A Man for All Seasons

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BIRDS TWITTER	0:00:13	0:00:15
BIRDS SQUAWK	0:02:46	0:02:48
FAINT LAUGHTER INSIDE	0:04:32	0:04:34
MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY	0:04:40	0:04:43
MEN AND WOMEN LAUGH AND CHAT	0:04:48	0:04:50
(MAN) The bishop says every second bastard is fathered by a priest!	0:05:01	0:05:05
LAUGHTER	0:05:05	0:05:08
CLEARS HIS THROAT	0:05:08	0:05:09
Not in Utopia!	0:05:11	0:05:12
-Why? -There the priests are holy.	0:05:12	0:05:17
And therefore few.	0:05:15	0:05:17
LAUGHTER	0:05:17	0:05:18
Is it anything interesting, Matthew?	0:05:18	0:05:21
Bless you, sir, I don't know.	0:05:21	0:05:27
Bless you too, Matthew.	0:05:24	0:05:27
(WOMAN) Come, we have some holy priests in England, too!	0:05:28	0:05:33
Name some.	0:05:33	0:05:34
Father James.	0:05:34	0:05:35
The man is a simpleton!	0:05:35	0:05:37
It's from Cardinal Wolsey.	0:05:37	0:05:40
What's he want?!	0:05:41	0:05:45
Me.	0:05:43	0:05:45
-When? -Now.	0:05:45	0:05:49
In Hampton Court? You won't be there by midnight.	0:05:46	0:05:49
The King's business.	0:05:49	0:05:55
The Queen's business.	0:05:50	0:05:55
Mistress Anne Boleyn's business!	0:05:52	0:05:55
Well, it's all the Cardinal's business.	0:05:55	0:05:58
Very true. And when he calls, you all come running, day or night.	0:05:58	0:06:03
What is the man?! A butcher's son!	0:06:03	0:06:07
Chancellor of England.	0:06:05	0:06:07
No, that's his office. What's the man?	0:06:07	0:06:10
Surely, your grace, when a man rises so high so swiftly...	0:06:10	0:06:13
..we must think him misplaced in origins.	0:06:13	0:06:16
That, at least, was the opinion of Aristotle, and...	0:06:16	0:06:23
A butcher's son and looks it!	0:06:19	0:06:23
His looks, yes, I give you his looks.	0:06:23	0:06:25
(LAUGHTER)	0:06:25	0:06:27
What did you say, Richard?	0:06:27	0:06:33
Er, nothing, Sir Thomas. It was out of place.	0:06:29	0:06:33
And Wolsey's still a butcher.	0:06:34	0:06:36
And you're a member of the King's high council, not an errand boy!	0:06:36	0:06:42
That is why I must go.	0:06:40	0:06:42
The Duke would go, if the Cardinal called.	0:06:42	0:06:45
Hmm. I... might.	0:06:45	0:06:47
(LAUGHTER)	0:06:47	0:06:49
I'll be back for breakfast. Go to bed.	0:06:49	0:06:52
(ALL) Dear Lord, give us rest, or if we must be wakeful, cheerful.	0:06:52	0:06:57
Careful only for our souls' salvation, for Christ's sake, amen.	0:06:57	0:07:02
Bless our lord the King.	0:07:03	0:07:09
(WOMEN) And bless our lord the King.	0:07:05	0:07:09
-Amen. -Excuse me, gentlemen.	0:07:08	0:07:09
Goodnight, your grace.	0:07:09	0:07:11
Thomas?	0:07:12	0:07:13
Keep clear of Wolsey. He's a frightened man.	0:07:16	0:07:19
Who is that?	0:07:21	0:07:27
-A young friend. -What's he want?	0:07:22	0:07:27
What they all want. A position.	0:07:24	0:07:27
Can you give him a position?	0:07:27	0:07:31
Do you recommend him?	0:07:28	0:07:31
No.	0:07:30	0:07:31
LOW HUM OF VOICES	0:07:40	0:07:42
Sir Thomas!	0:07:47	0:07:50
No.	0:07:49	0:07:50
Did you recommend me?	0:07:50	0:07:53
No.	0:07:52	0:07:53
Richard, I may have a position for you.	0:07:53	0:07:57
What?!	0:07:57	0:08:01
-What position?! -Not now, tomorrow.	0:07:58	0:08:01
For you all, boatman.	0:08:41	0:08:44
Thank you, sir.	0:08:43	0:08:44
Sir Thomas is here, your grace.	0:09:04	0:09:10
Sir Thomas.	0:09:07	0:09:10
Master Cromwell.	0:09:08	0:09:10
You opposed me in the council this morning, Thomas.	0:09:24	0:09:29
Yes, your grace.	0:09:27	0:09:29
You were the only one.	0:09:29	0:09:33
Yes, your grace.	0:09:32	0:09:33
You are a fool.	0:09:34	0:09:40
Thank God there is only one fool on the council.	0:09:36	0:09:40
Why did you oppose me?	0:09:43	0:09:51
I thought your grace was wrong.	0:09:45	0:09:51
A matter of conscience.	0:09:49	0:09:51
You are a constant regret to me, Thomas.	0:09:52	0:09:56
If you could just see facts flat on, without that horrible moral squint.	0:09:56	0:10:02
With a little common sense you could have made a statesman.	0:10:02	0:10:06
FANFARE	0:10:06	0:10:08
The King.	0:10:12	0:10:14
HOOVES CLOP	0:10:22	0:10:24
Where has he been?	0:10:38	0:10:41
Do you know?	0:10:41	0:10:43
I, your grace?	0:10:43	0:10:45
Oh, spare me your discretion!	0:10:45	0:10:48
He's been... to play in the muck again!	0:10:49	0:10:53
He's been to Mistress Anne Boleyn.	0:10:54	0:10:57
More...	0:11:02	0:11:03
Are you going to help me?	0:11:03	0:11:07
If your grace will be specific.	0:11:09	0:11:12
(SIGHS) You're a plodder!	0:11:12	0:11:14
So plod! The King wants a son. What are you going to do about it?	0:11:14	0:11:18
I'm sure the King needs no advice from me on what to do about it.	0:11:18	0:11:23
Thomas, I give you my word there's no-one here.	0:11:23	0:11:27
I didn't suppose there was, your grace.	0:11:27	0:11:30
(LOUD) You favour a change of dynasty? Two Tudors are sufficient?!	0:11:32	0:11:38
Then he needs a son. What will you do?!	0:11:38	0:11:41
I pray for it daily.	0:11:41	0:11:44
God's teeth! He means it.	0:11:44	0:11:46
That thing out there. At least she's fertile.	0:11:46	0:11:49
-She's not his wife. -No.	0:11:49	0:11:55
Catherine's his wife. And she's barren. Pray for a miracle!	0:11:52	0:11:55
There are precedents.	0:11:55	0:12:00
Yes.	0:11:58	0:12:00
Alright, good. Pray. Pray, by all means.	0:12:00	0:12:05
But in addition to prayer there is effort.	0:12:05	0:12:09
My effort is to secure a divorce.	0:12:09	0:12:12
Have I your support or have I not?	0:12:15	0:12:17
The Pope gave a dispensation...	0:12:19	0:12:22
..so that the King might marry his brother's widow for state reasons.	0:12:22	0:12:27
Now we are to ask the Pope to dispense with his dispensation?	0:12:27	0:12:31
Also for state reasons?	0:12:31	0:12:33
I don't like plodding. Well?!	0:12:33	0:12:35
Clearly all we have to do is approach His Holiness and ask him.	0:12:35	0:12:39
We might influence the decision of His Holiness.	0:12:39	0:12:42
By argument?	0:12:42	0:12:44
Argument, yes. And...	0:12:44	0:12:45
..pressure.	0:12:46	0:12:48
Pressure applied to the church, church houses, church property?	0:12:48	0:12:53
Pressure.	0:12:54	0:12:56
No, your grace. I'm not going to help you.	0:13:02	0:13:06
Then goodnight...	0:13:09	0:13:10
..Master More.	0:13:10	0:13:13
Let the dynasty die with Henry VIII and we'll have dynastic wars again!	0:13:15	0:13:20
Blood-witted barons ramping the country from end to end!	0:13:20	0:13:23
Is that what you want?!	0:13:23	0:13:25
Very well.	0:13:26	0:13:28
England needs an heir.	0:13:28	0:13:30
Certain... measures, perhaps regrettable, perhaps not...	0:13:31	0:13:37
There's much in the church which needs reformation, Thomas.	0:13:37	0:13:41
Alright, regrettable!	0:13:41	0:13:44
But necessary to get us an heir!	0:13:44	0:13:47
Explain how you, as a councillor of England, obstruct these measures...	0:13:48	0:13:52
..for the sake of your private conscience?	0:13:52	0:13:55
I think when statesmen forsake their private conscience...	0:13:55	0:14:00
..for the sake of their public duties...	0:14:00	0:14:03
..they lead their country by a short route to chaos.	0:14:03	0:14:07
And we shall have my prayers to fall back on.	0:14:10	0:14:13
You'd like that, wouldn't you?! To govern the country with prayers.	0:14:13	0:14:20
Yes, I should.	0:14:18	0:14:20
I'd like to be there when you try.	0:14:20	0:14:23
Who will wear this after me, hmm?	0:14:24	0:14:27
Who's our next chancellor? You?	0:14:28	0:14:35
Fisher? Suffolk?	0:14:31	0:14:35
-Fisher for me. -But for the King?	0:14:33	0:14:35
What about my secretary, Master Cromwell?	0:14:35	0:14:38
Cromwell?	0:14:38	0:14:40
He's a very able man.	0:14:41	0:14:43
But?	0:14:43	0:14:45
Me rather then Cromwell.	0:14:46	0:14:48
Then come down to earth.	0:14:48	0:14:51
Till you do... then you and I are enemies.	0:14:54	0:14:59
As your grace wishes it.	0:15:00	0:15:03
As God wills.	0:15:05	0:15:06
Perhaps, your grace.	0:15:06	0:15:08
More!	0:15:10	0:15:11
You should have been a cleric.	0:15:11	0:15:14
Like yourself, your grace?	0:15:14	0:15:16
Goodnight, Sir Thomas.	0:15:28	0:15:30
AVID HUM OF VOICES	0:15:32	0:15:34
Sir Thomas!	0:15:37	0:15:38
Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas!	0:15:39	0:15:41
Sir Thomas.	0:15:41	0:15:43
What's this?	0:15:44	0:15:46
From some grateful poor folk in Leicester.	0:15:46	0:15:48
You do more good than you know, Sir Thomas!	0:15:48	0:15:52
My daughter has a case, sir, in the court of poor man's causes.	0:15:55	0:15:59
Baked apples, sir.	0:15:59	0:16:01
To sweeten my judgement.	0:16:01	0:16:03
I'll give your daughter the same judgement I'd give my own.	0:16:03	0:16:08
A fair one, quickly.	0:16:08	0:16:10
(ALL TALK AT ONCE)	0:16:10	0:16:12
I understand. Yes, I'll read it. Thank you. I'll read it. Thank you.	0:16:12	0:16:17
Thank you.	0:16:17	0:16:19
Good evening, Sir Thomas.	0:16:20	0:16:28
-I'll read it. -It's awkward.	0:16:22	0:16:28
-I could -I'll read it.	0:16:26	0:16:28
Just a...	0:16:28	0:16:29
BOAT!	0:16:30	0:16:32
Sir!	0:16:32	0:16:34
CLOCK STRIKES BUT HOUR IS UNCLEAR	0:16:43	0:16:46
Chelsea, sir?	0:16:54	0:16:57
Chelsea.	0:16:56	0:16:57
I expect you'll make it worth my while, sir.	0:16:57	0:17:00
Have you a licence?	0:17:00	0:17:06
God bless you, yes, sir, I have.	0:17:01	0:17:06
-Then the fares are fixed. -They are.	0:17:03	0:17:06
Hampton to Chelsea downstream, a penny happenny, upstream the same.	0:17:06	0:17:11
Whoever makes the rules doesn't row!	0:17:11	0:17:17
No. Thruppence if you get me home for breakfast.	0:17:13	0:17:17
Thank you, sir!	0:17:17	0:17:18
BIRDS CALL	0:17:22	0:17:24
A nice cup, sir.	0:17:45	0:17:47
Yes.	0:17:48	0:17:49
Here, no!	0:18:02	0:18:04
That's worth money, sir!	0:18:06	0:18:08
WATER SPLASHES	0:18:20	0:18:23
