my while, sir.

0:17:00 > 0:17:06Have you a licence?

0:17:01 > 0:17:06God bless you, yes, sir, I have.

0:17:03 > 0:17:06- Then the fares are fixed.- They are.

0:17:06 > 0:17:11Hampton to Chelsea downstream, a penny happenny, upstream the same.

0:17:11 > 0:17:17Whoever makes the rules doesn't row!

0:17:13 > 0:17:17No. Thruppence if you get me home for breakfast.

0:17:17 > 0:17:18Thank you, sir!

0:17:22 > 0:17:24BIRDS CALL

0:17:45 > 0:17:47A nice cup, sir.

0:17:48 > 0:17:49Yes.

0:18:02 > 0:18:04Here, no!

0:18:06 > 0:18:08That's worth money, sir!

0:18:20 > 0:18:23WATER SPLASHES

0:18:44 > 0:18:46Mind your way, sir.

0:18:51 > 0:18:53Thank you, sir.

0:18:59 > 0:19:03Have you been here all night?

0:19:01 > 0:19:03Yes.

0:19:03 > 0:19:09You said there was a post.

0:19:06 > 0:19:08Oh, yes, yes. I'll offer you a post.

0:19:08 > 0:19:12With a house, a servant, and £50 a year.

0:19:12 > 0:19:15What? What post?!

0:19:13 > 0:19:15At the new school.

0:19:17 > 0:19:19A teacher?

0:19:19 > 0:19:23Richard, no-one's going to give you a place at court.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26Master Cromwell says he'll help me!

0:19:29 > 0:19:30Cromwell?

0:19:30 > 0:19:34Well, if you know Cromwell, you don't need my help.

0:19:34 > 0:19:36Sir Thomas?

0:19:38 > 0:19:42If only you knew how much, much rather I'd your help than his.

0:19:43 > 0:19:46Not to a place at court.

0:19:46 > 0:19:48Why not?

0:19:50 > 0:19:51Look.

0:19:51 > 0:19:53What is it?

0:19:53 > 0:19:55It's a bribe.

0:19:56 > 0:20:00"I am the gift of Avril Machin."

0:20:00 > 0:20:05And Avril Machin has a lawsuit in the court of requests.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07Italian silver.

0:20:07 > 0:20:09Take it.

0:20:09 > 0:20:11No joke.

0:20:12 > 0:20:14Thank you!

0:20:17 > 0:20:22What will you do with it?

0:20:19 > 0:20:22Sell it.

0:20:20 > 0:20:22- And buy what?- A decent gown.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26But Richard, that's a little bribe.

0:20:26 > 0:20:31At court they offer many things. Manors, houses, coats of arms.

0:20:31 > 0:20:35A man should go where he won't be tempted.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Why not be a teacher?

0:20:37 > 0:20:41You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps a great one.

0:20:41 > 0:20:49- And who would know it?- You.

0:20:43 > 0:20:49Your pupils, your friends.

0:20:46 > 0:20:49God. Not a bad public, that.

0:20:49 > 0:20:51Oh...

0:20:52 > 0:20:54And a quiet life.

0:20:54 > 0:21:00- You- say that?! Come from talking with the Cardinal!

0:20:58 > 0:21:00Talking with the Cardinal.

0:21:00 > 0:21:06It's eating your heart out the high affairs of state.

0:21:04 > 0:21:06The divorce.

0:21:06 > 0:21:10Boatman!

0:21:08 > 0:21:10Sir?

0:21:10 > 0:21:13Take this gentleman to the New Inn.

0:21:12 > 0:21:13Sir.

0:21:13 > 0:21:15Sir Thomas? Thank you.

0:21:16 > 0:21:18Be a teacher.

0:21:28 > 0:21:33- Matthew.- Sir.

0:21:29 > 0:21:33- Lady Alice in bed?- Yes, sir.

0:21:32 > 0:21:33- Lady Margaret?- No, sir.

0:21:33 > 0:21:40Master Roper's here, sir.

0:21:36 > 0:21:40At this hour?! Who let him in?!

0:21:38 > 0:21:40He's a hard man to keep out, sir!

0:22:02 > 0:22:08Will wants to marry me, Father.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08Well, he can't marry you.

0:22:09 > 0:22:14Sir Thomas, I am called to the bar.

0:22:11 > 0:22:14Oh, congratulations, Roper!

0:22:14 > 0:22:19My family might not be at the palace

0:22:17 > 0:22:19There's nothing wrong with them.

0:22:19 > 0:22:22There's not much wrong with you.

0:22:23 > 0:22:28Except you seem to need a clock.

0:22:25 > 0:22:28I can buy a clock, sir.

0:22:28 > 0:22:32Roper, the answer is no, and will be as long as you're a heretic.

0:22:32 > 0:22:36A word I don't like, Sir Thomas!

0:22:34 > 0:22:36It's not a likeable thing.

0:22:36 > 0:22:40The church is heretical. Dr Luther has proved that.

0:22:40 > 0:22:46- An ex-communicat. - From a heretic church!

0:22:42 > 0:22:46A shop, salvation by the shilling!

0:22:46 > 0:22:54- And divorces!- Will, no!

0:22:48 > 0:22:54- I know it's true.- No sense of place!

0:22:51 > 0:22:54(YAWNS) No sense of time!

0:22:54 > 0:22:56Now listen, Will.

0:22:56 > 0:23:01Two years ago you were a passionate churchman, now a keen Lutheran.

0:23:01 > 0:23:06We pray that when your head finishes turning your face is to the front!

0:23:07 > 0:23:11Is your horse here?

0:23:09 > 0:23:11No, sir, I walked.

0:23:11 > 0:23:14Take a horse from the stables and get back home.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17Go along.

0:23:17 > 0:23:19May I come again?

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Yes.

0:23:23 > 0:23:24Soon.

0:23:29 > 0:23:34Is that final, Father?

0:23:31 > 0:23:34As long as he's a heretic, absolute.

0:23:37 > 0:23:39What did Wolsey want?

0:23:41 > 0:23:43Nice boy, young Will.

0:23:46 > 0:23:49Terribly strong principles, that one.

0:23:49 > 0:23:50CRASH

0:23:50 > 0:23:51Clumsy, too.

0:23:51 > 0:23:55You're very pensive.

0:23:53 > 0:23:55You're very gay.

0:23:55 > 0:23:57Was it the divorce?

0:23:58 > 0:23:59To bed.

0:23:59 > 0:24:04They're a cantankerous lot, the Ropers. Swimming against the stream!

0:24:04 > 0:24:09Old Roper was just the same

0:24:06 > 0:24:09You don't want to talk about it.

0:24:10 > 0:24:12No.

0:24:15 > 0:24:18Oh! I'm sorry you were wakened, chick!

0:24:18 > 0:24:22I wasn't sleeping very deeply. What did Wolsey want?

0:24:23 > 0:24:27Er... Will Roper's been.

0:24:25 > 0:24:27Will Roper?!

0:24:27 > 0:24:33He's been here all night. He wants to marry Meg.

0:24:30 > 0:24:33- Why you don't beat that girl !- No.

0:24:33 > 0:24:38She's full of education, and it's a delicate commodity. Goodnight, Meg.

0:24:38 > 0:24:40Goodnight.

0:24:43 > 0:24:50Marry Meg! A lawyer's son!

0:24:46 > 0:24:50She's a lawyer's daughter.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50SHE SNORTS

0:24:51 > 0:24:56Norfolk spoke of you for chancellor of England before he left.

0:24:56 > 0:25:01He's a dangerous friend, then. Wolsey's chancellor, God help him.

0:25:01 > 0:25:07But Norfolk said if Wolsey fell

0:25:03 > 0:25:07If Wolsey fell, the splash would swamp small boats like ours.

0:25:07 > 0:25:12No, there'll be no new chancellors while Wolsey lives.

0:25:14 > 0:25:16WIND HOWLS

0:25:21 > 0:25:23HORSES APPROACH

0:25:40 > 0:25:42BELL TOLLS

0:25:44 > 0:25:46MONKS SING IN LATIN

0:25:58 > 0:25:59SINGING BREAKS OFF

0:25:59 > 0:26:03The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England!

0:26:16 > 0:26:19Have you any message for His Majesty?

0:26:22 > 0:26:24(SLURRED) If I had served God...

0:26:24 > 0:26:27..half so well as I have served my King...

0:26:27 > 0:26:32..God would not have left me here to die in this place.

0:26:33 > 0:26:37Thank God for it! The King would have you die in the Tower!

0:26:40 > 0:26:42DOOR SLAMS

0:26:42 > 0:26:44ELABORATE FANFARE RINGS OUT

0:27:00 > 0:27:04I am straightly charged by the King himself...

0:27:04 > 0:27:10..here openly to declare how much all England is beholden to this man

0:27:10 > 0:27:15..and how worthy he is to have the highest room in the realm...

0:27:15 > 0:27:19..and how dearly the King's Grace doth both love and trust him...

0:27:19 > 0:27:24..not only for much good counsel delivered in council...

0:27:24 > 0:27:29..but for better council yet, which is privy to the King's person.

0:27:29 > 0:27:32And this same Sir Thomas More...

0:27:32 > 0:27:39..here made before you all to be lord chancellor of the realm.

0:27:52 > 0:27:54FANFARE

0:28:04 > 0:28:06MAJESTIC MUSIC RINGS OUT

0:28:35 > 0:28:37RAUCOUS LAUGHTER

0:28:40 > 0:28:42COURTIERS LAUGH

0:29:10 > 0:29:11Jesus!

0:29:14 > 0:29:17Calm yourself, Matthew. Fetch Lady Alice.

0:29:17 > 0:29:19WHIMPERS

0:29:19 > 0:29:21DOG BARKS EXCITEDLY

0:29:27 > 0:29:29Mmm.

0:29:29 > 0:29:31That's very well.

0:29:32 > 0:29:33BARKING OUTSIDE

0:29:35 > 0:29:37My lady, the King!

0:29:39 > 0:29:42DOG BARKS HYSTERICALLY

0:30:17 > 0:30:19HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA!

0:30:19 > 0:30:23THEY START TO TITTER NERVOUSLY, THEN LAUGH LOUDLY

0:30:23 > 0:30:25LAUGHTER CONTINUES

0:30:35 > 0:30:37FORCED JOLLITY CONTINUES

0:30:40 > 0:30:44Remember, it's a surprise.

0:30:42 > 0:30:44But he'll know we expect

0:30:44 > 0:30:47It's a great honour, a friend calling.

0:30:47 > 0:30:54What's he really coming for?

0:30:48 > 0:30:54The divorce. He wants an answer.

0:30:51 > 0:30:54- He's had an answer.- He wants another

0:30:54 > 0:30:55< THOMAS!

0:31:01 > 0:31:08Your majesty does my house more honour than I fear it will bear.

0:31:05 > 0:31:08No ceremony, Thomas, no ceremony.

0:31:08 > 0:31:13A passing fancy, happened to be on the river. Look, mud!

0:31:12 > 0:31:13THEY LAUGH

0:31:15 > 0:31:18By heaven, what an evening!

0:31:18 > 0:31:21Lady Alice. I fear we came upon you unexpectedly.