Mind your way, sir.	0:18:44	0:18:46
Thank you, sir.	0:18:51	0:18:53
Have you been here all night?	0:18:59	0:19:03
Yes.	0:19:01	0:19:03
You said there was a post.	0:19:03	0:19:09
Oh, yes, yes. I'll offer you a post.	0:19:06	0:19:08
With a house, a servant, and £50 a year.	0:19:08	0:19:12
What? What post?!	0:19:12	0:19:15
At the new school.	0:19:13	0:19:15
A teacher?	0:19:17	0:19:19
Richard, no-one's going to give you a place at court.	0:19:19	0:19:23
Master Cromwell says he'll help me!	0:19:23	0:19:26
Cromwell?	0:19:29	0:19:30
Well, if you know Cromwell, you don't need my help.	0:19:30	0:19:34
Sir Thomas?	0:19:34	0:19:36
If only you knew how much, much rather I'd your help than his.	0:19:38	0:19:42
Not to a place at court.	0:19:43	0:19:46
Why not?	0:19:46	0:19:48
Look.	0:19:50	0:19:51
What is it?	0:19:51	0:19:53
It's a bribe.	0:19:53	0:19:55
"I am the gift of Avril Machin."	0:19:56	0:20:00
And Avril Machin has a lawsuit in the court of requests.	0:20:00	0:20:05
Italian silver.	0:20:05	0:20:07
Take it.	0:20:07	0:20:09
No joke.	0:20:09	0:20:11
Thank you!	0:20:12	0:20:14
What will you do with it?	0:20:17	0:20:22
Sell it.	0:20:19	0:20:22
-And buy what? -A decent gown.	0:20:20	0:20:22
But Richard, that's a little bribe.	0:20:23	0:20:26
At court they offer many things. Manors, houses, coats of arms.	0:20:26	0:20:31
A man should go where he won't be tempted.	0:20:31	0:20:35
Why not be a teacher?	0:20:35	0:20:37
You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps a great one.	0:20:37	0:20:41
-And who would know it? -You.	0:20:41	0:20:49
Your pupils, your friends.	0:20:43	0:20:49
God. Not a bad public, that.	0:20:46	0:20:49
Oh...	0:20:49	0:20:51
And a quiet life.	0:20:52	0:20:54
-You -say that?! Come from talking with the Cardinal!	0:20:54	0:21:00
Talking with the Cardinal.	0:20:58	0:21:00
It's eating your heart out the high affairs of state.	0:21:00	0:21:06
The divorce.	0:21:04	0:21:06
Boatman!	0:21:06	0:21:10
Sir?	0:21:08	0:21:10
Take this gentleman to the New Inn.	0:21:10	0:21:13
Sir.	0:21:12	0:21:13
Sir Thomas? Thank you.	0:21:13	0:21:15
Be a teacher.	0:21:16	0:21:18
-Matthew. -Sir.	0:21:28	0:21:33
-Lady Alice in bed? -Yes, sir.	0:21:29	0:21:33
-Lady Margaret? -No, sir.	0:21:32	0:21:33
Master Roper's here, sir.	0:21:33	0:21:40
At this hour?! Who let him in?!	0:21:36	0:21:40
He's a hard man to keep out, sir!	0:21:38	0:21:40
Will wants to marry me, Father.	0:22:02	0:22:08
Well, he can't marry you.	0:22:05	0:22:08
Sir Thomas, I am called to the bar.	0:22:09	0:22:14
Oh, congratulations, Roper!	0:22:11	0:22:14
My family might not be at the palace	0:22:14	0:22:19
There's nothing wrong with them.	0:22:17	0:22:19
There's not much wrong with you.	0:22:19	0:22:22
Except you seem to need a clock.	0:22:23	0:22:28
I can buy a clock, sir.	0:22:25	0:22:28
Roper, the answer is no, and will be as long as you're a heretic.	0:22:28	0:22:32
A word I don't like, Sir Thomas!	0:22:32	0:22:36
It's not a likeable thing.	0:22:34	0:22:36
The church is heretical. Dr Luther has proved that.	0:22:36	0:22:40
-An ex-communicat. -From a heretic church!	0:22:40	0:22:46
A shop, salvation by the shilling!	0:22:42	0:22:46
-And divorces! -Will, no!	0:22:46	0:22:54
-I know it's true. -No sense of place!	0:22:48	0:22:54
(YAWNS) No sense of time!	0:22:51	0:22:54
Now listen, Will.	0:22:54	0:22:56
Two years ago you were a passionate churchman, now a keen Lutheran.	0:22:56	0:23:01
We pray that when your head finishes turning your face is to the front!	0:23:01	0:23:06
Is your horse here?	0:23:07	0:23:11
No, sir, I walked.	0:23:09	0:23:11
Take a horse from the stables and get back home.	0:23:11	0:23:14
Go along.	0:23:15	0:23:17
May I come again?	0:23:17	0:23:19
Yes.	0:23:21	0:23:23
Soon.	0:23:23	0:23:24
Is that final, Father?	0:23:29	0:23:34
As long as he's a heretic, absolute.	0:23:31	0:23:34
What did Wolsey want?	0:23:37	0:23:39
Nice boy, young Will.	0:23:41	0:23:43
Terribly strong principles, that one.	0:23:46	0:23:49
CRASH	0:23:49	0:23:50
Clumsy, too.	0:23:50	0:23:51
You're very pensive.	0:23:51	0:23:55
You're very gay.	0:23:53	0:23:55
Was it the divorce?	0:23:55	0:23:57
To bed.	0:23:58	0:23:59
They're a cantankerous lot, the Ropers. Swimming against the stream!	0:23:59	0:24:04
Old Roper was just the same	0:24:04	0:24:09
You don't want to talk about it.	0:24:06	0:24:09
No.	0:24:10	0:24:12
Oh! I'm sorry you were wakened, chick!	0:24:15	0:24:18
I wasn't sleeping very deeply. What did Wolsey want?	0:24:18	0:24:22
Er... Will Roper's been.	0:24:23	0:24:27
Will Roper?!	0:24:25	0:24:27
He's been here all night. He wants to marry Meg.	0:24:27	0:24:33
-Why you don't beat that girl ! -No.	0:24:30	0:24:33
She's full of education, and it's a delicate commodity. Goodnight, Meg.	0:24:33	0:24:38
Goodnight.	0:24:38	0:24:40
Marry Meg! A lawyer's son!	0:24:43	0:24:50
She's a lawyer's daughter.	0:24:46	0:24:50
SHE SNORTS	0:24:48	0:24:50
Norfolk spoke of you for chancellor of England before he left.	0:24:51	0:24:56
He's a dangerous friend, then. Wolsey's chancellor, God help him.	0:24:56	0:25:01
But Norfolk said if Wolsey fell	0:25:01	0:25:07
If Wolsey fell, the splash would swamp small boats like ours.	0:25:03	0:25:07
No, there'll be no new chancellors while Wolsey lives.	0:25:07	0:25:12
WIND HOWLS	0:25:14	0:25:16
HORSES APPROACH	0:25:21	0:25:23
BELL TOLLS	0:25:40	0:25:42
MONKS SING IN LATIN	0:25:44	0:25:46
SINGING BREAKS OFF	0:25:58	0:25:59
The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England!	0:25:59	0:26:03
Have you any message for His Majesty?	0:26:16	0:26:19
(SLURRED) If I had served God...	0:26:22	0:26:24
..half so well as I have served my King...	0:26:24	0:26:27
..God would not have left me here to die in this place.	0:26:27	0:26:32
Thank God for it! The King would have you die in the Tower!	0:26:33	0:26:37
DOOR SLAMS	0:26:40	0:26:42
ELABORATE FANFARE RINGS OUT	0:26:42	0:26:44
I am straightly charged by the King himself...	0:27:00	0:27:04
..here openly to declare how much all England is beholden to this man	0:27:04	0:27:10
..and how worthy he is to have the highest room in the realm...	0:27:10	0:27:15
..and how dearly the King's Grace doth both love and trust him...	0:27:15	0:27:19
..not only for much good counsel delivered in council...	0:27:19	0:27:24
..but for better council yet, which is privy to the King's person.	0:27:24	0:27:29
And this same Sir Thomas More...	0:27:29	0:27:32
..here made before you all to be lord chancellor of the realm.	0:27:32	0:27:39
FANFARE	0:27:52	0:27:54
MAJESTIC MUSIC RINGS OUT	0:28:04	0:28:06
RAUCOUS LAUGHTER	0:28:35	0:28:37
COURTIERS LAUGH	0:28:40	0:28:42
Jesus!	0:29:10	0:29:11
Calm yourself, Matthew. Fetch Lady Alice.	0:29:14	0:29:17
WHIMPERS	0:29:17	0:29:19
DOG BARKS EXCITEDLY	0:29:19	0:29:21
Mmm.	0:29:27	0:29:29
That's very well.	0:29:29	0:29:31
BARKING OUTSIDE	0:29:32	0:29:33
My lady, the King!	0:29:35	0:29:37
DOG BARKS HYSTERICALLY	0:29:39	0:29:42
HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA!	0:30:17	0:30:19
THEY START TO TITTER NERVOUSLY, THEN LAUGH LOUDLY	0:30:19	0:30:23
LAUGHTER CONTINUES	0:30:23	0:30:25
FORCED JOLLITY CONTINUES	0:30:35	0:30:37
Remember, it's a surprise.	0:30:40	0:30:44
But he'll know we expect	0:30:42	0:30:44
It's a great honour, a friend calling.	0:30:44	0:30:47
What's he really coming for?	0:30:47	0:30:54
The divorce. He wants an answer.	0:30:48	0:30:54
-He's had an answer. -He wants another	0:30:51	0:30:54
< THOMAS!	0:30:54	0:30:55
Your majesty does my house more honour than I fear it will bear.	0:31:01	0:31:08
No ceremony, Thomas, no ceremony.	0:31:05	0:31:08
A passing fancy, happened to be on the river. Look, mud!	0:31:08	0:31:13
THEY LAUGH	0:31:12	0:31:13
By heaven, what an evening!	0:31:15	0:31:18
Lady Alice. I fear we came upon you unexpectedly.	0:31:18	0:31:21
Yes, your grace.	0:31:21	0:31:22
Well, no, your grace. That is... we are ready to entertain.	0:31:22	0:31:27
This is my daughter Margaret, sire.	0:31:27	0:31:29
She has not yet had the honour to meet your grace.	0:31:29	0:31:33
Why, Margaret, they told me you were a scholar.	0:31:33	0:31:36
Answer, Margaret.	0:31:36	0:31:38
Among women I pass for one, your grace.	0:31:38	0:31:41
Antiquone modo Latina loqueris an oxoniensi?	0:31:43	0:31:48
Quem me docuit pater, Domine.	0:31:48	0:31:49
Bene. Optimum est.	0:31:50	0:31:53
Graecam me linguam quoque te docuit?	0:31:54	0:31:58
Graecam me docuit non pater meus, sed mei patris amicus...	0:31:58	0:32:02
..Johannes Coletus, Sancti Pauli Decanus.	0:32:02	0:32:05
In litris Graecis Tamen, non minus quam Latinis ars magistri...	0:32:05	0:32:10
Can you dance, too?	0:32:11	0:32:15
Not well, your grace.	0:32:13	0:32:15
Well, I dance superlatively!	0:32:17	0:32:20
That's a dancer's leg, Margaret!	0:32:20	0:32:22
ALL LAUGH	0:32:22	0:32:24
Lady Alice, the river has given me an appetite.	0:32:33	0:32:37
If your grace would share a very simple supper...	0:32:37	0:32:41
It would please me. Lead them in. Thomas and I will follow.	0:32:41	0:32:44
Matthew!	0:32:44	0:32:45
My lords and gentlemen!	0:32:45	0:32:49
LOW HUM OF VOICES	0:32:49	0:32:51
Margaret?	0:32:53	0:32:56
Your grace?	0:32:54	0:32:56
Do you like music?	0:32:56	0:33:02
Yes, your grace.	0:32:58	0:33:02
They'll play to you.	0:32:59	0:33:02
SOFT MUSIC PLAYS INSIDE	0:33:07	0:33:09
INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION	0:33:14	0:33:17
Ah, now, listen to this!	0:33:25	0:33:29
SLOW, HAUNTING TUNE	0:33:27	0:33:29
Sit down.	0:33:29	0:33:30
Be seated. No courtship, Thomas.	0:33:32	0:33:35
You're my friend. Are you not?	0:33:38	0:33:41
Your majesty...	0:33:41	0:33:43
Thank God I have a friend for my chancellor.	0:33:43	0:33:46
Readier to be friend, I trust, than he was to be chancellor.	0:33:46	0:33:51