0:31:21 > 0:31:22Yes, your grace.

0:31:22 > 0:31:27Well, no, your grace. That is... we are ready to entertain.

0:31:27 > 0:31:29This is my daughter Margaret, sire.

0:31:29 > 0:31:33She has not yet had the honour to meet your grace.

0:31:33 > 0:31:36Why, Margaret, they told me you were a scholar.

0:31:36 > 0:31:38Answer, Margaret.

0:31:38 > 0:31:41Among women I pass for one, your grace.

0:31:43 > 0:31:48Antiquone modo Latina loqueris an oxoniensi?

0:31:48 > 0:31:49Quem me docuit pater, Domine.

0:31:50 > 0:31:53Bene. Optimum est.

0:31:54 > 0:31:58Graecam me linguam quoque te docuit?

0:31:58 > 0:32:02Graecam me docuit non pater meus, sed mei patris amicus...

0:32:02 > 0:32:05..Johannes Coletus, Sancti Pauli Decanus.

0:32:05 > 0:32:10In litris Graecis Tamen, non minus quam Latinis ars magistri...

0:32:11 > 0:32:15Can you dance, too?

0:32:13 > 0:32:15Not well, your grace.

0:32:17 > 0:32:20Well, I dance superlatively!

0:32:20 > 0:32:22That's a dancer's leg, Margaret!

0:32:22 > 0:32:24ALL LAUGH

0:32:33 > 0:32:37Lady Alice, the river has given me an appetite.

0:32:37 > 0:32:41If your grace would share a very simple supper...

0:32:41 > 0:32:44It would please me. Lead them in. Thomas and I will follow.

0:32:44 > 0:32:45Matthew!

0:32:45 > 0:32:49My lords and gentlemen!

0:32:49 > 0:32:51LOW HUM OF VOICES

0:32:53 > 0:32:56Margaret?

0:32:54 > 0:32:56Your grace?

0:32:56 > 0:33:02Do you like music?

0:32:58 > 0:33:02Yes, your grace.

0:32:59 > 0:33:02They'll play to you.

0:33:07 > 0:33:09SOFT MUSIC PLAYS INSIDE

0:33:14 > 0:33:17INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION

0:33:25 > 0:33:29Ah, now, listen to this!

0:33:27 > 0:33:29SLOW, HAUNTING TUNE

0:33:29 > 0:33:30Sit down.

0:33:32 > 0:33:35Be seated. No courtship, Thomas.

0:33:38 > 0:33:41You're my friend. Are you not?

0:33:41 > 0:33:43Your majesty...

0:33:43 > 0:33:46Thank God I have a friend for my chancellor.

0:33:46 > 0:33:51Readier to be friend, I trust, than he was to be chancellor.

0:33:49 > 0:33:51My knowledge of my abilities...

0:33:51 > 0:33:55I will judge of your abilities, Thomas.

0:33:56 > 0:34:01You know that Wolsey named you for chancellor?

0:34:01 > 0:34:02Wolsey?

0:34:02 > 0:34:05Aye. Before he died, Wolsey named you. He was no fool.

0:34:05 > 0:34:09He was a statesman of incomparable ability, your grace.

0:34:10 > 0:34:13- Was- he?

0:34:14 > 0:34:15- Was- he so?

0:34:15 > 0:34:18Then why did he fail me?

0:34:21 > 0:34:23It was villainy, then!

0:34:23 > 0:34:27Yes, villainy! Secret opposition, secret!

0:34:27 > 0:34:32But deliberate, wilful opposition! He wanted to be Pope, to master me!

0:34:32 > 0:34:34Is it that, because I am simple and plain...

0:34:34 > 0:34:38..and deal with every man straightforwardly...

0:34:38 > 0:34:41..DO THEY TAKE ME FOR A SIMPLETON?!

0:34:46 > 0:34:51Wolsey was a proud man, Thomas.

0:34:51 > 0:34:54Pride right through, and he failed me.

0:34:54 > 0:34:59He failed me in the one thing that matters, then as now.

0:35:01 > 0:35:04But look.

0:35:04 > 0:35:06Be seated.

0:35:10 > 0:35:12What an evening!

0:35:13 > 0:35:18A man could fight a lion, eh?

0:35:16 > 0:35:18Some men could, your grace.

0:35:19 > 0:35:20Thomas...

0:35:20 > 0:35:27On the... matter of my divorce. Have you thought of it since we spoke?

0:35:26 > 0:35:27Of little else.

0:35:27 > 0:35:29Do you see your way clear to me?

0:35:29 > 0:35:32To put away Queen Catherine, sire...

0:35:32 > 0:35:36I see so clearly that I cannot come with your grace...

0:35:36 > 0:35:39..that my endeavour is not to think of it at all.

0:35:39 > 0:35:42THEN YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT ENOUGH!

0:35:48 > 0:35:50Lilac.

0:35:51 > 0:35:52I have them at Hampton.

0:35:52 > 0:35:55Not so fine as this, though.

0:35:57 > 0:36:00I am in an excellent frame of mind.

0:36:05 > 0:36:08Thomas, you must consider I stand in peril of my soul.

0:36:08 > 0:36:13It was no marriage. I have lived in incest with my brother's widow.

0:36:13 > 0:36:19Leviticus: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife"

0:36:19 > 0:36:25Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 16.

0:36:22 > 0:36:25Yes, but Deuteronomy

0:36:24 > 0:36:25Is ambiguous!

0:36:25 > 0:36:31I am not fitted to meddle in these matters. It seems the holy see

0:36:29 > 0:36:31Thomas, Thomas, Thomas!

0:36:31 > 0:36:35Does a man need a pope to tell him when he's sinned?!

0:36:35 > 0:36:39It was a sin. God's punished me.

0:36:40 > 0:36:42I have no son.

0:36:42 > 0:36:46Son after son she's borne me, all dead at birth...

0:36:46 > 0:36:48..or dead within the month.

0:36:48 > 0:36:51Never saw the hand of God so clear!

0:36:51 > 0:36:53It's my duty to put away the Queen!

0:36:53 > 0:36:57The popes back to Peter shall not come between me and my duty!

0:36:57 > 0:37:01How is it you cannot see? Everyone else does.

0:37:01 > 0:37:06Then why does your grace need my poor support?

0:37:04 > 0:37:06Because you're honest.

0:37:06 > 0:37:09And more to the purpose, known to be honest.

0:37:09 > 0:37:12Some, like Norfolk, follow me because I wear the crown.

0:37:12 > 0:37:16Some, like Cromwell, are jackals and I am their tiger.

0:37:16 > 0:37:20A mass follows me because it follows ought that moves!

0:37:20 > 0:37:22Then there's you.

0:37:23 > 0:37:28I am sick to think how much I must displease your grace.

0:37:28 > 0:37:32No, Thomas. I respect your sincerity.

0:37:33 > 0:37:40But respect, man, that's water in the desert.

0:37:45 > 0:37:47How did you like our music?

0:37:47 > 0:37:51That air they played, it had a certain... Tell me what you thought.

0:37:51 > 0:37:56Could it have been your grace's own?

0:37:54 > 0:37:55Discovered!

0:37:55 > 0:37:59Now I'll never know your true opinion, and that's irksome!

0:37:59 > 0:38:03We artists love praise, yet we love truth better.

0:38:03 > 0:38:05Then I will give my true opinion.

0:38:05 > 0:38:08To me it seemed... delightful.

0:38:09 > 0:38:14Thomas! I chose the right man for chancellor.

0:38:14 > 0:38:18I should add that my taste is reputedly deplorable.

0:38:18 > 0:38:23Your taste is excellent! It exactly coincides with my own!

0:38:25 > 0:38:27Ah!

0:38:27 > 0:38:29Music!

0:38:29 > 0:38:30Music...

0:38:30 > 0:38:37Send them back without me. I'll live here in Chelsea and make music.

0:38:37 > 0:38:39My house is at your grace's disposal.

0:38:39 > 0:38:42Touching this other business, mark you.

0:38:43 > 0:38:45I've no opposition.

0:38:46 > 0:38:48Your grace...

0:38:48 > 0:38:53No opposition, I say. No opposition.

0:38:53 > 0:38:55Be seated!

0:38:57 > 0:38:59I'll leave you out of it.

0:39:00 > 0:39:02But you are my chancellor.

0:39:02 > 0:39:07I don't take it kindly, and I'll have no opposition!

0:39:09 > 0:39:11I see how it will be!

0:39:12 > 0:39:14The bishops will oppose me!

0:39:14 > 0:39:19That fat princes of the church! Hypocrites, all hypocrites!

0:39:19 > 0:39:21Mind they do not take you in, Thomas!

0:39:21 > 0:39:29If I cannot serve your grace in this great matter of the Queen

0:39:27 > 0:39:29I HAVE NO QUEEN!!

0:39:29 > 0:39:31CATHERINE'S NOT MY WIFE!!

0:39:32 > 0:39:34No priest can make her so!

0:39:34 > 0:39:38They that say she is my wife are not only liars but traitors!

0:39:39 > 0:39:42YES, TRAITORS!!

0:39:42 > 0:39:44THAT I WILL NOT BROOK, NO!

0:39:44 > 0:39:50TREACHERY, TREACHERY, TREACHERY I WILL NOT BROOK! IT MADDENS ME!

0:39:50 > 0:39:56IT IS A DEADLY CANKER IN THE BODY POLITIC! AND I WILL HAVE IT OUT!!

0:40:04 > 0:40:05See?

0:40:07 > 0:40:12You see how you have maddened me? I hardly know myself.

0:40:19 > 0:40:28If you come with me there's no man I'd sooner raise, with my own hand.

0:40:25 > 0:40:28Oh, your grace overwhelms me!

0:40:29 > 0:40:31CLOCK STRIKES

0:40:36 > 0:40:41What's that?

0:40:38 > 0:40:41Eight o'clock, your grace.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44Lift yourself up, man.

0:40:45 > 0:40:50Have I not promised I'll leave you out of it?

0:40:51 > 0:40:55Shall we eat?!

0:40:53 > 0:40:55If your grace pleases.

0:40:58 > 0:41:00Eight o'clock, you said?

0:41:01 > 0:41:06The tide will be turning. I was forgetting the tide. I must go.

0:41:06 > 0:41:07I'm sorry, your grace.

0:41:07 > 0:41:11If I miss the tide, I'll not get back to Richmond.

0:41:11 > 0:41:12No, don't come!

0:41:16 > 0:41:18Lady Alice. I must go, I must catch the tide.

0:41:18 > 0:41:22Affairs call me, so we give you our thanks and say goodnight.

0:41:29 > 0:41:32CONFUSION OF VOICES AND BARKING

0:41:43 > 0:41:50What's this?! You crossed him?!

0:41:46 > 0:41:50- Somewhat.- Why?!

0:41:48 > 0:41:50I couldn't find the other way.

0:41:50 > 0:41:55You are too nice altogether!

0:41:51 > 0:41:55WOMAN, MIND YOUR HOUSE!

0:41:53 > 0:41:55I am minding my house!

0:41:58 > 0:42:02(CROWD CHEER) God save your majesty!

0:42:00 > 0:42:02God save your grace!