My knowledge of my abilities...	0:33:49	0:33:51
I will judge of your abilities, Thomas.	0:33:51	0:33:55
You know that Wolsey named you for chancellor?	0:33:56	0:34:01
Wolsey?	0:34:01	0:34:02
Aye. Before he died, Wolsey named you. He was no fool.	0:34:02	0:34:05
He was a statesman of incomparable ability, your grace.	0:34:05	0:34:09
-Was -he?	0:34:10	0:34:13
-Was -he so?	0:34:14	0:34:15
Then why did he fail me?	0:34:15	0:34:18
It was villainy, then!	0:34:21	0:34:23
Yes, villainy! Secret opposition, secret!	0:34:23	0:34:27
But deliberate, wilful opposition! He wanted to be Pope, to master me!	0:34:27	0:34:32
Is it that, because I am simple and plain...	0:34:32	0:34:34
..and deal with every man straightforwardly...	0:34:34	0:34:38
..DO THEY TAKE ME FOR A SIMPLETON?!	0:34:38	0:34:41
Wolsey was a proud man, Thomas.	0:34:46	0:34:51
Pride right through, and he failed me.	0:34:51	0:34:54
He failed me in the one thing that matters, then as now.	0:34:54	0:34:59
But look.	0:35:01	0:35:04
Be seated.	0:35:04	0:35:06
What an evening!	0:35:10	0:35:12
A man could fight a lion, eh?	0:35:13	0:35:18
Some men could, your grace.	0:35:16	0:35:18
Thomas...	0:35:19	0:35:20
On the... matter of my divorce. Have you thought of it since we spoke?	0:35:20	0:35:27
Of little else.	0:35:26	0:35:27
Do you see your way clear to me?	0:35:27	0:35:29
To put away Queen Catherine, sire...	0:35:29	0:35:32
I see so clearly that I cannot come with your grace...	0:35:32	0:35:36
..that my endeavour is not to think of it at all.	0:35:36	0:35:39
THEN YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT ENOUGH!	0:35:39	0:35:42
Lilac.	0:35:48	0:35:50
I have them at Hampton.	0:35:51	0:35:52
Not so fine as this, though.	0:35:52	0:35:55
I am in an excellent frame of mind.	0:35:57	0:36:00
Thomas, you must consider I stand in peril of my soul.	0:36:05	0:36:08
It was no marriage. I have lived in incest with my brother's widow.	0:36:08	0:36:13
Leviticus: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife"	0:36:13	0:36:19
Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 16.	0:36:19	0:36:25
Yes, but Deuteronomy	0:36:22	0:36:25
Is ambiguous!	0:36:24	0:36:25
I am not fitted to meddle in these matters. It seems the holy see	0:36:25	0:36:31
Thomas, Thomas, Thomas!	0:36:29	0:36:31
Does a man need a pope to tell him when he's sinned?!	0:36:31	0:36:35
It was a sin. God's punished me.	0:36:35	0:36:39
I have no son.	0:36:40	0:36:42
Son after son she's borne me, all dead at birth...	0:36:42	0:36:46
..or dead within the month.	0:36:46	0:36:48
Never saw the hand of God so clear!	0:36:48	0:36:51
It's my duty to put away the Queen!	0:36:51	0:36:53
The popes back to Peter shall not come between me and my duty!	0:36:53	0:36:57
How is it you cannot see? Everyone else does.	0:36:57	0:37:01
Then why does your grace need my poor support?	0:37:01	0:37:06
Because you're honest.	0:37:04	0:37:06
And more to the purpose, known to be honest.	0:37:06	0:37:09
Some, like Norfolk, follow me because I wear the crown.	0:37:09	0:37:12
Some, like Cromwell, are jackals and I am their tiger.	0:37:12	0:37:16
A mass follows me because it follows ought that moves!	0:37:16	0:37:20
Then there's you.	0:37:20	0:37:22
I am sick to think how much I must displease your grace.	0:37:23	0:37:28
No, Thomas. I respect your sincerity.	0:37:28	0:37:32
But respect, man, that's water in the desert.	0:37:33	0:37:40
How did you like our music?	0:37:45	0:37:47
That air they played, it had a certain... Tell me what you thought.	0:37:47	0:37:51
Could it have been your grace's own?	0:37:51	0:37:56
Discovered!	0:37:54	0:37:55
Now I'll never know your true opinion, and that's irksome!	0:37:55	0:37:59
We artists love praise, yet we love truth better.	0:37:59	0:38:03
Then I will give my true opinion.	0:38:03	0:38:05
To me it seemed... delightful.	0:38:05	0:38:08
Thomas! I chose the right man for chancellor.	0:38:09	0:38:14
I should add that my taste is reputedly deplorable.	0:38:14	0:38:18
Your taste is excellent! It exactly coincides with my own!	0:38:18	0:38:23
Ah!	0:38:25	0:38:27
Music!	0:38:27	0:38:29
Music...	0:38:29	0:38:30
Send them back without me. I'll live here in Chelsea and make music.	0:38:30	0:38:37
My house is at your grace's disposal.	0:38:37	0:38:39
Touching this other business, mark you.	0:38:39	0:38:42
I've no opposition.	0:38:43	0:38:45
Your grace...	0:38:46	0:38:48
No opposition, I say. No opposition.	0:38:48	0:38:53
Be seated!	0:38:53	0:38:55
I'll leave you out of it.	0:38:57	0:38:59
But you are my chancellor.	0:39:00	0:39:02
I don't take it kindly, and I'll have no opposition!	0:39:02	0:39:07
I see how it will be!	0:39:09	0:39:11
The bishops will oppose me!	0:39:12	0:39:14
That fat princes of the church! Hypocrites, all hypocrites!	0:39:14	0:39:19
Mind they do not take you in, Thomas!	0:39:19	0:39:21
If I cannot serve your grace in this great matter of the Queen	0:39:21	0:39:29
I HAVE NO QUEEN!!	0:39:27	0:39:29
CATHERINE'S NOT MY WIFE!!	0:39:29	0:39:31
No priest can make her so!	0:39:32	0:39:34
They that say she is my wife are not only liars but traitors!	0:39:34	0:39:38
YES, TRAITORS!!	0:39:39	0:39:42
THAT I WILL NOT BROOK, NO!	0:39:42	0:39:44
TREACHERY, TREACHERY, TREACHERY I WILL NOT BROOK! IT MADDENS ME!	0:39:44	0:39:50
IT IS A DEADLY CANKER IN THE BODY POLITIC! AND I WILL HAVE IT OUT!!	0:39:50	0:39:56
See?	0:40:04	0:40:05
You see how you have maddened me? I hardly know myself.	0:40:07	0:40:12
If you come with me there's no man I'd sooner raise, with my own hand.	0:40:19	0:40:28
Oh, your grace overwhelms me!	0:40:25	0:40:28
CLOCK STRIKES	0:40:29	0:40:31
What's that?	0:40:36	0:40:41
Eight o'clock, your grace.	0:40:38	0:40:41
Lift yourself up, man.	0:40:42	0:40:44
Have I not promised I'll leave you out of it?	0:40:45	0:40:50
Shall we eat?!	0:40:51	0:40:55
If your grace pleases.	0:40:53	0:40:55
Eight o'clock, you said?	0:40:58	0:41:00
The tide will be turning. I was forgetting the tide. I must go.	0:41:01	0:41:06
I'm sorry, your grace.	0:41:06	0:41:07
If I miss the tide, I'll not get back to Richmond.	0:41:07	0:41:11
No, don't come!	0:41:11	0:41:12
Lady Alice. I must go, I must catch the tide.	0:41:16	0:41:18
Affairs call me, so we give you our thanks and say goodnight.	0:41:18	0:41:22
CONFUSION OF VOICES AND BARKING	0:41:29	0:41:32
What's this?! You crossed him?!	0:41:43	0:41:50
-Somewhat. -Why?!	0:41:46	0:41:50
I couldn't find the other way.	0:41:48	0:41:50
You are too nice altogether!	0:41:50	0:41:55
WOMAN, MIND YOUR HOUSE!	0:41:51	0:41:55
I am minding my house!	0:41:53	0:41:55
(CROWD CHEER) God save your majesty!	0:41:58	0:42:02
God save your grace!	0:42:00	0:42:02
CHEERING	0:42:02	0:42:04
THEY CALL OUT AND CHEER HIM	0:42:04	0:42:07
Lift!	0:42:13	0:42:15
CHEERING CONTINUES	0:42:18	0:42:20
Drop! Together.	0:42:23	0:42:24
OARSMEN CHANT	0:42:24	0:42:26
LAUGHS RAUCOUSLY	0:42:36	0:42:38
CROWD LAUGH	0:42:44	0:42:46
Are you coming my way, Rich?	0:42:59	0:43:01
No.	0:43:03	0:43:04
I think you should, you know.	0:43:05	0:43:08
I can't tell you anything.	0:43:08	0:43:10
Well?!	0:43:16	0:43:18
PEOPLE SHRIEK WITH LAUGHTER	0:43:21	0:43:24
Thomas?	0:43:30	0:43:32
Stay friends with him.	0:43:34	0:43:36
Whatever may be done by smiling, you may rely on me to do.	0:43:36	0:43:41
Alice!	0:43:43	0:43:44
Alice!	0:43:45	0:43:46
Set your mind at rest.	0:43:48	0:43:49
This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.	0:43:49	0:43:53
DOOR OPENS	0:43:53	0:43:55
Good evening, sir. Lady Alice.	0:44:02	0:44:05
Will wants to talk to you, Father.	0:44:06	0:44:08
I told him it wouldn't be convenient!	0:44:08	0:44:12
Quite right. You're free with my daughter's hand, Roper.	0:44:12	0:44:16
Yes. It is of that I wish to speak.	0:44:17	0:44:20
Sir, you have had a disagreement with His Majesty.	0:44:20	0:44:25
Have I?	0:44:23	0:44:25
So Meg tells me. I offer my congratulations.	0:44:25	0:44:29
If true, is it a matter for congratulation?	0:44:29	0:44:33
Yes!	0:44:31	0:44:33
Sir, when last I asked you for your daughter's hand...	0:44:36	0:44:40
..you objected to my unorthodox opinions.	0:44:40	0:44:44
I did.	0:44:44	0:44:45
Since then my views have somewhat modified.	0:44:45	0:44:48
That's good hearing, Will.	0:44:52	0:44:54
But I modify nothing concerning the corruption in the church!	0:44:54	0:44:59
Good.	0:44:59	0:45:00
But an attack on the church herself, no! An attack on God!	0:45:00	0:45:04
-Roper! -The devil's work!	0:45:04	0:45:10
The devil's ministers!	0:45:06	0:45:10
Will, remember my office!	0:45:07	0:45:09
If you stand on your office	0:45:09	0:45:15
I don't, but there are things I may not hear.	0:45:11	0:45:15
Sir Thomas?	0:45:15	0:45:16
Richard!	0:45:18	0:45:20
I fell.	0:45:20	0:45:22
Lady Alice.	0:45:23	0:45:27
-Lady Margaret. -Good evening.	0:45:25	0:45:27
You know William Roper the younger?	0:45:27	0:45:33
By reputation, of course!	0:45:29	0:45:33
-Good evening, Master...? -Rich.	0:45:31	0:45:33
Ah.	0:45:33	0:45:34
Oh!	0:45:35	0:45:36
You've heard of me?	0:45:39	0:45:43
Yes.	0:45:41	0:45:43
In what connection? I don't know what you can have heard.	0:45:43	0:45:47
I sense that I am not welcome here!	0:45:52	0:45:58
Have you done something to make you not welcome?	0:45:54	0:45:57
Cromwell is asking about you, continually, you and your opinions!	0:45:57	0:46:02
Of whom?	0:46:02	0:46:04
Of him, for one, that's one of his sources!	0:46:04	0:46:07
Of course. That's one of my servants.	0:46:08	0:46:11
Alright, Matthew.	0:46:11	0:46:14
You look at me as though I were an enemy.	0:46:19	0:46:22
Why, Richard, you're shaking.	0:46:23	0:46:25
Help me.	0:46:27	0:46:31
How?	0:46:29	0:46:31
Employ me.	0:46:31	0:46:34
No.	0:46:32	0:46:34
Employ me!	0:46:34	0:46:37
No.	0:46:35	0:46:37
I would be faithful.	0:46:50	0:46:52
Richard, you couldn't answer for yourself even so far as tonight.	0:46:53	0:47:00
Arrest him!	0:47:11	0:47:15
For what?!	0:47:13	0:47:15
He's dangerous!	0:47:14	0:47:15
-A spy! -Father, that man is bad!	0:47:15	0:47:21
-There's no law against it. -God's law	0:47:17	0:47:21
-God must arrest him. -He's gone!	0:47:19	0:47:21
And go he should, if he were the devil, till he broke the law!	0:47:21	0:47:27
You give the devil benefit of law!	0:47:24	0:47:27
What would you do? Cut through the law to get after the devil?	0:47:27	0:47:31
Yes! I'd cut down every law in England for that!	0:47:31	0:47:34
Oh? And when the last law was down and the devil turned on you?	0:47:34	0:47:37
Where would you hide, the laws being flat?	0:47:37	0:47:40
This country is planted thick with laws, man's laws, not God's.	0:47:40	0:47:45
If you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it!...	0:47:45	0:47:48
..do you think you could stand up in the wind that would blow?!	0:47:48	0:47:52
Yes. I'd give the devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake!	0:47:52	0:47:57
BIRD SQUAWKS	0:48:02	0:48:04
DOOR OPENS/DRUNKEN VOICES	0:48:25	0:48:28
-Master Rich? -Yes.	0:48:34	0:48:37
In there, sir.	0:48:35	0:48:37
LOW HUM OF MEN'S VOICES	0:48:40	0:48:42
Rich? Come in, come in.	0:48:43	0:48:45
It's taken you long enough to get here.	0:48:47	0:48:51
Have I kept you waiting?	0:48:51	0:48:52
Months. (LAUGHS)	0:48:53	0:48:55
Here.	0:48:57	0:48:58
Thank you.	0:48:58	0:49:00
Do you know the news?	0:49:00	0:49:06
What news?	0:49:02	0:49:06
Sir Thomas Paget is retiring.	0:49:03	0:49:06
-And -I -succeed him.	0:49:07	0:49:09
Secretary to the council?! You?!	0:49:10	0:49:15
It is surprising, isn't it?	0:49:13	0:49:15
Oh, no!	0:49:15	0:49:16
I mean, one sees... it's logical.	0:49:17	0:49:20
Sit down, Rich.	0:49:21	0:49:22
No ceremony, no courtship. As His Majesty would say!	0:49:22	0:49:26
Yes.	0:49:28	0:49:29
You see how I trust you?	0:49:29	0:49:31
Oh, I'd never repeat or report a thing like that.	0:49:31	0:49:34
What kind of thing would you repeat or report?	0:49:34	0:49:38
Well... Nothing said in friendship.	0:49:39	0:49:45
Do you believe that?	0:49:42	0:49:45
Yes.	0:49:44	0:49:45
Seriously?	0:49:45	0:49:47
Yes!	0:49:46	0:49:47
Rich!	0:49:47	0:49:49
Seriously!	0:49:50	0:49:51
It... would depend what I was offered.	0:49:56	0:49:59
Don't say it just to please me.	0:50:00	0:50:03
It's true, it would depend what I was offered.	0:50:03	0:50:05
Well, there is another post vacant.	0:50:08	0:50:16
Collector of revenues for York.	0:50:10	0:50:16
-Is it in your gift? -Effectively.	0:50:13	0:50:16
What must I do for it?	0:50:16	0:50:19
Rich... I know a man who wants to change his woman.	0:50:20	0:50:25
A matter of small importance...	0:50:25	0:50:28
..but in this case it's our liege lord Henry, the eighth of that name.	0:50:28	0:50:32
A quaint way of saying that if he wants to change his woman, he will.	0:50:32	0:50:37
And our job as administrators...	0:50:37	0:50:39
..is to minimise the inconvenience this will cause.	0:50:39	0:50:44
That's our only job, Rich!	0:50:44	0:50:45
To minimise the inconvenience of things.	0:50:45	0:50:48
A harmless occupation, you would say.	0:50:48	0:50:51
But no. We administrators are not liked, Rich.	0:50:51	0:50:55
We are not popular.	0:50:55	0:50:57
I say WE on the assumption you accept the post at York.	0:50:57	0:51:01
Yes.	0:51:05	0:51:06
Yes.	0:51:07	0:51:09
It's a bad sign when people are depressed by their own good fortune!	0:51:12	0:51:20
-I'm not depressed! -You look it!	0:51:17	0:51:20
I was lamenting. I've lost my innocence!	0:51:20	0:51:23
A while ago. Have you only just noticed?	0:51:23	0:51:26
Your friend, our present chancellor, now there's an innocent man.	0:51:26	0:51:31
The odd thing is, he is.	0:51:31	0:51:34
Yes, I say he is.	0:51:34	0:51:36
But his innocence is tangled in this proposition...	0:51:36	0:51:40
..that you can't change your woman without a divorce.	0:51:40	0:51:43
And no divorce unless the Pope says so.	0:51:43	0:51:46
And from this circumstance I foresee a measure of...	0:51:46	0:51:52
Inconvenience?	0:51:50	0:51:51
Just so.	0:51:51	0:51:53
This goblet he gave you, how much was it worth?	0:51:53	0:51:56
He gave you a silver goblet! What did you get for it?!	0:51:58	0:52:01
50 shillings.	0:52:02	0:52:03
It was a gift from a litigant, a woman.	0:52:03	0:52:09
-Yes. -Which court? Chancery?	0:52:06	0:52:09
Don't get drunk!	0:52:10	0:52:12
Which court was the litigant's case?!	0:52:13	0:52:16
The court of requests.	0:52:16	0:52:18
Hmm.	0:52:18	0:52:20
There. That wasn't too painful, was it?	0:52:21	0:52:24
-No. -No.	0:52:25	0:52:27
You'll find it easier, next time.	0:52:27	0:52:30
BELL TOLLS	0:52:35	0:52:37
My lord archbishop, my lords, reverend doctors of the church...	0:53:04	0:53:09
The answer of our liege lord Henry to his trusty, well-beloved subjects	0:53:09	0:53:15
..pontiffs in the Canterbury convocation.	0:53:15	0:53:18
His Majesty acknowledges your humble admission of many great errors...	0:53:20	0:53:26
..for which he accepts the manumission of £100,000 in token.	0:53:26	0:53:32
But...	0:53:33	0:53:34
..mindful for the wellbeing of the realm...	0:53:36	0:53:39
..His Majesty requires you to renounce...	0:53:39	0:53:41
..your pretended allegiance to the see of Rome...	0:53:41	0:53:45
..and admit the statute passed through parliament...	0:53:45	0:53:49
..acknowledging the King's title...	0:53:49	0:53:52
..Supreme Head of the Church in England.	0:53:52	0:53:55
Well, my lords? What's your answer?	0:54:00	0:54:02
Yea or nay?	0:54:04	0:54:07
His Majesty accepts your resignation sadly.	0:54:08	0:54:11
He is mindful of your goodness and past loyalty.	0:54:11	0:54:14
In matters concerning your welfare he will continue your good lord.	0:54:14	0:54:19
You will convey my humble gratitude?	0:54:19	0:54:22
Help me with this.	0:54:27	0:54:30
Not I!	0:54:29	0:54:30
Alice?	0:54:32	0:54:39
No! Sun and moon, Master More, you are taken for a wise man!	0:54:34	0:54:39
Is this wisdom, to betray your ability?!	0:54:39	0:54:43
Abandon your family and forget your duty to your kin?!	0:54:43	0:54:46
Shall I, sir?	0:54:46	0:54:48
No. Thank you, son Roper.	0:54:49	0:54:53
Margaret?	0:54:53	0:54:55
Will you?	0:54:57	0:54:58
Yes.	0:54:58	0:55:00
If you want.	0:55:04	0:55:06
There's my clever girl.	0:55:12	0:55:14
Well done, sir!	0:55:16	0:55:18
In my opinion, that thing's a degradation!	0:55:18	0:55:22
-And as for the King's title -Don't!	0:55:22	0:55:30
Will, silence! Remember you have a wife now, and may have children.	0:55:25	0:55:30
Alright, Thomas, make me understand!	0:55:40	0:55:43
Because I tell you, to me this looks like cowardice.	0:55:43	0:55:47
I will. This isn't reformation, this is war against the church.	0:55:47	0:55:51
Our King declares war on the Pope...	0:55:51	0:55:53
..because the Pope will not say our Queen is not his wife.	0:55:53	0:55:57
And is she?	0:55:57	0:55:58
Is she?!	0:56:00	0:56:02
Have I your word that what we say here is between us two?	0:56:04	0:56:09
Oh, very well.	0:56:07	0:56:09
If the King should command you repeat my words?	0:56:09	0:56:12
I keep my word.	0:56:12	0:56:13
Then what has become of your oath of obedience to the King?!	0:56:13	0:56:18
You lay traps for me.	0:56:20	0:56:22
No. I show you the times.	0:56:22	0:56:25
Hmm. Alright.	0:56:25	0:56:27
We are at war with the Pope. The Pope's a prince, isn't he?	0:56:27	0:56:32
He is. And the descendant of St Peter, our only link with Christ.	0:56:32	0:56:36
So you believe.	0:56:36	0:56:38
You'll forfeit all, and the respect of your country, for a belief?	0:56:38	0:56:42
What matters is that I believe it, or rather know.	0:56:42	0:56:46
-Not that I believe it but that -I -believe it.	0:56:46	0:56:49
I trust I make myself obscure?	0:56:49	0:56:53
Perfectly.	0:56:52	0:56:53
Why do you insult me with this lawyers' chatter?	0:56:55	0:56:59
Because I am afraid.	0:56:59	0:57:02
Man, you're ill!	0:57:02	0:57:03
This isn't Spain, you know! This is England.	0:57:06	0:57:09
LOW, INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS	0:57:11	0:57:14
My friends, you all know why I have called you here.	0:57:27	0:57:31
I have today resigned my office.	0:57:31	0:57:35
I am no longer a great man.	0:57:38	0:57:41
CHUCKLING	0:57:41	0:57:42
Sir, we want you to know we're all on your side.	0:57:42	0:57:45
My side. What side is that?	0:57:45	0:57:48
Well, sir, we all know what you think.	0:57:48	0:57:51
None of you knows that.	0:57:51	0:57:52
And if you guess it and babble it about, you do me no good service.	0:57:52	0:57:57
Since I am no more a great man, I no longer need a great household.	0:57:57	0:58:01
Nor can I afford one.	0:58:01	0:58:03
You... will have to go.	0:58:03	0:58:05
However, I still number great men among my friends...	0:58:05	0:58:09
..and they still need great households.	0:58:09	0:58:12
No-one will leave without another place.	0:58:12	0:58:17
-We can't do that! -Yes, we can.	0:58:15	0:58:17
Thank you.	0:58:19	0:58:21
That is all.	0:58:22	0:58:23
What about you, Matthew?	0:58:34	0:58:36
Will you stay?	0:58:39	0:58:43
Well, sir, that's according.	0:58:40	0:58:43
There will be more work and less money.	0:58:43	0:58:45
Then I don't see how I can, sir. After all, I've got my...	0:58:45	0:58:51
Quite right, Matthew. Why should you? I shall miss you.	0:58:51	0:58:59
Oh, no, sir, you see through me!	0:58:54	0:58:59
I shall miss you.	0:59:03	0:59:05
Damn me! Isn't that them all over?!	0:59:15	0:59:18
Miss me! What's in me for him to miss?!	0:59:18	0:59:20
"Matthew, will you take a cut in wages?" "No, sir." And that's it.	0:59:20	0:59:26