0:42:02 > 0:42:04CHEERING

0:42:04 > 0:42:07THEY CALL OUT AND CHEER HIM

0:42:13 > 0:42:15Lift!

0:42:18 > 0:42:20CHEERING CONTINUES

0:42:23 > 0:42:24Drop! Together.

0:42:24 > 0:42:26OARSMEN CHANT

0:42:36 > 0:42:38LAUGHS RAUCOUSLY

0:42:44 > 0:42:46CROWD LAUGH

0:42:59 > 0:43:01Are you coming my way, Rich?

0:43:03 > 0:43:04No.

0:43:05 > 0:43:08I think you should, you know.

0:43:08 > 0:43:10I can't tell you anything.

0:43:16 > 0:43:18Well?!

0:43:21 > 0:43:24PEOPLE SHRIEK WITH LAUGHTER

0:43:30 > 0:43:32Thomas?

0:43:34 > 0:43:36Stay friends with him.

0:43:36 > 0:43:41Whatever may be done by smiling, you may rely on me to do.

0:43:43 > 0:43:44Alice!

0:43:45 > 0:43:46Alice!

0:43:48 > 0:43:49Set your mind at rest.

0:43:49 > 0:43:53This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.

0:43:53 > 0:43:55DOOR OPENS

0:44:02 > 0:44:05Good evening, sir. Lady Alice.

0:44:06 > 0:44:08Will wants to talk to you, Father.

0:44:08 > 0:44:12I told him it wouldn't be convenient!

0:44:12 > 0:44:16Quite right. You're free with my daughter's hand, Roper.

0:44:17 > 0:44:20Yes. It is of that I wish to speak.

0:44:20 > 0:44:25Sir, you have had a disagreement with His Majesty.

0:44:23 > 0:44:25Have I?

0:44:25 > 0:44:29So Meg tells me. I offer my congratulations.

0:44:29 > 0:44:33If true, is it a matter for congratulation?

0:44:31 > 0:44:33Yes!

0:44:36 > 0:44:40Sir, when last I asked you for your daughter's hand...

0:44:40 > 0:44:44..you objected to my unorthodox opinions.

0:44:44 > 0:44:45I did.

0:44:45 > 0:44:48Since then my views have somewhat modified.

0:44:52 > 0:44:54That's good hearing, Will.

0:44:54 > 0:44:59But I modify nothing concerning the corruption in the church!

0:44:59 > 0:45:00Good.

0:45:00 > 0:45:04But an attack on the church herself, no! An attack on God!

0:45:04 > 0:45:10- Roper!- The devil's work!

0:45:06 > 0:45:10The devil's ministers!

0:45:07 > 0:45:09Will, remember my office!

0:45:09 > 0:45:15If you stand on your office

0:45:11 > 0:45:15I don't, but there are things I may not hear.

0:45:15 > 0:45:16Sir Thomas?

0:45:18 > 0:45:20Richard!

0:45:20 > 0:45:22I fell.

0:45:23 > 0:45:27Lady Alice.

0:45:25 > 0:45:27- Lady Margaret.- Good evening.

0:45:27 > 0:45:33You know William Roper the younger?

0:45:29 > 0:45:33By reputation, of course!

0:45:31 > 0:45:33- Good evening, Master...?- Rich.

0:45:33 > 0:45:34Ah.

0:45:35 > 0:45:36Oh!

0:45:39 > 0:45:43You've heard of me?

0:45:41 > 0:45:43Yes.

0:45:43 > 0:45:47In what connection? I don't know what you can have heard.

0:45:52 > 0:45:58I sense that I am not welcome here!

0:45:54 > 0:45:57Have you done something to make you not welcome?

0:45:57 > 0:46:02Cromwell is asking about you, continually, you and your opinions!

0:46:02 > 0:46:04Of whom?

0:46:04 > 0:46:07Of him, for one, that's one of his sources!

0:46:08 > 0:46:11Of course. That's one of my servants.

0:46:11 > 0:46:14Alright, Matthew.

0:46:19 > 0:46:22You look at me as though I were an enemy.

0:46:23 > 0:46:25Why, Richard, you're shaking.

0:46:27 > 0:46:31Help me.

0:46:29 > 0:46:31How?

0:46:31 > 0:46:34Employ me.

0:46:32 > 0:46:34No.

0:46:34 > 0:46:37Employ me!

0:46:35 > 0:46:37No.

0:46:50 > 0:46:52I would be faithful.

0:46:53 > 0:47:00Richard, you couldn't answer for yourself even so far as tonight.

0:47:11 > 0:47:15Arrest him!

0:47:13 > 0:47:15For what?!

0:47:14 > 0:47:15He's dangerous!

0:47:15 > 0:47:21- A spy!- Father, that man is bad!

0:47:17 > 0:47:21- There's no law against it.- God's law

0:47:19 > 0:47:21- God must arrest him.- He's gone!

0:47:21 > 0:47:27And go he should, if he were the devil, till he broke the law!

0:47:24 > 0:47:27You give the devil benefit of law!

0:47:27 > 0:47:31What would you do? Cut through the law to get after the devil?

0:47:31 > 0:47:34Yes! I'd cut down every law in England for that!

0:47:34 > 0:47:37Oh? And when the last law was down and the devil turned on you?

0:47:37 > 0:47:40Where would you hide, the laws being flat?

0:47:40 > 0:47:45This country is planted thick with laws, man's laws, not God's.

0:47:45 > 0:47:48If you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it!...

0:47:48 > 0:47:52..do you think you could stand up in the wind that would blow?!

0:47:52 > 0:47:57Yes. I'd give the devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake!

0:48:02 > 0:48:04BIRD SQUAWKS

0:48:25 > 0:48:28DOOR OPENS/DRUNKEN VOICES

0:48:34 > 0:48:37- Master Rich?- Yes.

0:48:35 > 0:48:37In there, sir.

0:48:40 > 0:48:42LOW HUM OF MEN'S VOICES

0:48:43 > 0:48:45Rich? Come in, come in.

0:48:47 > 0:48:51It's taken you long enough to get here.

0:48:51 > 0:48:52Have I kept you waiting?

0:48:53 > 0:48:55Months. (LAUGHS)

0:48:57 > 0:48:58Here.

0:48:58 > 0:49:00Thank you.

0:49:00 > 0:49:06Do you know the news?

0:49:02 > 0:49:06What news?

0:49:03 > 0:49:06Sir Thomas Paget is retiring.

0:49:07 > 0:49:09- And- I- succeed him.

0:49:10 > 0:49:15Secretary to the council?! You?!

0:49:13 > 0:49:15It is surprising, isn't it?

0:49:15 > 0:49:16Oh, no!

0:49:17 > 0:49:20I mean, one sees... it's logical.

0:49:21 > 0:49:22Sit down, Rich.

0:49:22 > 0:49:26No ceremony, no courtship. As His Majesty would say!

0:49:28 > 0:49:29Yes.

0:49:29 > 0:49:31You see how I trust you?

0:49:31 > 0:49:34Oh, I'd never repeat or report a thing like that.

0:49:34 > 0:49:38What kind of thing would you repeat or report?

0:49:39 > 0:49:45Well... Nothing said in friendship.

0:49:42 > 0:49:45Do you believe that?

0:49:44 > 0:49:45Yes.

0:49:45 > 0:49:47Seriously?

0:49:46 > 0:49:47Yes!

0:49:47 > 0:49:49Rich!

0:49:50 > 0:49:51Seriously!

0:49:56 > 0:49:59It... would depend what I was offered.

0:50:00 > 0:50:03Don't say it just to please me.

0:50:03 > 0:50:05It's true, it would depend what I was offered.

0:50:08 > 0:50:16Well, there is another post vacant.

0:50:10 > 0:50:16Collector of revenues for York.

0:50:13 > 0:50:16- Is it in your gift?- Effectively.

0:50:16 > 0:50:19What must I do for it?

0:50:20 > 0:50:25Rich... I know a man who wants to change his woman.

0:50:25 > 0:50:28A matter of small importance...

0:50:28 > 0:50:32..but in this case it's our liege lord Henry, the eighth of that name.

0:50:32 > 0:50:37A quaint way of saying that if he wants to change his woman, he will.

0:50:37 > 0:50:39And our job as administrators...

0:50:39 > 0:50:44..is to minimise the inconvenience this will cause.

0:50:44 > 0:50:45That's our only job, Rich!

0:50:45 > 0:50:48To minimise the inconvenience of things.

0:50:48 > 0:50:51A harmless occupation, you would say.

0:50:51 > 0:50:55But no. We administrators are not liked, Rich.

0:50:55 > 0:50:57We are not popular.

0:50:57 > 0:51:01I say WE on the assumption you accept the post at York.

0:51:05 > 0:51:06Yes.

0:51:07 > 0:51:09Yes.

0:51:12 > 0:51:20It's a bad sign when people are depressed by their own good fortune!

0:51:17 > 0:51:20- I'm not depressed!- You look it!

0:51:20 > 0:51:23I was lamenting. I've lost my innocence!

0:51:23 > 0:51:26A while ago. Have you only just noticed?

0:51:26 > 0:51:31Your friend, our present chancellor, now there's an innocent man.

0:51:31 > 0:51:34The odd thing is, he is.

0:51:34 > 0:51:36Yes, I say he is.

0:51:36 > 0:51:40But his innocence is tangled in this proposition...

0:51:40 > 0:51:43..that you can't change your woman without a divorce.

0:51:43 > 0:51:46And no divorce unless the Pope says so.

0:51:46 > 0:51:52And from this circumstance I foresee a measure of...

0:51:50 > 0:51:51Inconvenience?

0:51:51 > 0:51:53Just so.

0:51:53 > 0:51:56This goblet he gave you, how much was it worth?

0:51:58 > 0:52:01He gave you a silver goblet! What did you get for it?!

0:52:02 > 0:52:0350 shillings.

0:52:03 > 0:52:09It was a gift from a litigant, a woman.

0:52:06 > 0:52:09- Yes.- Which court? Chancery?

0:52:10 > 0:52:12Don't get drunk!

0:52:13 > 0:52:16Which court was the litigant's case?!

0:52:16 > 0:52:18The court of requests.

0:52:18 > 0:52:20Hmm.

0:52:21 > 0:52:24There. That wasn't too painful, was it?

0:52:25 > 0:52:27- No.- No.

0:52:27 > 0:52:30You'll find it easier, next time.

0:52:35 > 0:52:37BELL TOLLS

0:53:04 > 0:53:09My lord archbishop, my lords, reverend doctors of the church...

0:53:09 > 0:53:15The answer of our liege lord Henry to his trusty, well-beloved subjects

0:53:15 > 0:53:18..pontiffs in the Canterbury convocation.

0:53:20 > 0:53:26His Majesty acknowledges your humble admission of many great errors...

0:53:26 > 0:53:32..for which he accepts the manumission of £100,000 in token.

0:53:33 > 0:53:34But...

0:53:36 > 0:53:39..mindful for the wellbeing of the realm...

0:53:39 > 0:53:41..His Majesty requires you to renounce...

0:53:41 > 0:53:45..your pretended allegiance to the see of Rome...

0:53:45 > 0:53:49..and admit the statute passed through parliament...

0:53:49 > 0:53:52..acknowledging the King's title...