So he's down on his luck. I'm sorry. I don't mind saying that. Bad luck.	0:59:26	0:59:32
If I had good luck to spare, he could have some!	0:59:32	0:59:35
I wish we could all have good luck. I wish rainwater was beer!	0:59:35	0:59:39
I wish we had wings. But we don't!	0:59:39	0:59:42
Well, there's an end of you.	0:59:51	0:59:54
What will you do now, sit by the fire and make goslings in the ash?	0:59:54	0:59:59
Not at all, Alice, I expect I'll write a bit.	0:59:59	1:00:04
I'll write.	1:00:05	1:00:06
I'll read, I'll think.	1:00:07	1:00:09
I think I'll learn to fish.	1:00:10	1:00:13
I'll play with my grandchildren when son Roper's done his duty.	1:00:13	1:00:18
Alice, shall I teach you to read?	1:00:19	1:00:24
No, by God!	1:00:22	1:00:23
Poor silly man, do you think they'll leave you here to sit...?	1:00:23	1:00:29
If we govern our tongues, they will.	1:00:29	1:00:32
Look...	1:00:33	1:00:34
I have a a word to say. I made no statement, I resigned, that's all.	1:00:35	1:00:39
The King is made by parliament supreme head of the church.	1:00:39	1:00:44
This church will first divorce him, then marry him to Lady Anne.	1:00:45	1:00:49
But on any of these matters have you heard me make a statement?	1:00:49	1:00:54
No.	1:00:53	1:00:54
If I'm to lose my rank and fall to housekeeping, I need the reason.	1:00:54	1:01:01
-So make a statement now. -No!	1:00:58	1:01:01
Alice, it's a point of law. Accept that silence is my safety in law.	1:01:01	1:01:06
And my silence must be absolute. It must extend to you.	1:01:06	1:01:11
You don't trust me.	1:01:10	1:01:11
Look...	1:01:11	1:01:13
I am the lord chief justice, I am Cromwell, I am keeper of the Tower.	1:01:13	1:01:19
I take your hand, I clamp it on the Bible, on the Blessed Cross.	1:01:19	1:01:24
I say, "Woman, has your husband made a statement on these matters?"	1:01:24	1:01:28
On peril of your soul, remember, what is your answer?	1:01:28	1:01:32
No.	1:01:33	1:01:34
And so it must remain.	1:01:36	1:01:38
Have you opened your mind to Meg?	1:01:46	1:01:49
Would I tell Meg what I won't tell you?	1:01:49	1:01:52
Meg has your heart. I know that well enough.	1:01:52	1:01:57
This is a dangerous matter, then, if you have not told Meg.	1:02:08	1:02:12
I don't think so.	1:02:12	1:02:14
No, no.	1:02:14	1:02:16
If they find me silent, they'll want nothing better than to leave me so.	1:02:16	1:02:23
You'll see.	1:02:23	1:02:25
If he is silent, Master Secretary, why not leave him silent?!	1:02:46	1:02:51
Your grace, not being a man of letters...	1:02:51	1:02:54
..you perhaps don't realise the extent of his reputation.	1:02:54	1:02:57
His silence is bellowing across Europe!	1:02:57	1:03:00
He is claimed as the King's enemy.	1:03:00	1:03:06
Crank he may be, traitor he is not!	1:03:02	1:03:06
Exactly.	1:03:04	1:03:06
With a little pressure...	1:03:06	1:03:08
..with a little pressure he can be got to say so, that's all.	1:03:08	1:03:12
A brief declaration of his loyalty.	1:03:12	1:03:19
I say let sleeping dogs lie!	1:03:14	1:03:19
The King does not agree with you.	1:03:16	1:03:19
Well... what kind of pressure do you think you can bring to bear?	1:03:23	1:03:28
I have evidence that Sir Thomas, as a judge, accepted bribes.	1:03:28	1:03:33
What?!	1:03:33	1:03:34
Dammit, he was the only judge since Cato who didn't!	1:03:34	1:03:38
As chancellor his possessions totalled £100 and a gold chain!	1:03:38	1:03:44
Richard.	1:03:45	1:03:47
It is, as you imply, common practice.	1:03:47	1:03:50
But a practice may be common and remain an offence.	1:03:50	1:03:53
It could send a man to the Tower.	1:03:53	1:03:56
Come here.	1:04:00	1:04:01
This woman's name is Avril Machin. She comes from Leicester.	1:04:01	1:04:06
-She had a case -A property case.	1:04:06	1:04:10
Shut your mouth!	1:04:09	1:04:10
A case in the court of requests in April, 1528.	1:04:10	1:04:14
And got a wicked false judgement!	1:04:14	1:04:19
An impeccably correct judgement from Sir Thomas.	1:04:15	1:04:19
It was not!	1:04:19	1:04:20
Tell the gentleman about the gift you gave the judge.	1:04:20	1:04:23
I gave him a cup. A silver Italian cup I bought for 100 shillings.	1:04:23	1:04:28
Did Sir Thomas accept this cup?	1:04:28	1:04:34
Yes, sir, he did.	1:04:31	1:04:34
We can corroborate that.	1:04:32	1:04:34
You can go.	1:04:34	1:04:37
-To my way -Go!	1:04:36	1:04:37
Is that your witness?!	1:04:46	1:04:54
No. By an odd coincidence, that cup later came to Master Rich here.	1:04:48	1:04:54
How?	1:04:55	1:05:04
He gave it to me, your grace.	1:05:00	1:05:04
-Gave it you? Why? -A gift.	1:05:01	1:05:04
-Oh, yes, yes. You were a... -friend, -weren't you?	1:05:04	1:05:08
When did Thomas give you this thing?	1:05:08	1:05:13
I... can't exactly remember.	1:05:11	1:05:13
-Do you -remember -what you did with it?	1:05:15	1:05:20
I sold it.	1:05:18	1:05:20
-Where? -A shop.	1:05:20	1:05:26
Do they still have it?	1:05:22	1:05:26
No, they've lost all track of it.	1:05:24	1:05:26
How convenient.	1:05:26	1:05:28
(CHUCKLES) You doubt Master Rich's word, your grace?!	1:05:28	1:05:34
It had occurred to me.	1:05:32	1:05:34
This is the bill of sale.	1:05:37	1:05:39
That cow put her case into court in April.	1:05:49	1:05:52
This is dated May.	1:05:52	1:05:55
In other words...	1:05:55	1:05:56
..as soon as Thomas knew it was a bribe, he dropped it in the gutter.	1:05:56	1:06:01
The facts will bear that interpretation, I suppose.	1:06:04	1:06:07
(LAUGHS) This is a horse that won't run, Master Secretary!	1:06:07	1:06:11
Just a trial gallop. We'll find something better.	1:06:11	1:06:16
-I want no part. -You have no choice.	1:06:14	1:06:16
What's that you say?!	1:06:17	1:06:26
The King wishes you to be active in this matter of Sir Thomas.	1:06:20	1:06:26
He's not told me!	1:06:26	1:06:30
Indeed? He's told me.	1:06:27	1:06:30
Look here, Cromwell... What's the purpose of all this?	1:06:32	1:06:39
There you have me.	1:06:37	1:06:39
It's... it's a matter of conscience, I think.	1:06:39	1:06:42
The King wants Sir Thomas to bless his marriage.	1:06:42	1:06:46
If he appeared at the wedding it would save us all a lot of trouble.	1:06:46	1:06:50
Oh, he won't attend the wedding!	1:06:52	1:06:55
If I were you I'd try and persuade him.	1:06:55	1:06:58
I really would try, if I were you.	1:06:59	1:07:02
Cromwell, are you threatening me?	1:07:04	1:07:13
My dear Norfolk!	1:07:07	1:07:13
This isn't Spain, this is England!	1:07:09	1:07:13
BELLS PEAL JOYOUSLY	1:07:17	1:07:20
BELLS RING OUT	1:07:23	1:07:26
HUNDREDS OF BELLS PEAL	1:07:33	1:07:35
Your majesty!	1:07:38	1:07:42
PEOPLE CALL OUT AND CHEER	1:07:40	1:07:42
COURTIERS LAUGH BAWDILY AND APPLAUD	1:07:50	1:07:54
BUZZ OF JOLLY VOICES	1:07:55	1:07:58
# Where are you going to, Rendel, my son?	1:08:10	1:08:18
# Where are you going to, my handsome young one?	1:08:20	1:08:30
# I'm going a-courting, Mother	1:08:32	1:08:39
# I'm going a-courting, Mother	1:08:41	1:08:48
# Make my bed softly, for I am sick...	1:08:50	1:08:58
CONVIVIAL VOICES START UP AGAIN	1:09:03	1:09:06
Thomas?	1:09:23	1:09:24
Thomas!	1:09:24	1:09:26
Thomas!	1:09:26	1:09:27
THOMAS!	1:09:28	1:09:30
Th-	1:09:30	1:09:31
BELLS STILL RING	1:09:41	1:09:43
KNOCKING	1:10:00	1:10:02
MORE KNOCKING	1:10:04	1:10:06
MAN AND WOMAN LAUGH	1:10:18	1:10:20
Lady Margaret?	1:10:28	1:10:31
Yes.	1:10:30	1:10:31
We've been cutting reeds. We use them for fuel.	1:10:32	1:10:36
I have a letter for your father, Lady Margaret. From Hampton Court.	1:10:38	1:10:43
He's to answer certain charges...	1:10:46	1:10:48
..before Secretary Cromwell.	1:10:48	1:10:51
Good of you to come, Sir Thomas.	1:10:52	1:10:55
Master Rich will make a record of our conversation.	1:11:00	1:11:06
Good of you to tell me.	1:11:04	1:11:06
I think you know one another.	1:11:06	1:11:09
Yes, we're old friends!	1:11:08	1:11:09
That's a nice gown you have, Richard.	1:11:09	1:11:12
Sir Thomas, believe me... No, that's asking too much.	1:11:17	1:11:22
But let me tell you all the same.	1:11:22	1:11:24
You have no more sincere admirer than myself.	1:11:24	1:11:27
No, not yet, Rich, not yet!	1:11:28	1:11:31
LAUGHS	1:11:32	1:11:34
If I might hear the charges.	1:11:34	1:11:40
-Charges? -I hear there are charges.	1:11:36	1:11:40
Some ambiguities to clarify. Hardly charges.	1:11:40	1:11:43
Make a note, Master Rich, there are no charges.	1:11:43	1:11:46
Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas!	1:11:46	1:11:50
The King is not pleased with you.	1:11:54	1:11:59
I am grieved.	1:11:57	1:11:59
And yet even now, if you could bring yourself to agree with the church...	1:11:59	1:12:05
..the universities, the lords and commons...	1:12:05	1:12:08
..there is no honour His Majesty would deny you.	1:12:08	1:12:12
-I am well acquainted with His Grace's -generosity.	1:12:12	1:12:15
Very well.	1:12:17	1:12:18
You have heard of the so-called holy maid of Kent...	1:12:20	1:12:24
..executed for prophesying against the King?	1:12:24	1:12:28
-I met her. -Yes, you did.	1:12:28	1:12:33
Yet did not warn the King of her treason.	1:12:30	1:12:33
How was that?	1:12:33	1:12:37
She spoke no treason. Our talk was not political.	1:12:34	1:12:37
She was notorious! Do you expect me to believe that?!	1:12:37	1:12:42
Happily there were witnesses.	1:12:40	1:12:42
-You wrote a letter to her. -Yes.	1:12:42	1:12:48
I advised her to abstain from meddling in affairs of state.	1:12:45	1:12:48
I have a copy of the letter, also witnessed.	1:12:48	1:12:52
You have been cautious.	1:12:53	1:12:59
I like to keep my affairs regular.	1:12:56	1:12:59
In June of 1521, the King published a book.	1:13:06	1:13:10
A theological work.	1:13:10	1:13:12
It was called A Defence of the Seven Sacraments.	1:13:12	1:13:16
Yes.	1:13:16	1:13:17