0:53:52 > 0:53:55..Supreme Head of the Church in England.

0:54:00 > 0:54:02Well, my lords? What's your answer?

0:54:04 > 0:54:07Yea or nay?

0:54:08 > 0:54:11His Majesty accepts your resignation sadly.

0:54:11 > 0:54:14He is mindful of your goodness and past loyalty.

0:54:14 > 0:54:19In matters concerning your welfare he will continue your good lord.

0:54:19 > 0:54:22You will convey my humble gratitude?

0:54:27 > 0:54:30Help me with this.

0:54:29 > 0:54:30Not I!

0:54:32 > 0:54:39Alice?

0:54:34 > 0:54:39No! Sun and moon, Master More, you are taken for a wise man!

0:54:39 > 0:54:43Is this wisdom, to betray your ability?!

0:54:43 > 0:54:46Abandon your family and forget your duty to your kin?!

0:54:46 > 0:54:48Shall I, sir?

0:54:49 > 0:54:53No. Thank you, son Roper.

0:54:53 > 0:54:55Margaret?

0:54:57 > 0:54:58Will you?

0:54:58 > 0:55:00Yes.

0:55:04 > 0:55:06If you want.

0:55:12 > 0:55:14There's my clever girl.

0:55:16 > 0:55:18Well done, sir!

0:55:18 > 0:55:22In my opinion, that thing's a degradation!

0:55:22 > 0:55:30- And as for the King's title- Don't!

0:55:25 > 0:55:30Will, silence! Remember you have a wife now, and may have children.

0:55:40 > 0:55:43Alright, Thomas, make me understand!

0:55:43 > 0:55:47Because I tell you, to me this looks like cowardice.

0:55:47 > 0:55:51I will. This isn't reformation, this is war against the church.

0:55:51 > 0:55:53Our King declares war on the Pope...

0:55:53 > 0:55:57..because the Pope will not say our Queen is not his wife.

0:55:57 > 0:55:58And is she?

0:56:00 > 0:56:02Is she?!

0:56:04 > 0:56:09Have I your word that what we say here is between us two?

0:56:07 > 0:56:09Oh, very well.

0:56:09 > 0:56:12If the King should command you repeat my words?

0:56:12 > 0:56:13I keep my word.

0:56:13 > 0:56:18Then what has become of your oath of obedience to the King?!

0:56:20 > 0:56:22You lay traps for me.

0:56:22 > 0:56:25No. I show you the times.

0:56:25 > 0:56:27Hmm. Alright.

0:56:27 > 0:56:32We are at war with the Pope. The Pope's a prince, isn't he?

0:56:32 > 0:56:36He is. And the descendant of St Peter, our only link with Christ.

0:56:36 > 0:56:38So you believe.

0:56:38 > 0:56:42You'll forfeit all, and the respect of your country, for a belief?

0:56:42 > 0:56:46What matters is that I believe it, or rather know.

0:56:46 > 0:56:49- Not that I believe it but that- I- believe it.

0:56:49 > 0:56:53I trust I make myself obscure?

0:56:52 > 0:56:53Perfectly.

0:56:55 > 0:56:59Why do you insult me with this lawyers' chatter?

0:56:59 > 0:57:02Because I am afraid.

0:57:02 > 0:57:03Man, you're ill!

0:57:06 > 0:57:09This isn't Spain, you know! This is England.

0:57:11 > 0:57:14LOW, INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

0:57:27 > 0:57:31My friends, you all know why I have called you here.

0:57:31 > 0:57:35I have today resigned my office.

0:57:38 > 0:57:41I am no longer a great man.

0:57:41 > 0:57:42CHUCKLING

0:57:42 > 0:57:45Sir, we want you to know we're all on your side.

0:57:45 > 0:57:48My side. What side is that?

0:57:48 > 0:57:51Well, sir, we all know what you think.

0:57:51 > 0:57:52None of you knows that.

0:57:52 > 0:57:57And if you guess it and babble it about, you do me no good service.

0:57:57 > 0:58:01Since I am no more a great man, I no longer need a great household.

0:58:01 > 0:58:03Nor can I afford one.

0:58:03 > 0:58:05You... will have to go.

0:58:05 > 0:58:09However, I still number great men among my friends...

0:58:09 > 0:58:12..and they still need great households.

0:58:12 > 0:58:17No-one will leave without another place.

0:58:15 > 0:58:17- We can't do that!- Yes, we can.

0:58:19 > 0:58:21Thank you.

0:58:22 > 0:58:23That is all.

0:58:34 > 0:58:36What about you, Matthew?

0:58:39 > 0:58:43Will you stay?

0:58:40 > 0:58:43Well, sir, that's according.

0:58:43 > 0:58:45There will be more work and less money.

0:58:45 > 0:58:51Then I don't see how I can, sir. After all, I've got my...

0:58:51 > 0:58:59Quite right, Matthew. Why should you? I shall miss you.

0:58:54 > 0:58:59Oh, no, sir, you see through me!

0:59:03 > 0:59:05I shall miss you.

0:59:15 > 0:59:18Damn me! Isn't that them all over?!

0:59:18 > 0:59:20Miss me! What's in me for him to miss?!

0:59:20 > 0:59:26"Matthew, will you take a cut in wages?" "No, sir." And that's it.

0:59:26 > 0:59:32So he's down on his luck. I'm sorry. I don't mind saying that. Bad luck.

0:59:32 > 0:59:35If I had good luck to spare, he could have some!

0:59:35 > 0:59:39I wish we could all have good luck. I wish rainwater was beer!

0:59:39 > 0:59:42I wish we had wings. But we don't!

0:59:51 > 0:59:54Well, there's an end of you.

0:59:54 > 0:59:59What will you do now, sit by the fire and make goslings in the ash?

0:59:59 > 1:00:04Not at all, Alice, I expect I'll write a bit.

1:00:05 > 1:00:06I'll write.

1:00:07 > 1:00:09I'll read, I'll think.

1:00:10 > 1:00:13I think I'll learn to fish.

1:00:13 > 1:00:18I'll play with my grandchildren when son Roper's done his duty.

1:00:19 > 1:00:24Alice, shall I teach you to read?

1:00:22 > 1:00:23No, by God!

1:00:23 > 1:00:29Poor silly man, do you think they'll leave you here to sit...?

1:00:29 > 1:00:32If we govern our tongues, they will.

1:00:33 > 1:00:34Look...

1:00:35 > 1:00:39I have a a word to say. I made no statement, I resigned, that's all.

1:00:39 > 1:00:44The King is made by parliament supreme head of the church.

1:00:45 > 1:00:49This church will first divorce him, then marry him to Lady Anne.

1:00:49 > 1:00:54But on any of these matters have you heard me make a statement?

1:00:53 > 1:00:54No.

1:00:54 > 1:01:01If I'm to lose my rank and fall to housekeeping, I need the reason.

1:00:58 > 1:01:01- So make a statement now.- No!

1:01:01 > 1:01:06Alice, it's a point of law. Accept that silence is my safety in law.

1:01:06 > 1:01:11And my silence must be absolute. It must extend to you.

1:01:10 > 1:01:11You don't trust me.

1:01:11 > 1:01:13Look...

1:01:13 > 1:01:19I am the lord chief justice, I am Cromwell, I am keeper of the Tower.

1:01:19 > 1:01:24I take your hand, I clamp it on the Bible, on the Blessed Cross.

1:01:24 > 1:01:28I say, "Woman, has your husband made a statement on these matters?"

1:01:28 > 1:01:32On peril of your soul, remember, what is your answer?

1:01:33 > 1:01:34No.

1:01:36 > 1:01:38And so it must remain.

1:01:46 > 1:01:49Have you opened your mind to Meg?

1:01:49 > 1:01:52Would I tell Meg what I won't tell you?

1:01:52 > 1:01:57Meg has your heart. I know that well enough.

1:02:08 > 1:02:12This is a dangerous matter, then, if you have not told Meg.

1:02:12 > 1:02:14I don't think so.

1:02:14 > 1:02:16No, no.

1:02:16 > 1:02:23If they find me silent, they'll want nothing better than to leave me so.

1:02:23 > 1:02:25You'll see.

1:02:46 > 1:02:51If he is silent, Master Secretary, why not leave him silent?!

1:02:51 > 1:02:54Your grace, not being a man of letters...

1:02:54 > 1:02:57..you perhaps don't realise the extent of his reputation.

1:02:57 > 1:03:00His silence is bellowing across Europe!

1:03:00 > 1:03:06He is claimed as the King's enemy.

1:03:02 > 1:03:06Crank he may be, traitor he is not!

1:03:04 > 1:03:06Exactly.

1:03:06 > 1:03:08With a little pressure...

1:03:08 > 1:03:12..with a little pressure he can be got to say so, that's all.

1:03:12 > 1:03:19A brief declaration of his loyalty.

1:03:14 > 1:03:19I say let sleeping dogs lie!

1:03:16 > 1:03:19The King does not agree with you.

1:03:23 > 1:03:28Well... what kind of pressure do you think you can bring to bear?

1:03:28 > 1:03:33I have evidence that Sir Thomas, as a judge, accepted bribes.

1:03:33 > 1:03:34What?!

1:03:34 > 1:03:38Dammit, he was the only judge since Cato who didn't!

1:03:38 > 1:03:44As chancellor his possessions totalled £100 and a gold chain!

1:03:45 > 1:03:47Richard.

1:03:47 > 1:03:50It is, as you imply, common practice.

1:03:50 > 1:03:53But a practice may be common and remain an offence.

1:03:53 > 1:03:56It could send a man to the Tower.

1:04:00 > 1:04:01Come here.

1:04:01 > 1:04:06This woman's name is Avril Machin. She comes from Leicester.

1:04:06 > 1:04:10- She had a case- A property case.

1:04:09 > 1:04:10Shut your mouth!

1:04:10 > 1:04:14A case in the court of requests in April, 1528.

1:04:14 > 1:04:19And got a wicked false judgement!

1:04:15 > 1:04:19An impeccably correct judgement from Sir Thomas.

1:04:19 > 1:04:20It was not!

1:04:20 > 1:04:23Tell the gentleman about the gift you gave the judge.

1:04:23 > 1:04:28I gave him a cup. A silver Italian cup I bought for 100 shillings.

1:04:28 > 1:04:34Did Sir Thomas accept this cup?

1:04:31 > 1:04:34Yes, sir, he did.

1:04:32 > 1:04:34We can corroborate that.

1:04:34 > 1:04:37You can go.

1:04:36 > 1:04:37- To my way- Go!

1:04:46 > 1:04:54Is that your witness?!

1:04:48 > 1:04:54No. By an odd coincidence, that cup later came to Master Rich here.

1:04:55 > 1:05:04How?

1:05:00 > 1:05:04He gave it to me, your grace.

1:05:01 > 1:05:04- Gave it you? Why?- A gift.

1:05:04 > 1:05:08- Oh, yes, yes. You were a...- friend, - weren't you?

1:05:08 > 1:05:13When did Thomas give you this thing?

1:05:11 > 1:05:13I... can't exactly remember.

1:05:15 > 1:05:20- Do you- remember - what you did with it?

1:05:18 > 1:05:20I sold it.