For which he was named Defender of the Faith by His Holiness the Pope.	1:13:17	1:13:22
The Bishop of Rome.	1:13:21	1:13:22
Or do you insist on Pope?	1:13:22	1:13:29
Bishop of Rome, if you like. It doesn't alter his authority.	1:13:25	1:13:29
Thank you!	1:13:29	1:13:31
You come to the point very readily. What is that authority?	1:13:31	1:13:35
Concerning the church of England, what is this Bishop's authority?	1:13:35	1:13:39
You will find it very ably set out and defended in the King's book.	1:13:40	1:13:46
"The book published under the King's name" is more accurate!	1:13:46	1:13:50
-You wrote this book! -I did not.	1:13:50	1:13:54
I don't mean you held the pen!	1:13:52	1:13:54
I answered some points of law the King put to me, as I was bound to.	1:13:54	1:13:59
You deny instigating it!	1:13:59	1:14:05
It was from first to last the King's own project.	1:14:01	1:14:05
The King says not.	1:14:05	1:14:06
The King knows the truth of it.	1:14:09	1:14:12
And whatever he may have said, he will not give evidence on this.	1:14:12	1:14:17
Why not?	1:14:18	1:14:20
Because evidence is given on oath. And he will not perjure himself.	1:14:20	1:14:25
If you don't know that, then you don't yet know him.	1:14:25	1:14:30
Sir Thomas More!	1:14:34	1:14:35
Have you anything to say to me on the King's marriage with Queen Anne?	1:14:35	1:14:42
I understood I was not to be asked.	1:14:39	1:14:42
Then you understood wrongly. These charges	1:14:42	1:14:48
Terrors for children! Not for me!	1:14:45	1:14:48
Then know that the King commands me to charge you in his name...	1:14:53	1:14:58
..with great ingratitude.	1:14:58	1:15:00
And to tell you there never was...	1:15:00	1:15:02
..so villainous a servant nor so traitorous a subject as yourself!	1:15:02	1:15:07
So...	1:15:08	1:15:10
I am brought here at last.	1:15:11	1:15:14
Brought?!	1:15:14	1:15:16
You brought yourself to where you stand now!	1:15:16	1:15:20
You may go.	1:15:21	1:15:23
For the present.	1:15:29	1:15:30
What will you do now?	1:15:35	1:15:37
Whatever's necessary!	1:15:39	1:15:42
Boat!	1:15:50	1:15:51
Boat!	1:15:57	1:15:58
Come, come, it's not as bad as all that!	1:16:07	1:16:10
Howard!	1:16:15	1:16:17
I can't get home. They won't bring me a boat!	1:16:23	1:16:28
Do you blame them?	1:16:26	1:16:28
Is it as bad as that?	1:16:28	1:16:33
It's every bit as bad as that!	1:16:30	1:16:33
Then it's good of you to be seen with me.	1:16:33	1:16:36
I followed you.	1:16:36	1:16:40
-Were -you -followed?	1:16:38	1:16:40
STONE RATTLES	1:16:47	1:16:49
Thomas, you are dangerous to know.	1:16:50	1:16:54
-Then don't. -I do know you!	1:16:52	1:16:54
I mean as a friend.	1:16:54	1:16:58
I am your friend. I wish I wasn't!	1:16:56	1:16:58
-What then? -Give in! -I can't give in.	1:16:58	1:17:04
Our friendship's more beautiful than that.	1:17:01	1:17:04
The one fixed point in the world is that you will not give in!	1:17:04	1:17:09
It must be, for that's myself.	1:17:07	1:17:09
Affection goes as deep in me as you. But only God is love right through.	1:17:09	1:17:15
And that's my... self.	1:17:15	1:17:18
And who are you?	1:17:18	1:17:19
A lawyer, and a lawyer's son!	1:17:21	1:17:24
We're supposed to be the proud ones! We've all given in!	1:17:24	1:17:27
Why must you stand out?! Dammit, man, it's...	1:17:27	1:17:31
..disproportionate!	1:17:32	1:17:33
You break my heart.	1:17:35	1:17:37
No-one is safe, Howard.	1:17:37	1:17:40
And you have a son.	1:17:40	1:17:42
We'll end our friendship now.	1:17:44	1:17:47
-For friendship's sake? -Yes.	1:17:48	1:17:52
Daft!	1:17:50	1:17:52
Norfolk, you're a fool!	1:17:58	1:18:00
You can't place a quarrel. You haven't the style.	1:18:02	1:18:05
Hear me out.	1:18:05	1:18:06
You and your class gave in because religion means nothing to you.	1:18:06	1:18:11
That's a foolish saying!	1:18:11	1:18:13
The nobility of England	1:18:14	1:18:20
Would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.	1:18:16	1:18:20
Yet you'll labour like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.	1:18:20	1:18:23
An artificial quarrel's no quarrel.	1:18:23	1:18:30
We've had a quarrel since we met. Our friendship was mere sloth.	1:18:26	1:18:30
You can be cruel, but I've always known that!	1:18:30	1:18:33
What do you value in bulldogs? Gripping, is it not?	1:18:33	1:18:36
Yes!	1:18:36	1:18:38
It's their nature. Why you breed them.	1:18:38	1:18:41
It's so with me. I will not give in because I oppose it.	1:18:41	1:18:44
-Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any of my appetites, but -I -do, I.	1:18:44	1:18:50
Is there in here a sinew that serves no appetite but is just Norfolk?!	1:18:50	1:18:56
There is? Give it some exercise!	1:18:56	1:18:58
As you stand you'll go before your maker ill-conditioned!	1:18:58	1:19:03
Thomas!	1:19:01	1:19:03
He'll think somewhere back in your pedigree a bitch got over the wall!	1:19:03	1:19:07
GROWLS	1:19:07	1:19:09
..law passed in this very house on 3rd April last year...	1:19:20	1:19:25
..it is a matter very fit for the commons to take in hand.	1:19:25	1:19:30
For, in consequence of the decay of guilds...	1:19:30	1:19:34
..the woollen cloth now coming out of Yorkshire, Lincoln and the like..	1:19:34	1:19:41
..is notably... amiss.	1:19:41	1:19:44
I will defer the rest of my matter till later.	1:19:45	1:19:48
That the loyal commons will speedily enact this bill, I doubt not...	1:19:54	1:20:00
..for it concerns the King's new title and his marriage...	1:20:00	1:20:05
..both matters pleasing to a loyal subject.	1:20:05	1:20:08
(ALL) Aye!	1:20:08	1:20:09
But, my masters, there is among us a brood of discreet traitors!	1:20:09	1:20:16
The which deceit the King can brook no longer!	1:20:16	1:20:19
And we, his loyal huntsmen, must now drive these foxes from their covert!	1:20:19	1:20:25
WIND HOWLS	1:20:25	1:20:27
Father?!	1:20:52	1:20:53
Margaret!	1:20:53	1:20:54
I couldn't get a boat.	1:20:54	1:20:57
What is it, Meg?	1:20:57	1:20:59
There's a new act going through parliament.	1:20:59	1:21:02
Oh?	1:21:02	1:21:03
By this act they will administer an oath. About the marriage!	1:21:03	1:21:08
On what compulsion is the oath?	1:21:08	1:21:15
High treason.	1:21:11	1:21:15
But the wording?	1:21:13	1:21:14
Why?! We know what it will mean!	1:21:14	1:21:20
It will mean what the words say. It may be possible to take it.	1:21:16	1:21:20
Take it?!	1:21:20	1:21:22
If it can be taken, you must take it.	1:21:22	1:21:26
-No. No! -Listen, Meg!	1:21:23	1:21:26
God made the angels to show Him splendour.	1:21:26	1:21:30
He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity.	1:21:30	1:21:35
But man He made to serve Him wittily in the tangle of his mind.	1:21:35	1:21:39
If He suffers us to come to such a case that there is no escaping...	1:21:39	1:21:44
..then we may stand as best we can.	1:21:44	1:21:46
Then we can clamour like champions, if we have the spittle for it.	1:21:46	1:21:51
But it's God's part, not our own, to bring ourselves to such a pass.	1:21:51	1:21:55
Our natural business lies in escaping.	1:21:55	1:21:58
If I can take this oath, I will.	1:22:00	1:22:02
I would for my sake you could take the oath.	1:22:06	1:22:09
I never took a man into the Tower less willingly.	1:22:09	1:22:12
Thank you, Master Governor.	1:22:12	1:22:14
Thank you!	1:22:16	1:22:17
Sir Thomas.	1:22:19	1:22:21
BOLTS ARE SHOT	1:22:28	1:22:30
KEYS CLINK	1:22:30	1:22:32
DOG BARKS, CHILDREN SQUEAL	1:22:54	1:22:56
KEYS JINGLE	1:23:39	1:23:41
BOLTS ARE SHOT BACK	1:23:44	1:23:46
Sir Thomas.	1:23:50	1:23:52
Sir Thomas!	1:23:55	1:23:56
Sir Thomas!	1:23:58	1:24:00
Oh, this is iniquitous!	1:24:15	1:24:18
Where to this time?	1:24:21	1:24:24
Richmond Palace.	1:24:23	1:24:24
MUSIC AND LAUGHTER	1:24:29	1:24:31
MUSIC RINGS OUT	1:24:34	1:24:36
LIVELY MUSIC STILL AUDIBLE	1:24:58	1:25:00
DOOR CLOSES	1:25:04	1:25:06
Sit down.	1:25:18	1:25:20
The seventh commission to inquire into the case of Sir Thomas More...	1:25:27	1:25:31
..appointed by His Majesty's council.	1:25:31	1:25:34
(WEARILY) Anything to say?	1:25:34	1:25:37
No.	1:25:36	1:25:37
-Seen this before?! -Many times.	1:25:38	1:25:45
It is the act of succession. These are those who have sworn to it.	1:25:41	1:25:45
I have seen it before.	1:25:45	1:25:50
Will you swear to it?!	1:25:47	1:25:50
No.	1:25:48	1:25:50
Thomas, we must know	1:25:50	1:25:52
We must know if you recognise the offspring of Queen Anne...	1:25:55	1:26:00
..as heirs to the throne.	1:26:00	1:26:02
The King in parliament tells me so. Of course I recognise them.	1:26:02	1:26:08
-You'll swear? -Yes.	1:26:06	1:26:07
Then why won't he swear to the act?!	1:26:07	1:26:13
Because there is more than that in the act!	1:26:10	1:26:13
Just so.	1:26:13	1:26:14
Sir Thomas, as it says in the preamble...	1:26:14	1:26:17
..the King's former marriage was unlawful, to his brother's widow...	1:26:17	1:26:22
..the "Pope" having no authority to sanction it.	1:26:22	1:26:25
Is that what you deny?	1:26:25	1:26:27
Is that what you dispute?	1:26:32	1:26:34
Is that what you are not sure of?	1:26:40	1:26:44
(GRUNTS)	1:26:48	1:26:49
You insult His Majesty, and council in the person of the lord archbishop	1:26:49	1:26:54
I insult no-one. I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why not.	1:26:54	1:26:59
Your reasons must be treasonable!	1:26:59	1:27:05
Not must be, may be.	1:27:01	1:27:05
It's a fair assumption!	1:27:03	1:27:05
The law requires more. It requires a fact.	1:27:05	1:27:08
Ah. Well, of course I cannot judge your legal standing.	1:27:08	1:27:12
But until I know the ground of your objection...	1:27:12	1:27:15
..I can only guess your spiritual standing too.	1:27:15	1:27:19
Then it should be easy to guess my objections.	1:27:19	1:27:22