1:05:20 > 1:05:26- Where?- A shop.

1:05:22 > 1:05:26Do they still have it?

1:05:24 > 1:05:26No, they've lost all track of it.

1:05:26 > 1:05:28How convenient.

1:05:28 > 1:05:34(CHUCKLES) You doubt Master Rich's word, your grace?!

1:05:32 > 1:05:34It had occurred to me.

1:05:37 > 1:05:39This is the bill of sale.

1:05:49 > 1:05:52That cow put her case into court in April.

1:05:52 > 1:05:55This is dated May.

1:05:55 > 1:05:56In other words...

1:05:56 > 1:06:01..as soon as Thomas knew it was a bribe, he dropped it in the gutter.

1:06:04 > 1:06:07The facts will bear that interpretation, I suppose.

1:06:07 > 1:06:11(LAUGHS) This is a horse that won't run, Master Secretary!

1:06:11 > 1:06:16Just a trial gallop. We'll find something better.

1:06:14 > 1:06:16- I want no part.- You have no choice.

1:06:17 > 1:06:26What's that you say?!

1:06:20 > 1:06:26The King wishes you to be active in this matter of Sir Thomas.

1:06:26 > 1:06:30He's not told me!

1:06:27 > 1:06:30Indeed? He's told me.

1:06:32 > 1:06:39Look here, Cromwell... What's the purpose of all this?

1:06:37 > 1:06:39There you have me.

1:06:39 > 1:06:42It's... it's a matter of conscience, I think.

1:06:42 > 1:06:46The King wants Sir Thomas to bless his marriage.

1:06:46 > 1:06:50If he appeared at the wedding it would save us all a lot of trouble.

1:06:52 > 1:06:55Oh, he won't attend the wedding!

1:06:55 > 1:06:58If I were you I'd try and persuade him.

1:06:59 > 1:07:02I really would try, if I were you.

1:07:04 > 1:07:13Cromwell, are you threatening me?

1:07:07 > 1:07:13My dear Norfolk!

1:07:09 > 1:07:13This isn't Spain, this is England!

1:07:17 > 1:07:20BELLS PEAL JOYOUSLY

1:07:23 > 1:07:26BELLS RING OUT

1:07:33 > 1:07:35HUNDREDS OF BELLS PEAL

1:07:38 > 1:07:42Your majesty!

1:07:40 > 1:07:42PEOPLE CALL OUT AND CHEER

1:07:50 > 1:07:54COURTIERS LAUGH BAWDILY AND APPLAUD

1:07:55 > 1:07:58BUZZ OF JOLLY VOICES

1:08:10 > 1:08:18# Where are you going to, Rendel, my son?

1:08:20 > 1:08:30# Where are you going to, my handsome young one?

1:08:32 > 1:08:39# I'm going a-courting, Mother

1:08:41 > 1:08:48# I'm going a-courting, Mother

1:08:50 > 1:08:58# Make my bed softly, for I am sick...

1:09:03 > 1:09:06CONVIVIAL VOICES START UP AGAIN

1:09:23 > 1:09:24Thomas?

1:09:24 > 1:09:26Thomas!

1:09:26 > 1:09:27Thomas!

1:09:28 > 1:09:30THOMAS!

1:09:30 > 1:09:31Th-

1:09:41 > 1:09:43BELLS STILL RING

1:10:00 > 1:10:02KNOCKING

1:10:04 > 1:10:06MORE KNOCKING

1:10:18 > 1:10:20MAN AND WOMAN LAUGH

1:10:28 > 1:10:31Lady Margaret?

1:10:30 > 1:10:31Yes.

1:10:32 > 1:10:36We've been cutting reeds. We use them for fuel.

1:10:38 > 1:10:43I have a letter for your father, Lady Margaret. From Hampton Court.

1:10:46 > 1:10:48He's to answer certain charges...

1:10:48 > 1:10:51..before Secretary Cromwell.

1:10:52 > 1:10:55Good of you to come, Sir Thomas.

1:11:00 > 1:11:06Master Rich will make a record of our conversation.

1:11:04 > 1:11:06Good of you to tell me.

1:11:06 > 1:11:09I think you know one another.

1:11:08 > 1:11:09Yes, we're old friends!

1:11:09 > 1:11:12That's a nice gown you have, Richard.

1:11:17 > 1:11:22Sir Thomas, believe me... No, that's asking too much.

1:11:22 > 1:11:24But let me tell you all the same.

1:11:24 > 1:11:27You have no more sincere admirer than myself.

1:11:28 > 1:11:31No, not yet, Rich, not yet!

1:11:32 > 1:11:34LAUGHS

1:11:34 > 1:11:40If I might hear the charges.

1:11:36 > 1:11:40- Charges?- I hear there are charges.

1:11:40 > 1:11:43Some ambiguities to clarify. Hardly charges.

1:11:43 > 1:11:46Make a note, Master Rich, there are no charges.

1:11:46 > 1:11:50Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas!

1:11:54 > 1:11:59The King is not pleased with you.

1:11:57 > 1:11:59I am grieved.

1:11:59 > 1:12:05And yet even now, if you could bring yourself to agree with the church...

1:12:05 > 1:12:08..the universities, the lords and commons...

1:12:08 > 1:12:12..there is no honour His Majesty would deny you.

1:12:12 > 1:12:15- I am well acquainted with His Grace's- generosity.

1:12:17 > 1:12:18Very well.

1:12:20 > 1:12:24You have heard of the so-called holy maid of Kent...

1:12:24 > 1:12:28..executed for prophesying against the King?

1:12:28 > 1:12:33- I met her.- Yes, you did.

1:12:30 > 1:12:33Yet did not warn the King of her treason.

1:12:33 > 1:12:37How was that?

1:12:34 > 1:12:37She spoke no treason. Our talk was not political.

1:12:37 > 1:12:42She was notorious! Do you expect me to believe that?!

1:12:40 > 1:12:42Happily there were witnesses.

1:12:42 > 1:12:48- You wrote a letter to her.- Yes.

1:12:45 > 1:12:48I advised her to abstain from meddling in affairs of state.

1:12:48 > 1:12:52I have a copy of the letter, also witnessed.

1:12:53 > 1:12:59You have been cautious.

1:12:56 > 1:12:59I like to keep my affairs regular.

1:13:06 > 1:13:10In June of 1521, the King published a book.

1:13:10 > 1:13:12A theological work.

1:13:12 > 1:13:16It was called A Defence of the Seven Sacraments.

1:13:16 > 1:13:17Yes.

1:13:17 > 1:13:22For which he was named Defender of the Faith by His Holiness the Pope.

1:13:21 > 1:13:22The Bishop of Rome.

1:13:22 > 1:13:29Or do you insist on Pope?

1:13:25 > 1:13:29Bishop of Rome, if you like. It doesn't alter his authority.

1:13:29 > 1:13:31Thank you!

1:13:31 > 1:13:35You come to the point very readily. What is that authority?

1:13:35 > 1:13:39Concerning the church of England, what is this Bishop's authority?

1:13:40 > 1:13:46You will find it very ably set out and defended in the King's book.

1:13:46 > 1:13:50"The book published under the King's name" is more accurate!

1:13:50 > 1:13:54- You wrote this book!- I did not.

1:13:52 > 1:13:54I don't mean you held the pen!

1:13:54 > 1:13:59I answered some points of law the King put to me, as I was bound to.

1:13:59 > 1:14:05You deny instigating it!

1:14:01 > 1:14:05It was from first to last the King's own project.

1:14:05 > 1:14:06The King says not.

1:14:09 > 1:14:12The King knows the truth of it.

1:14:12 > 1:14:17And whatever he may have said, he will not give evidence on this.

1:14:18 > 1:14:20Why not?

1:14:20 > 1:14:25Because evidence is given on oath. And he will not perjure himself.

1:14:25 > 1:14:30If you don't know that, then you don't yet know him.

1:14:34 > 1:14:35Sir Thomas More!

1:14:35 > 1:14:42Have you anything to say to me on the King's marriage with Queen Anne?

1:14:39 > 1:14:42I understood I was not to be asked.

1:14:42 > 1:14:48Then you understood wrongly. These charges

1:14:45 > 1:14:48Terrors for children! Not for me!

1:14:53 > 1:14:58Then know that the King commands me to charge you in his name...

1:14:58 > 1:15:00..with great ingratitude.

1:15:00 > 1:15:02And to tell you there never was...

1:15:02 > 1:15:07..so villainous a servant nor so traitorous a subject as yourself!

1:15:08 > 1:15:10So...

1:15:11 > 1:15:14I am brought here at last.

1:15:14 > 1:15:16Brought?!

1:15:16 > 1:15:20You brought yourself to where you stand now!

1:15:21 > 1:15:23You may go.

1:15:29 > 1:15:30For the present.

1:15:35 > 1:15:37What will you do now?

1:15:39 > 1:15:42Whatever's necessary!

1:15:50 > 1:15:51Boat!

1:15:57 > 1:15:58Boat!

1:16:07 > 1:16:10Come, come, it's not as bad as all that!

1:16:15 > 1:16:17Howard!

1:16:23 > 1:16:28I can't get home. They won't bring me a boat!

1:16:26 > 1:16:28Do you blame them?

1:16:28 > 1:16:33Is it as bad as that?

1:16:30 > 1:16:33It's every bit as bad as that!

1:16:33 > 1:16:36Then it's good of you to be seen with me.

1:16:36 > 1:16:40I followed you.

1:16:38 > 1:16:40- Were- you- followed?

1:16:47 > 1:16:49STONE RATTLES

1:16:50 > 1:16:54Thomas, you are dangerous to know.

1:16:52 > 1:16:54- Then don't.- I do know you!

1:16:54 > 1:16:58I mean as a friend.

1:16:56 > 1:16:58I am your friend. I wish I wasn't!

1:16:58 > 1:17:04- What then?- Give in!- I can't give in.

1:17:01 > 1:17:04Our friendship's more beautiful than that.

1:17:04 > 1:17:09The one fixed point in the world is that you will not give in!

1:17:07 > 1:17:09It must be, for that's myself.

1:17:09 > 1:17:15Affection goes as deep in me as you. But only God is love right through.

1:17:15 > 1:17:18And that's my... self.

1:17:18 > 1:17:19And who are you?

1:17:21 > 1:17:24A lawyer, and a lawyer's son!

1:17:24 > 1:17:27We're supposed to be the proud ones! We've all given in!

1:17:27 > 1:17:31Why must you stand out?! Dammit, man, it's...

1:17:32 > 1:17:33..disproportionate!

1:17:35 > 1:17:37You break my heart.

1:17:37 > 1:17:40No-one is safe, Howard.

1:17:40 > 1:17:42And you have a son.

1:17:44 > 1:17:47We'll end our friendship now.

1:17:48 > 1:17:52- For friendship's sake?- Yes.

1:17:50 > 1:17:52Daft!

1:17:58 > 1:18:00Norfolk, you're a fool!

1:18:02 > 1:18:05You can't place a quarrel. You haven't the style.

1:18:05 > 1:18:06Hear me out.

1:18:06 > 1:18:11You and your class gave in because religion means nothing to you.

1:18:11 > 1:18:13That's a foolish saying!

1:18:14 > 1:18:20The nobility of England

1:18:16 > 1:18:20Would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

1:18:20 > 1:18:23Yet you'll labour like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

1:18:23 > 1:18:30An artificial quarrel's no quarrel.

1:18:26 > 1:18:30We've had a quarrel since we met. Our friendship was mere sloth.

1:18:30 > 1:18:33You can be cruel, but I've always known that!

1:18:33 > 1:18:36What do you value in bulldogs? Gripping, is it not?

1:18:36 > 1:18:38Yes!

1:18:38 > 1:18:41It's their nature. Why you breed them.

1:18:41 > 1:18:44It's so with me. I will not give in because I oppose it.

1:18:44 > 1:18:50- Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any of my appetites, but- I- do, I.

1:18:50 > 1:18:56Is there in here a sinew that serves no appetite but is just Norfolk?!

1:18:56 > 1:18:58There is? Give it some exercise!

1:18:58 > 1:19:03As you stand you'll go before your maker ill-conditioned!

1:19:01 > 1:19:03Thomas!

1:19:03 > 1:19:07He'll think somewhere back in your pedigree a bitch got over the wall!

1:19:07 > 1:19:09GROWLS

1:19:20 > 1:19:25..law passed in this very house on 3rd April last year...

1:19:25 > 1:19:30..it is a matter very fit for the commons to take in hand.

1:19:30 > 1:19:34For, in consequence of the decay of guilds...

1:19:34 > 1:19:41..the woollen cloth now coming out of Yorkshire, Lincoln and the like..

1:19:41 > 1:19:44..is notably... amiss.

1:19:45 > 1:19:48I will defer the rest of my matter till later.

1:19:54 > 1:20:00That the loyal commons will speedily enact this bill, I doubt not...

1:20:00 > 1:20:05..for it concerns the King's new title and his marriage...

1:20:05 > 1:20:08..both matters pleasing to a loyal subject.

1:20:08 > 1:20:09(ALL) Aye!

1:20:09 > 1:20:16But, my masters, there is among us a brood of discreet traitors!

1:20:16 > 1:20:19The which deceit the King can brook no longer!

1:20:19 > 1:20:25And we, his loyal huntsmen, must now drive these foxes from their covert!

1:20:25 > 1:20:27WIND HOWLS

1:20:52 > 1:20:53Father?!

1:20:53 > 1:20:54Margaret!

1:20:54 > 1:20:57I couldn't get a boat.

1:20:57 > 1:20:59What is it, Meg?

1:20:59 > 1:21:02There's a new act going through parliament.

1:21:02 > 1:21:03Oh?

1:21:03 > 1:21:08By this act they will administer an oath. About the marriage!

1:21:08 > 1:21:15On what compulsion is the oath?

1:21:11 > 1:21:15High treason.

1:21:13 > 1:21:14But the wording?

1:21:14 > 1:21:20Why?! We know what it will mean!

1:21:16 > 1:21:20It will mean what the words say. It may be possible to take it.

1:21:20 > 1:21:22Take it?!

1:21:22 > 1:21:26If it can be taken, you must take it.

1:21:23 > 1:21:26- No. No!- Listen, Meg!

1:21:26 > 1:21:30God made the angels to show Him splendour.

1:21:30 > 1:21:35He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity.

1:21:35 > 1:21:39But man He made to serve Him wittily in the tangle of his mind.

1:21:39 > 1:21:44If He suffers us to come to such a case that there is no escaping...

1:21:44 > 1:21:46..then we may stand as best we can.

1:21:46 > 1:21:51Then we can clamour like champions, if we have the spittle for it.

1:21:51 > 1:21:55But it's God's part, not our own, to bring ourselves to such a pass.

1:21:55 > 1:21:58Our natural business lies in escaping.

1:22:00 > 1:22:02If I can take this oath, I will.

1:22:06 > 1:22:09I would for my sake you could take the oath.

1:22:09 > 1:22:12I never took a man into the Tower less willingly.

1:22:12 > 1:22:14Thank you, Master Governor.

1:22:16 > 1:22:17Thank you!

1:22:19 > 1:22:21Sir Thomas.

1:22:28 > 1:22:30BOLTS ARE SHOT

1:22:30 > 1:22:32KEYS CLINK

1:22:54 > 1:22:56DOG BARKS, CHILDREN SQUEAL

1:23:39 > 1:23:41KEYS JINGLE

1:23:44 > 1:23:46BOLTS ARE SHOT BACK

1:23:50 > 1:23:52Sir Thomas.

1:23:55 > 1:23:56Sir Thomas!

1:23:58 > 1:24:00Sir Thomas!

1:24:15 > 1:24:18Oh, this is iniquitous!

1:24:21 > 1:24:24Where to this time?

1:24:23 > 1:24:24Richmond Palace.

1:24:29 > 1:24:31MUSIC AND LAUGHTER

1:24:34 > 1:24:36MUSIC RINGS OUT

1:24:58 > 1:25:00LIVELY MUSIC STILL AUDIBLE

1:25:04 > 1:25:06DOOR CLOSES

1:25:18 > 1:25:20Sit down.

1:25:27 > 1:25:31The seventh commission to inquire into the case of Sir Thomas More...

1:25:31 > 1:25:34..appointed by His Majesty's council.

1:25:34 > 1:25:37(WEARILY) Anything to say?

1:25:36 > 1:25:37No.

1:25:38 > 1:25:45- Seen this before?!- Many times.

1:25:41 > 1:25:45It is the act of succession. These are those who have sworn to it.

1:25:45 > 1:25:50I have seen it before.

1:25:47 > 1:25:50Will you swear to it?!

1:25:48 > 1:25:50No.

1:25:50 > 1:25:52Thomas, we must know

1:25:55 > 1:26:00We must know if you recognise the offspring of Queen Anne...

1:26:00 > 1:26:02..as heirs to the throne.

1:26:02 > 1:26:08The King in parliament tells me so. Of course I recognise them.

1:26:06 > 1:26:07- You'll swear?- Yes.

1:26:07 > 1:26:13Then why won't he swear to the act?!

1:26:10 > 1:26:13Because there is more than that in the act!

1:26:13 > 1:26:14Just so.

1:26:14 > 1:26:17Sir Thomas, as it says in the preamble...

1:26:17 > 1:26:22..the King's former marriage was unlawful, to his brother's widow...

1:26:22 > 1:26:25..the "Pope" having no authority to sanction it.

1:26:25 > 1:26:27Is that what you deny?

1:26:32 > 1:26:34Is that what you dispute?

1:26:40 > 1:26:44Is that what you are not sure of?

1:26:48 > 1:26:49(GRUNTS)

1:26:49 > 1:26:54You insult His Majesty, and council in the person of the lord archbishop

1:26:54 > 1:26:59I insult no-one. I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why not.

1:26:59 > 1:27:05Your reasons must be treasonable!

1:27:01 > 1:27:05Not must be, may be.

1:27:03 > 1:27:05It's a fair assumption!

1:27:05 > 1:27:08The law requires more. It requires a fact.

1:27:08 > 1:27:12Ah. Well, of course I cannot judge your legal standing.

1:27:12 > 1:27:15But until I know the ground of your objection...

1:27:15 > 1:27:19..I can only guess your spiritual standing too.

1:27:19 > 1:27:22Then it should be easy to guess my objections.

1:27:22 > 1:27:27Then you do have objection to the act!

1:27:24 > 1:27:27We know that, Cromwell!

1:27:27 > 1:27:29You don't. You suppose I have objections.

1:27:29 > 1:27:34You know I will not swear. For which you cannot lawfully harm me more.

1:27:34 > 1:27:38But if you were right in supposing me to have objections...

1:27:38 > 1:27:41..and right again in supposing them treasonable...

1:27:41 > 1:27:45..the law would let you cut my head off.

1:27:45 > 1:27:48Oh. Yes.

1:27:48 > 1:27:50Well done, Sir Thomas.

1:27:50 > 1:27:54I have been trying to make that clear to his grace for some time.

1:27:54 > 1:27:56Oh, confound all this!

1:27:56 > 1:27:59I'm no scholar. I don't know if the marriage was lawful!

1:27:59 > 1:28:01But dammit, look at these names!

1:28:01 > 1:28:05Why don't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship?!

1:28:05 > 1:28:10And when we die and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience...

1:28:10 > 1:28:12..and I am sent to hell for not doing mine...

1:28:12 > 1:28:15..will you come with me, for fellowship?

1:28:15 > 1:28:19So those of us whose names are there are damned, Sir Thomas?

1:28:19 > 1:28:23I have no window into a man's conscience. I condemn no-one.

1:28:23 > 1:28:26- The matter is capable of question? - Yes.

1:28:26 > 1:28:29That you owe obedience to your King is not.

1:28:29 > 1:28:32Weigh a doubt against a certainty and sign.

1:28:35 > 1:28:40Some men think the earth is round. Others think it flat.

1:28:40 > 1:28:43It is a matter capable of question.

1:28:43 > 1:28:47But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round?

1:28:47 > 1:28:51If it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

1:28:51 > 1:28:54No. I will not sign.

1:28:54 > 1:28:58You have more regard for your own doubt than the King's command!

1:28:58 > 1:29:02- I have no doubt.- Of what?

1:29:00 > 1:29:02That I will not take this oath.

1:29:02 > 1:29:06But why I will not you will not trick out of me.

1:29:06 > 1:29:10I might get it out of you in other ways!

1:29:10 > 1:29:13You threaten like a dockside bully.

1:29:13 > 1:29:19How should I threaten?

1:29:15 > 1:29:19Like a minister of state with justice.

1:29:19 > 1:29:24Justice is what you're threatened with!

1:29:22 > 1:29:24Then I am not threatened.

1:29:24 > 1:29:26THEY SIGH

1:29:29 > 1:29:32Oh, gentlemen, can't I go to bed?

1:29:32 > 1:29:38Aye, the prisoner may retire, as he requests. Unless...

1:29:36 > 1:29:38I see no purpose in prolonging this.

1:29:41 > 1:29:42Then...

1:29:42 > 1:29:45..goodnight, Thomas.

1:29:49 > 1:29:58May I have one or two more books?

1:29:52 > 1:29:58- Oh, you have books?- Yes.

1:29:55 > 1:29:58I didn't know. You shouldn't have.

1:30:05 > 1:30:08May I see my family?

1:30:07 > 1:30:08No.

1:30:15 > 1:30:18Captain!

1:30:16 > 1:30:18Master Secretary.

1:30:18 > 1:30:25Have you ever heard the prisoner speak of the King's divorce?

1:30:23 > 1:30:25Not a word.

1:30:25 > 1:30:29If he does, you will repeat it to me.

1:30:28 > 1:30:29Of course.

1:30:29 > 1:30:32MUSIC AND LAUGHTER OUTSIDE

1:30:33 > 1:30:35Rich.

1:30:35 > 1:30:36Sir?

1:30:36 > 1:30:39Tomorrow, remove the prisoner's books.

1:30:39 > 1:30:45Is that necessary?!

1:30:41 > 1:30:45The King is becoming impatient.

1:30:44 > 1:30:45- With you!- With all of us.

1:30:45 > 1:30:48The King's impatience will embrace a duke or two.