Then you do have objection to the act!	1:27:22	1:27:27
We know that, Cromwell!	1:27:24	1:27:27
You don't. You suppose I have objections.	1:27:27	1:27:29
You know I will not swear. For which you cannot lawfully harm me more.	1:27:29	1:27:34
But if you were right in supposing me to have objections...	1:27:34	1:27:38
..and right again in supposing them treasonable...	1:27:38	1:27:41
..the law would let you cut my head off.	1:27:41	1:27:45
Oh. Yes.	1:27:45	1:27:48
Well done, Sir Thomas.	1:27:48	1:27:50
I have been trying to make that clear to his grace for some time.	1:27:50	1:27:54
Oh, confound all this!	1:27:54	1:27:56
I'm no scholar. I don't know if the marriage was lawful!	1:27:56	1:27:59
But dammit, look at these names!	1:27:59	1:28:01
Why don't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship?!	1:28:01	1:28:05
And when we die and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience...	1:28:05	1:28:10
..and I am sent to hell for not doing mine...	1:28:10	1:28:12
..will you come with me, for fellowship?	1:28:12	1:28:15
So those of us whose names are there are damned, Sir Thomas?	1:28:15	1:28:19
I have no window into a man's conscience. I condemn no-one.	1:28:19	1:28:23
-The matter is capable of question? -Yes.	1:28:23	1:28:26
That you owe obedience to your King is not.	1:28:26	1:28:29
Weigh a doubt against a certainty and sign.	1:28:29	1:28:32
Some men think the earth is round. Others think it flat.	1:28:35	1:28:40
It is a matter capable of question.	1:28:40	1:28:43
But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round?	1:28:43	1:28:47
If it is round, will the King's command flatten it?	1:28:47	1:28:51
No. I will not sign.	1:28:51	1:28:54
You have more regard for your own doubt than the King's command!	1:28:54	1:28:58
-I have no doubt. -Of what?	1:28:58	1:29:02
That I will not take this oath.	1:29:00	1:29:02
But why I will not you will not trick out of me.	1:29:02	1:29:06
I might get it out of you in other ways!	1:29:06	1:29:10
You threaten like a dockside bully.	1:29:10	1:29:13
How should I threaten?	1:29:13	1:29:19
Like a minister of state with justice.	1:29:15	1:29:19
Justice is what you're threatened with!	1:29:19	1:29:24
Then I am not threatened.	1:29:22	1:29:24
THEY SIGH	1:29:24	1:29:26
Oh, gentlemen, can't I go to bed?	1:29:29	1:29:32
Aye, the prisoner may retire, as he requests. Unless...	1:29:32	1:29:38
I see no purpose in prolonging this.	1:29:36	1:29:38
Then...	1:29:41	1:29:42
..goodnight, Thomas.	1:29:42	1:29:45
May I have one or two more books?	1:29:49	1:29:58
-Oh, you have books? -Yes.	1:29:52	1:29:58
I didn't know. You shouldn't have.	1:29:55	1:29:58
May I see my family?	1:30:05	1:30:08
No.	1:30:07	1:30:08
Captain!	1:30:15	1:30:18
Master Secretary.	1:30:16	1:30:18
Have you ever heard the prisoner speak of the King's divorce?	1:30:18	1:30:25
Not a word.	1:30:23	1:30:25
If he does, you will repeat it to me.	1:30:25	1:30:29
Of course.	1:30:28	1:30:29
MUSIC AND LAUGHTER OUTSIDE	1:30:29	1:30:32
Rich.	1:30:33	1:30:35
Sir?	1:30:35	1:30:36
Tomorrow, remove the prisoner's books.	1:30:36	1:30:39
Is that necessary?!	1:30:39	1:30:45
The King is becoming impatient.	1:30:41	1:30:45
-With you! -With all of us.	1:30:44	1:30:45
The King's impatience will embrace a duke or two.	1:30:45	1:30:48
Master Secretary?	1:30:57	1:31:01
Well?	1:30:59	1:31:01
Sir Redvers Llewelyn has retired.	1:31:01	1:31:03
The attorney general for Wales. His post is vacant.	1:31:03	1:31:08
You said that I might approach you.	1:31:08	1:31:11
Oh, not now, Rich!	1:31:12	1:31:15
He must submit. He must!	1:31:17	1:31:19
Rack him.	1:31:20	1:31:22
No. The King's conscience will not permit it.	1:31:26	1:31:29
We have to find some other way.	1:31:29	1:31:32
BOLTS ARE DRAWN BACK	1:31:35	1:31:37
Sir Thomas!	1:31:39	1:31:41
Father!	1:31:44	1:31:45
Margaret?!	1:31:45	1:31:46
Father!	1:31:46	1:31:48
Meg!	1:31:48	1:31:50
Meg! For God's sake, they haven't put you in here?!	1:31:50	1:31:55
-A visit! -A brief one, Sir Thomas.	1:31:53	1:31:55
SOBS	1:31:55	1:31:56
Good morning, husband.	1:31:56	1:32:00
Good morning!	1:31:58	1:32:00
Good morning!	1:32:01	1:32:02
Good morning, Will.	1:32:02	1:32:04
DOOR IS LOCKED	1:32:05	1:32:07
This is a hellish place!	1:32:10	1:32:16
Except it's keeping me from you, my dears, it isn't so bad.	1:32:12	1:32:16
It's much like any place.	1:32:16	1:32:20
-It drips. -Yes, the river.	1:32:17	1:32:20
Well, what is it?	1:32:31	1:32:33
Father, come out.	1:32:34	1:32:36
Swear to the act and come out!	1:32:36	1:32:38
Is this why they let you come?	1:32:41	1:32:43
Yes.	1:32:42	1:32:43
Oh.	1:32:44	1:32:46
Meg's under oath to persuade you.	1:32:46	1:32:48
That was silly, Meg!	1:32:49	1:32:52
How did you come to do that?	1:33:00	1:33:02
Father...	1:33:03	1:33:04
God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth.	1:33:04	1:33:09
-Or so you have always told me. -Yes.	1:33:09	1:33:15
Say the words and in your heart think otherwise!	1:33:12	1:33:15
What is an oath but words we say to God?	1:33:15	1:33:17
Listen, Meg...	1:33:24	1:33:26
When a man takes an oath he's holding his own self in his hands.	1:33:26	1:33:30
Like water.	1:33:30	1:33:31
If he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again.	1:33:31	1:33:36
Some men aren't capable of this.	1:33:37	1:33:39
I'd be loath to think your father one of them.	1:33:39	1:33:42
I have another argument.	1:33:45	1:33:48
Oh, Meg!	1:33:47	1:33:48
In any state that was half good, you would be raised up high, not here.	1:33:48	1:33:52
For what you've done already.	1:33:52	1:33:54
Alright.	1:33:54	1:33:56
It's not your fault the state's three-quarters bad.	1:33:56	1:33:59
If you elect to suffer for it, you elect yourself a hero.	1:33:59	1:34:03
Very neat. But see.	1:34:03	1:34:04
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable...	1:34:04	1:34:09
..common sense would make us saintly.	1:34:09	1:34:11
But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity...	1:34:11	1:34:15
.. profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought...	1:34:15	1:34:20
..we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.	1:34:20	1:34:26
But in reason, haven't you done as much as God can reasonably want?!	1:34:29	1:34:34
SOBS VIOLENTLY	1:34:37	1:34:39
Well, finally it isn't a matter of reason.	1:34:39	1:34:43
Finally it is a matter of love.	1:34:43	1:34:45
You are content to be shut up here when you might be at home with us?!	1:34:48	1:34:53
Content?! If they'd open a crack I'd be through it and back to Chelsea!	1:34:53	1:34:58
I haven't yet told you what the house is like without you.	1:35:02	1:35:06
Don't, Meg!	1:35:06	1:35:07
-What we do in the evenings. -Meg!	1:35:07	1:35:10
We don't read because we've no candles.	1:35:10	1:35:13
We don't talk because we're worrying about you!	1:35:13	1:35:16
The King is more merciful than you no rack!	1:35:16	1:35:20
Two minutes, sir.	1:35:19	1:35:20
I thought you'd like to know. What?!	1:35:20	1:35:26
-Jailor! -Sorry, sir. Two minutes.	1:35:22	1:35:26
Listen!	1:35:27	1:35:28
All of you must leave the country!	1:35:28	1:35:35
And leave you here?!	1:35:31	1:35:35
They won't let me see you again.	1:35:32	1:35:35
Go on the same day, but different boats from different ports.	1:35:35	1:35:39
After the trial, then.	1:35:39	1:35:41
There'll be no trial. They have no case.	1:35:41	1:35:44
Do this for me, I beseech you. Will?	1:35:45	1:35:49
Yes.	1:35:48	1:35:49
Margaret?	1:35:49	1:35:50
Alice?	1:35:51	1:35:52
Alice, I command you!	1:35:57	1:36:01
Right.	1:36:00	1:36:01
Oh!	1:36:05	1:36:06
This is splendid.	1:36:08	1:36:10
I know who packed this.	1:36:10	1:36:14
I did.	1:36:12	1:36:14
Yes!	1:36:13	1:36:14
You still make a superlative custard, Alice.	1:36:17	1:36:19
Do I?	1:36:19	1:36:20
It's a nice dress you have on.	1:36:22	1:36:25
Nice colour, anyway.	1:36:26	1:36:28
My God, you think little of me!	1:36:28	1:36:30
I know I'm a fool...	1:36:30	1:36:32
..but I'm not such a fool as here...	1:36:32	1:36:35
..to relish compliments on my custards!	1:36:35	1:36:38
I am well rebuked.	1:36:38	1:36:39
-Alice -No!	1:36:40	1:36:42
I'm sick with fear when I think of the worst they may do to me.	1:36:45	1:36:50
But worse than that would be to go with you not understanding why.	1:36:50	1:36:56
I don't.	1:36:55	1:36:56
If you say you understand, I think I might make a good death if I must.	1:36:56	1:37:03
Your death's no good to me.	1:37:01	1:37:03
You must tell me you understand!	1:37:03	1:37:06
I don't!	1:37:05	1:37:06
I don't believe this had to happen!	1:37:06	1:37:12
If you say that, how can I face it?!	1:37:08	1:37:12
It's the truth!	1:37:11	1:37:12
Ohh! You're an honest woman!	1:37:12	1:37:16
Much good may it do me!	1:37:14	1:37:16
I tell you what I'm afraid of. That when you've gone I shall hate you!	1:37:16	1:37:21
Well... you mustn't, Alice.	1:37:24	1:37:27
You... you mustn't.	1:37:28	1:37:31
Mustn't...	1:37:32	1:37:33
As for understanding, I understand you're the best man I ever met!	1:37:36	1:37:41
And if you go, well, God knows why, I suppose!	1:37:41	1:37:44
Though as God's my witness He's kept deadly quiet about it!	1:37:44	1:37:48
IF ANYONE WANTS MY OPINION OF KING AND COUNCIL, LET HIM ASK FOR IT!	1:37:48	1:37:55
SOBS	1:37:55	1:37:56
CHUCKLES Why, it's a lion I married!	1:37:58	1:38:02
A lion, a lion!	1:38:02	1:38:04
Oh, this is good.	1:38:10	1:38:12
This is very good...	1:38:14	1:38:15
Sorry, Sir Thomas. >	1:38:15	1:38:17
For pity's sake!	1:38:18	1:38:20
Time's up, sir.	1:38:20	1:38:23
-One minute! -I daren't!	1:38:21	1:38:23
Come along, miss.	1:38:23	1:38:24
For heaven's sake!	1:38:24	1:38:27
Don't do that, sir.	1:38:26	1:38:27
Now, madam, don't make trouble.	1:38:28	1:38:31