1:30:57 > 1:31:01Master Secretary?

1:30:59 > 1:31:01Well?

1:31:01 > 1:31:03Sir Redvers Llewelyn has retired.

1:31:03 > 1:31:08The attorney general for Wales. His post is vacant.

1:31:08 > 1:31:11You said that I might approach you.

1:31:12 > 1:31:15Oh, not now, Rich!

1:31:17 > 1:31:19He must submit. He must!

1:31:20 > 1:31:22Rack him.

1:31:26 > 1:31:29No. The King's conscience will not permit it.

1:31:29 > 1:31:32We have to find some other way.

1:31:35 > 1:31:37BOLTS ARE DRAWN BACK

1:31:39 > 1:31:41Sir Thomas!

1:31:44 > 1:31:45Father!

1:31:45 > 1:31:46Margaret?!

1:31:46 > 1:31:48Father!

1:31:48 > 1:31:50Meg!

1:31:50 > 1:31:55Meg! For God's sake, they haven't put you in here?!

1:31:53 > 1:31:55- A visit!- A brief one, Sir Thomas.

1:31:55 > 1:31:56SOBS

1:31:56 > 1:32:00Good morning, husband.

1:31:58 > 1:32:00Good morning!

1:32:01 > 1:32:02Good morning!

1:32:02 > 1:32:04Good morning, Will.

1:32:05 > 1:32:07DOOR IS LOCKED

1:32:10 > 1:32:16This is a hellish place!

1:32:12 > 1:32:16Except it's keeping me from you, my dears, it isn't so bad.

1:32:16 > 1:32:20It's much like any place.

1:32:17 > 1:32:20- It drips.- Yes, the river.

1:32:31 > 1:32:33Well, what is it?

1:32:34 > 1:32:36Father, come out.

1:32:36 > 1:32:38Swear to the act and come out!

1:32:41 > 1:32:43Is this why they let you come?

1:32:42 > 1:32:43Yes.

1:32:44 > 1:32:46Oh.

1:32:46 > 1:32:48Meg's under oath to persuade you.

1:32:49 > 1:32:52That was silly, Meg!

1:33:00 > 1:33:02How did you come to do that?

1:33:03 > 1:33:04Father...

1:33:04 > 1:33:09God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth.

1:33:09 > 1:33:15- Or so you have always told me.- Yes.

1:33:12 > 1:33:15Say the words and in your heart think otherwise!

1:33:15 > 1:33:17What is an oath but words we say to God?

1:33:24 > 1:33:26Listen, Meg...

1:33:26 > 1:33:30When a man takes an oath he's holding his own self in his hands.

1:33:30 > 1:33:31Like water.

1:33:31 > 1:33:36If he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again.

1:33:37 > 1:33:39Some men aren't capable of this.

1:33:39 > 1:33:42I'd be loath to think your father one of them.

1:33:45 > 1:33:48I have another argument.

1:33:47 > 1:33:48Oh, Meg!

1:33:48 > 1:33:52In any state that was half good, you would be raised up high, not here.

1:33:52 > 1:33:54For what you've done already.

1:33:54 > 1:33:56Alright.

1:33:56 > 1:33:59It's not your fault the state's three-quarters bad.

1:33:59 > 1:34:03If you elect to suffer for it, you elect yourself a hero.

1:34:03 > 1:34:04Very neat. But see.

1:34:04 > 1:34:09If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable...

1:34:09 > 1:34:11..common sense would make us saintly.

1:34:11 > 1:34:15But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity...

1:34:15 > 1:34:20.. profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought...

1:34:20 > 1:34:26..we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

1:34:29 > 1:34:34But in reason, haven't you done as much as God can reasonably want?!

1:34:37 > 1:34:39SOBS VIOLENTLY

1:34:39 > 1:34:43Well, finally it isn't a matter of reason.

1:34:43 > 1:34:45Finally it is a matter of love.

1:34:48 > 1:34:53You are content to be shut up here when you might be at home with us?!

1:34:53 > 1:34:58Content?! If they'd open a crack I'd be through it and back to Chelsea!

1:35:02 > 1:35:06I haven't yet told you what the house is like without you.

1:35:06 > 1:35:07Don't, Meg!

1:35:07 > 1:35:10- What we do in the evenings.- Meg!

1:35:10 > 1:35:13We don't read because we've no candles.

1:35:13 > 1:35:16We don't talk because we're worrying about you!

1:35:16 > 1:35:20The King is more merciful than you no rack!

1:35:19 > 1:35:20Two minutes, sir.

1:35:20 > 1:35:26I thought you'd like to know. What?!

1:35:22 > 1:35:26- Jailor!- Sorry, sir. Two minutes.

1:35:27 > 1:35:28Listen!

1:35:28 > 1:35:35All of you must leave the country!

1:35:31 > 1:35:35And leave you here?!

1:35:32 > 1:35:35They won't let me see you again.

1:35:35 > 1:35:39Go on the same day, but different boats from different ports.

1:35:39 > 1:35:41After the trial, then.

1:35:41 > 1:35:44There'll be no trial. They have no case.

1:35:45 > 1:35:49Do this for me, I beseech you. Will?

1:35:48 > 1:35:49Yes.

1:35:49 > 1:35:50Margaret?

1:35:51 > 1:35:52Alice?

1:35:57 > 1:36:01Alice, I command you!

1:36:00 > 1:36:01Right.

1:36:05 > 1:36:06Oh!

1:36:08 > 1:36:10This is splendid.

1:36:10 > 1:36:14I know who packed this.

1:36:12 > 1:36:14I did.

1:36:13 > 1:36:14Yes!

1:36:17 > 1:36:19You still make a superlative custard, Alice.

1:36:19 > 1:36:20Do I?

1:36:22 > 1:36:25It's a nice dress you have on.

1:36:26 > 1:36:28Nice colour, anyway.

1:36:28 > 1:36:30My God, you think little of me!

1:36:30 > 1:36:32I know I'm a fool...

1:36:32 > 1:36:35..but I'm not such a fool as here...

1:36:35 > 1:36:38..to relish compliments on my custards!

1:36:38 > 1:36:39I am well rebuked.

1:36:40 > 1:36:42- Alice- No!

1:36:45 > 1:36:50I'm sick with fear when I think of the worst they may do to me.

1:36:50 > 1:36:56But worse than that would be to go with you not understanding why.

1:36:55 > 1:36:56I don't.

1:36:56 > 1:37:03If you say you understand, I think I might make a good death if I must.

1:37:01 > 1:37:03Your death's no good to me.

1:37:03 > 1:37:06You must tell me you understand!

1:37:05 > 1:37:06I don't!

1:37:06 > 1:37:12I don't believe this had to happen!

1:37:08 > 1:37:12If you say that, how can I face it?!

1:37:11 > 1:37:12It's the truth!

1:37:12 > 1:37:16Ohh! You're an honest woman!

1:37:14 > 1:37:16Much good may it do me!

1:37:16 > 1:37:21I tell you what I'm afraid of. That when you've gone I shall hate you!

1:37:24 > 1:37:27Well... you mustn't, Alice.

1:37:28 > 1:37:31You... you mustn't.

1:37:32 > 1:37:33Mustn't...

1:37:36 > 1:37:41As for understanding, I understand you're the best man I ever met!

1:37:41 > 1:37:44And if you go, well, God knows why, I suppose!

1:37:44 > 1:37:48Though as God's my witness He's kept deadly quiet about it!

1:37:48 > 1:37:55IF ANYONE WANTS MY OPINION OF KING AND COUNCIL, LET HIM ASK FOR IT!

1:37:55 > 1:37:56SOBS

1:37:58 > 1:38:02CHUCKLES Why, it's a lion I married!

1:38:02 > 1:38:04A lion, a lion!

1:38:10 > 1:38:12Oh, this is good.

1:38:14 > 1:38:15This is very good...

1:38:15 > 1:38:17Sorry, Sir Thomas. >

1:38:18 > 1:38:20For pity's sake!

1:38:20 > 1:38:23Time's up, sir.

1:38:21 > 1:38:23- One minute!- I daren't!

1:38:23 > 1:38:24Come along, miss.

1:38:24 > 1:38:27For heaven's sake!

1:38:26 > 1:38:27Don't do that, sir.

1:38:28 > 1:38:31Now, madam, don't make trouble.

1:38:34 > 1:38:37Come along, please, Lady Alice! >

1:38:40 > 1:38:42Take your muddy paws off me!

1:38:42 > 1:38:48Filthy, stinking, gutter-fed turnkey! You'll suffer for this!

1:38:48 > 1:38:49SOBS VIOLENTLY

1:38:49 > 1:38:50Alice!

1:38:50 > 1:38:51Goodbye.

1:39:06 > 1:39:09You must understand my position, sir.

1:39:09 > 1:39:12I'm a plain man. I just want to keep out of trouble.

1:39:15 > 1:39:17SOLEMN FANFARE

1:39:20 > 1:39:26Dear Lord Jesus, my sweet Saviour, clear my wits.

1:39:26 > 1:39:29Dear Lady, Blessed Mother of God...

1:39:29 > 1:39:34..comfort my wife and daughter and forgive me for them.

1:39:58 > 1:40:00LOUD BUZZ OF VOICES

1:40:12 > 1:40:14(VOICES FALL SILENT)

1:40:23 > 1:40:25SOMEONE STIFLES A COUGH

1:40:36 > 1:40:37Sir Thomas More.

1:40:37 > 1:40:41Though you have heinously offended the King's Majesty...

1:40:41 > 1:40:46we hope even now you will forethink and repent of obstinate opinion.

1:40:46 > 1:40:49You may still taste his gracious pardon.

1:40:49 > 1:40:51(WEAKLY) My lords, I thank you.

1:40:51 > 1:40:57As for what you may charge me with, I fear from my present weakness...

1:40:57 > 1:41:03..that neither my wit nor my memory will serve to make sufficient answer

1:41:04 > 1:41:08I should be glad to sit down.

1:41:07 > 1:41:08A chair for the prisoner.

1:41:10 > 1:41:12CROWD MURMUR SOFTLY

1:41:20 > 1:41:27Master Secretary Cromwell, have you the charge?

1:41:25 > 1:41:27- I have, my lord.- Then read it.

1:41:30 > 1:41:35That you did wilfully and maliciously deny and deprive...

1:41:35 > 1:41:38..our liege lord Henry of his undoubted, certain title...

1:41:38 > 1:41:41..supreme head of the church in England.

1:41:43 > 1:41:47But I have never denied this title!

1:41:45 > 1:41:47CROWD SCOFF

1:41:47 > 1:41:54At Westminster, Lambeth and Richmond you stubbornly refused the oath.

1:41:54 > 1:41:57Was this no denial?

1:41:55 > 1:41:57No. This was silence.

1:41:57 > 1:42:01And for my silence I am punished with imprisonment.

1:42:01 > 1:42:06Why have I been called again?

1:42:03 > 1:42:06On the charge of high treason, Sir Thomas.

1:42:06 > 1:42:09For which the punishment is not imprisonment.

1:42:09 > 1:42:11Death.

1:42:11 > 1:42:14Comes for us all, my lords.

1:42:14 > 1:42:17Yes, even for kings he comes.

1:42:17 > 1:42:20The death of kings is not in question.

1:42:20 > 1:42:23Nor mine, I trust, until I am proven guilty.

1:42:23 > 1:42:26Your life lies in your own hands, as it always has!

1:42:26 > 1:42:30Is that so, my lord? Then I'll keep a good grip on it.

1:42:30 > 1:42:32LAUGHTER

1:42:35 > 1:42:37LAUGHTER CONTINUES

1:42:37 > 1:42:41So, Sir Thomas... you stand on your silence?

1:42:41 > 1:42:42I do.

1:42:42 > 1:42:48But, gentlemen of the jury, there are many kinds of silence.

1:42:48 > 1:42:52Consider first the silence of a man when he is dead.

1:42:52 > 1:42:55Suppose we go into the room where he is laid out.

1:42:55 > 1:42:57We listen. What do we hear?

1:42:57 > 1:42:59Silence.

1:42:59 > 1:43:03What does it betoken, this silence?

1:43:03 > 1:43:04Nothing.

1:43:04 > 1:43:06This is silence pure and simple.

1:43:06 > 1:43:08Let us take another case.

1:43:08 > 1:43:13Suppose I were to take a dagger and make to kill the prisoner with it!

1:43:13 > 1:43:17And my lordships, instead of crying out, maintained their silence!

1:43:17 > 1:43:19That would betoken.

1:43:19 > 1:43:23It would betoken a willingness that I should do it.

1:43:23 > 1:43:26Under law, they would be guilty with me.

1:43:26 > 1:43:31So, silence can, according to the circumstances, speak.

1:43:31 > 1:43:37Let us consider the circumstances of the prisoner's silence.

1:43:37 > 1:43:40The oath was put to loyal subjects...

1:43:40 > 1:43:44..and all declared his grace's title to be just and good.

1:43:44 > 1:43:47But when it came to the prisoner, he refused!

1:43:48 > 1:43:50He calls this silence.

1:43:51 > 1:43:58Yet is there a man in this court, is there a man in this country...

1:43:58 > 1:44:02..who does not know Sir Thomas More's opinion of this title?!

1:44:02 > 1:44:04ALL CRY OUT "NO"

1:44:04 > 1:44:06Yet how can this be?

1:44:06 > 1:44:10Because this silence betokened...

1:44:10 > 1:44:15..nay, this silence was, not silence, but most eloquent denial!

1:44:15 > 1:44:17UPROAR

1:44:17 > 1:44:19Not so.

1:44:19 > 1:44:22Not so, Master Secretary.

1:44:22 > 1:44:25The maxim is "qui tacet consentire".

1:44:25 > 1:44:28The maxim of the law is "silence gives consent".

1:44:28 > 1:44:31If you wish to construe what my silence betokened...

1:44:31 > 1:44:35..you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.

1:44:35 > 1:44:38Is that in fact what the world construes?!

1:44:38 > 1:44:42Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?!

1:44:42 > 1:44:46The world must construe according to its wits.

1:44:46 > 1:44:49This court must construe according to the law.

1:44:49 > 1:44:52LAUGHTER

1:44:58 > 1:45:01My lords, I wish to call Sir Richard Rich.

1:45:02 > 1:45:06Richard Rich, come into court! Richard Rich!

1:45:25 > 1:45:28I solemnly swear the evidence I shall give...

1:45:28 > 1:45:33..shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

1:45:33 > 1:45:36- So help me God, sir.- So help me God.

1:45:37 > 1:45:44Now, Rich. On the 12th May you were at the Tower?

1:45:43 > 1:45:44I was.

1:45:44 > 1:45:49For what purpose?

1:45:45 > 1:45:49To take the prisoner's books.

1:45:47 > 1:45:49- Did you talk with the prisoner?- Yes.

1:45:49 > 1:45:53Of the King's supremacy of the church?

1:45:52 > 1:45:53Yes.

1:45:53 > 1:45:55What did you say?

1:45:55 > 1:46:01I said, "Suppose there were an act of parliament that I were King."

1:46:01 > 1:46:04"Would not you, Master More, take me for King?"

1:46:04 > 1:46:06"That I would," he said.

1:46:09 > 1:46:11"For then you would be King."

1:46:13 > 1:46:15Yes?!

1:46:15 > 1:46:19Then he said, "But I will put you a higher case."

1:46:19 > 1:46:25"How if there were an act to say that God should not be God?"

1:46:25 > 1:46:30- True. Then you said - Silence!

1:46:28 > 1:46:30Continue.

1:46:32 > 1:46:36Then I said, "I will put you a middle case."

1:46:36 > 1:46:39"Parliament has made our King head of the church."

1:46:39 > 1:46:41"Why will you not accept him?"

1:46:44 > 1:46:45Well?!

1:46:47 > 1:46:49Then he said...

1:46:49 > 1:46:53..parliament had not the power to do it.

1:46:54 > 1:46:56Repeat the prisoner's words.

1:46:56 > 1:47:02He said... parliament had not the competence.

1:47:02 > 1:47:04CROWD MURMUR

1:47:04 > 1:47:06Or words to that effect.

1:47:06 > 1:47:10He denied the title!

1:47:09 > 1:47:10He did.

1:47:18 > 1:47:23In good faith, Rich, I am sorrier for your perjury than my peril.

1:47:23 > 1:47:26Do you deny this?

1:47:24 > 1:47:26Yes!

1:47:26 > 1:47:31You know that if I were a man who heeded not oaths, I need not be here

1:47:31 > 1:47:35Now I will take an oath!

1:47:35 > 1:47:39If what Master Rich has said is true...

1:47:39 > 1:47:43..I pray I may never see God in the face!

1:47:43 > 1:47:48Which I would not say were it otherwise for anything on earth!

1:47:48 > 1:47:49Not evidence!

1:47:49 > 1:47:55Is it probable... is it probable after so long a silence on this...

1:47:55 > 1:47:58..the very point so urgently sought of me...

1:47:58 > 1:48:02..I should open my mind to such a man as that?!

1:48:03 > 1:48:08Sir Richard, do you wish to modify your testimony?

1:48:07 > 1:48:08No, my lord.

1:48:08 > 1:48:12Is there anything you wish to take away from it?

1:48:11 > 1:48:12No, my lord.

1:48:12 > 1:48:16Have you anything to add?

1:48:14 > 1:48:16No, my lord.

1:48:16 > 1:48:20Have you, Sir Thomas?

1:48:18 > 1:48:20To what purpose?

1:48:23 > 1:48:25I am a dead man.

1:48:29 > 1:48:31You have your will of me.

1:48:31 > 1:48:34Then the witness may withdraw.

1:48:39 > 1:48:44There is one question I would like to ask the witness.

1:48:46 > 1:48:50That's a chain of office you're wearing. May I see it?

1:48:57 > 1:49:03The red dragon. What's this?

1:49:00 > 1:49:03Sir Richard is appointed attorney general for Wales.

1:49:03 > 1:49:05For Wales.

1:49:05 > 1:49:11Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world.

1:49:13 > 1:49:14But for Wales...

1:49:22 > 1:49:24My lords, I have done.

1:49:24 > 1:49:28The jury will retire and consider the evidence.

1:49:29 > 1:49:34Considering the evidence, it should not be necessary for them to retire.

1:49:36 > 1:49:38Is it necessary?

1:49:44 > 1:49:47Then is the prisoner guilty or not guilty?

1:49:51 > 1:49:53Guilty, my lord.

1:50:02 > 1:50:10Sir Thomas More, you have been found guilty of high treason.

1:50:07 > 1:50:10- The sentence of the court- My lord.

1:50:10 > 1:50:12When I practised the law...

1:50:12 > 1:50:17..the manner was to ask the prisoner before pronouncing sentence...

1:50:17 > 1:50:19..if he had anything to say.

1:50:19 > 1:50:23Have you anything to say?

1:50:21 > 1:50:23Yes.

1:50:31 > 1:50:38Since the court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how...

1:50:38 > 1:50:48..I will discharge my mind on the indictment and the King's title.

1:50:49 > 1:50:55The indictment is grounded in an act of parliament...

1:50:55 > 1:51:02...which is repugnant to the law of God and His holy church...

1:51:02 > 1:51:08- ..the supreme government of which no temporal person may by- any- law...

1:51:08 > 1:51:10..presume to take upon him!

1:51:10 > 1:51:18This was granted by the mouth of our Saviour, Christ Himself...

1:51:18 > 1:51:22..to St Peter and the Bishops of Rome...

1:51:22 > 1:51:31..whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth.

1:51:33 > 1:51:40It is therefore insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it.

1:51:40 > 1:51:42And more to this...

1:51:42 > 1:51:46..the immunity of the church is promised...

1:51:46 > 1:51:51..both in Magna Carta and in the King's own coronation oath.

1:51:51 > 1:51:52UPROAR

1:51:52 > 1:51:57- Now we plainly see you- are- malicious!

1:51:56 > 1:51:57Not so!

1:51:57 > 1:52:06I am the King's true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm.

1:52:07 > 1:52:09I do none harm.

1:52:09 > 1:52:11I say none harm.

1:52:12 > 1:52:15I think none harm.

1:52:16 > 1:52:20And if this be not enough to keep a man alive...

1:52:20 > 1:52:23..then in good faith, I long not to live.

1:52:25 > 1:52:27YES!!

1:52:27 > 1:52:33It is not for the supremacy that you have sought my blood!

1:52:33 > 1:52:37But because I would not bend to the marriage!

1:52:37 > 1:52:39HUGE UPROAR

1:52:39 > 1:52:41GAVEL POUNDS

1:52:41 > 1:52:43YELLING/POUNDING

1:52:44 > 1:52:48You have been found guilty of high treason.

1:52:48 > 1:52:53The sentence of the court is that you be taken to the Tower...

1:52:53 > 1:52:54UPROAR

1:52:54 > 1:52:57YELLING ALMOST DROWNS HIS WORDS

1:52:57 > 1:53:01..until time and place be appointed for your execution.

1:53:01 > 1:53:04PANDEMONIUM

1:53:04 > 1:53:06BIRDS TWITTER

1:53:17 > 1:53:19I am commanded by the King to be brief.

1:53:19 > 1:53:25And since I am the King's obedient subject, brief I will be.

1:53:26 > 1:53:32I die His Majesty's good servant, but God's first.

1:53:39 > 1:53:41I forgive you, right readily.

1:53:46 > 1:53:49Be not afraid of your office.

1:53:49 > 1:53:51You send me to God.

1:53:52 > 1:53:55You are very sure of that, Sir Thomas...?

1:53:55 > 1:53:58He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to Him.

1:54:20 > 1:54:23More's head was stuck on Traitor's Gate for a month.

1:54:23 > 1:54:27His daughter Margaret removed it and kept it till her death.

1:54:27 > 1:54:31Cromwell was beheaded for high treason five years after More.

1:54:31 > 1:54:35The archbishop was burned at the stake.

1:54:35 > 1:54:39The Duke of Norfolk should have been executed for high treason...

1:54:39 > 1:54:42..but Henry died of syphilis the night before.

1:54:42 > 1:54:47Richard Rich became chancellor of England, and died in his bed.

1:54:47 > 1:54:50Subtitles by Alison Bonomi