Come along, please, Lady Alice! >	1:38:34	1:38:37
Take your muddy paws off me!	1:38:40	1:38:42
Filthy, stinking, gutter-fed turnkey! You'll suffer for this!	1:38:42	1:38:48
SOBS VIOLENTLY	1:38:48	1:38:49
Alice!	1:38:49	1:38:50
Goodbye.	1:38:50	1:38:51
You must understand my position, sir.	1:39:06	1:39:09
I'm a plain man. I just want to keep out of trouble.	1:39:09	1:39:12
SOLEMN FANFARE	1:39:15	1:39:17
Dear Lord Jesus, my sweet Saviour, clear my wits.	1:39:20	1:39:26
Dear Lady, Blessed Mother of God...	1:39:26	1:39:29
..comfort my wife and daughter and forgive me for them.	1:39:29	1:39:34
LOUD BUZZ OF VOICES	1:39:58	1:40:00
(VOICES FALL SILENT)	1:40:12	1:40:14
SOMEONE STIFLES A COUGH	1:40:23	1:40:25
Sir Thomas More.	1:40:36	1:40:37
Though you have heinously offended the King's Majesty...	1:40:37	1:40:41
we hope even now you will forethink and repent of obstinate opinion.	1:40:41	1:40:46
You may still taste his gracious pardon.	1:40:46	1:40:49
(WEAKLY) My lords, I thank you.	1:40:49	1:40:51
As for what you may charge me with, I fear from my present weakness...	1:40:51	1:40:57
..that neither my wit nor my memory will serve to make sufficient answer	1:40:57	1:41:03
I should be glad to sit down.	1:41:04	1:41:08
A chair for the prisoner.	1:41:07	1:41:08
CROWD MURMUR SOFTLY	1:41:10	1:41:12
Master Secretary Cromwell, have you the charge?	1:41:20	1:41:27
-I have, my lord. -Then read it.	1:41:25	1:41:27
That you did wilfully and maliciously deny and deprive...	1:41:30	1:41:35
..our liege lord Henry of his undoubted, certain title...	1:41:35	1:41:38
..supreme head of the church in England.	1:41:38	1:41:41
But I have never denied this title!	1:41:43	1:41:47
CROWD SCOFF	1:41:45	1:41:47
At Westminster, Lambeth and Richmond you stubbornly refused the oath.	1:41:47	1:41:54
Was this no denial?	1:41:54	1:41:57
No. This was silence.	1:41:55	1:41:57
And for my silence I am punished with imprisonment.	1:41:57	1:42:01
Why have I been called again?	1:42:01	1:42:06
On the charge of high treason, Sir Thomas.	1:42:03	1:42:06
For which the punishment is not imprisonment.	1:42:06	1:42:09
Death.	1:42:09	1:42:11
Comes for us all, my lords.	1:42:11	1:42:14
Yes, even for kings he comes.	1:42:14	1:42:17
The death of kings is not in question.	1:42:17	1:42:20
Nor mine, I trust, until I am proven guilty.	1:42:20	1:42:23
Your life lies in your own hands, as it always has!	1:42:23	1:42:26
Is that so, my lord? Then I'll keep a good grip on it.	1:42:26	1:42:30
LAUGHTER	1:42:30	1:42:32
LAUGHTER CONTINUES	1:42:35	1:42:37
So, Sir Thomas... you stand on your silence?	1:42:37	1:42:41
I do.	1:42:41	1:42:42
But, gentlemen of the jury, there are many kinds of silence.	1:42:42	1:42:48
Consider first the silence of a man when he is dead.	1:42:48	1:42:52
Suppose we go into the room where he is laid out.	1:42:52	1:42:55
We listen. What do we hear?	1:42:55	1:42:57
Silence.	1:42:57	1:42:59
What does it betoken, this silence?	1:42:59	1:43:03
Nothing.	1:43:03	1:43:04
This is silence pure and simple.	1:43:04	1:43:06
Let us take another case.	1:43:06	1:43:08
Suppose I were to take a dagger and make to kill the prisoner with it!	1:43:08	1:43:13
And my lordships, instead of crying out, maintained their silence!	1:43:13	1:43:17
That would betoken.	1:43:17	1:43:19
It would betoken a willingness that I should do it.	1:43:19	1:43:23
Under law, they would be guilty with me.	1:43:23	1:43:26
So, silence can, according to the circumstances, speak.	1:43:26	1:43:31
Let us consider the circumstances of the prisoner's silence.	1:43:31	1:43:37
The oath was put to loyal subjects...	1:43:37	1:43:40
..and all declared his grace's title to be just and good.	1:43:40	1:43:44
But when it came to the prisoner, he refused!	1:43:44	1:43:47
He calls this silence.	1:43:48	1:43:50
Yet is there a man in this court, is there a man in this country...	1:43:51	1:43:58
..who does not know Sir Thomas More's opinion of this title?!	1:43:58	1:44:02
ALL CRY OUT "NO"	1:44:02	1:44:04
Yet how can this be?	1:44:04	1:44:06
Because this silence betokened...	1:44:06	1:44:10
..nay, this silence was, not silence, but most eloquent denial!	1:44:10	1:44:15
UPROAR	1:44:15	1:44:17
Not so.	1:44:17	1:44:19
Not so, Master Secretary.	1:44:19	1:44:22
The maxim is "qui tacet consentire".	1:44:22	1:44:25
The maxim of the law is "silence gives consent".	1:44:25	1:44:28
If you wish to construe what my silence betokened...	1:44:28	1:44:31
..you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.	1:44:31	1:44:35
Is that in fact what the world construes?!	1:44:35	1:44:38
Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?!	1:44:38	1:44:42
The world must construe according to its wits.	1:44:42	1:44:46
This court must construe according to the law.	1:44:46	1:44:49
LAUGHTER	1:44:49	1:44:52
My lords, I wish to call Sir Richard Rich.	1:44:58	1:45:01
Richard Rich, come into court! Richard Rich!	1:45:02	1:45:06
I solemnly swear the evidence I shall give...	1:45:25	1:45:28
..shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.	1:45:28	1:45:33
-So help me God, sir. -So help me God.	1:45:33	1:45:36
Now, Rich. On the 12th May you were at the Tower?	1:45:37	1:45:44
I was.	1:45:43	1:45:44
For what purpose?	1:45:44	1:45:49
To take the prisoner's books.	1:45:45	1:45:49
-Did you talk with the prisoner? -Yes.	1:45:47	1:45:49
Of the King's supremacy of the church?	1:45:49	1:45:53
Yes.	1:45:52	1:45:53
What did you say?	1:45:53	1:45:55
I said, "Suppose there were an act of parliament that I were King."	1:45:55	1:46:01
"Would not you, Master More, take me for King?"	1:46:01	1:46:04
"That I would," he said.	1:46:04	1:46:06
"For then you would be King."	1:46:09	1:46:11
Yes?!	1:46:13	1:46:15
Then he said, "But I will put you a higher case."	1:46:15	1:46:19
"How if there were an act to say that God should not be God?"	1:46:19	1:46:25
-True. Then you said -Silence!	1:46:25	1:46:30
Continue.	1:46:28	1:46:30
Then I said, "I will put you a middle case."	1:46:32	1:46:36
"Parliament has made our King head of the church."	1:46:36	1:46:39
"Why will you not accept him?"	1:46:39	1:46:41
Well?!	1:46:44	1:46:45
Then he said...	1:46:47	1:46:49
..parliament had not the power to do it.	1:46:49	1:46:53
Repeat the prisoner's words.	1:46:54	1:46:56
He said... parliament had not the competence.	1:46:56	1:47:02
CROWD MURMUR	1:47:02	1:47:04
Or words to that effect.	1:47:04	1:47:06
He denied the title!	1:47:06	1:47:10
He did.	1:47:09	1:47:10
In good faith, Rich, I am sorrier for your perjury than my peril.	1:47:18	1:47:23
Do you deny this?	1:47:23	1:47:26
Yes!	1:47:24	1:47:26
You know that if I were a man who heeded not oaths, I need not be here	1:47:26	1:47:31
Now I will take an oath!	1:47:31	1:47:35
If what Master Rich has said is true...	1:47:35	1:47:39
..I pray I may never see God in the face!	1:47:39	1:47:43
Which I would not say were it otherwise for anything on earth!	1:47:43	1:47:48
Not evidence!	1:47:48	1:47:49
Is it probable... is it probable after so long a silence on this...	1:47:49	1:47:55
..the very point so urgently sought of me...	1:47:55	1:47:58
..I should open my mind to such a man as that?!	1:47:58	1:48:02
Sir Richard, do you wish to modify your testimony?	1:48:03	1:48:08
No, my lord.	1:48:07	1:48:08
Is there anything you wish to take away from it?	1:48:08	1:48:12
No, my lord.	1:48:11	1:48:12
Have you anything to add?	1:48:12	1:48:16
No, my lord.	1:48:14	1:48:16
Have you, Sir Thomas?	1:48:16	1:48:20
To what purpose?	1:48:18	1:48:20
I am a dead man.	1:48:23	1:48:25
You have your will of me.	1:48:29	1:48:31
Then the witness may withdraw.	1:48:31	1:48:34
There is one question I would like to ask the witness.	1:48:39	1:48:44
That's a chain of office you're wearing. May I see it?	1:48:46	1:48:50
The red dragon. What's this?	1:48:57	1:49:03
Sir Richard is appointed attorney general for Wales.	1:49:00	1:49:03
For Wales.	1:49:03	1:49:05
Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world.	1:49:05	1:49:11
But for Wales...	1:49:13	1:49:14
My lords, I have done.	1:49:22	1:49:24
The jury will retire and consider the evidence.	1:49:24	1:49:28
Considering the evidence, it should not be necessary for them to retire.	1:49:29	1:49:34
Is it necessary?	1:49:36	1:49:38
Then is the prisoner guilty or not guilty?	1:49:44	1:49:47
Guilty, my lord.	1:49:51	1:49:53
Sir Thomas More, you have been found guilty of high treason.	1:50:02	1:50:10
-The sentence of the court -My lord.	1:50:07	1:50:10
When I practised the law...	1:50:10	1:50:12
..the manner was to ask the prisoner before pronouncing sentence...	1:50:12	1:50:17
..if he had anything to say.	1:50:17	1:50:19
Have you anything to say?	1:50:19	1:50:23
Yes.	1:50:21	1:50:23
Since the court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how...	1:50:31	1:50:38
..I will discharge my mind on the indictment and the King's title.	1:50:38	1:50:48
The indictment is grounded in an act of parliament...	1:50:49	1:50:55
...which is repugnant to the law of God and His holy church...	1:50:55	1:51:02
-..the supreme government of which no temporal person may by -any -law...	1:51:02	1:51:08
..presume to take upon him!	1:51:08	1:51:10
This was granted by the mouth of our Saviour, Christ Himself...	1:51:10	1:51:18
..to St Peter and the Bishops of Rome...	1:51:18	1:51:22
..whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth.	1:51:22	1:51:31
It is therefore insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it.	1:51:33	1:51:40
And more to this...	1:51:40	1:51:42
..the immunity of the church is promised...	1:51:42	1:51:46
..both in Magna Carta and in the King's own coronation oath.	1:51:46	1:51:51
UPROAR	1:51:51	1:51:52
-Now we plainly see you -are -malicious!	1:51:52	1:51:57
Not so!	1:51:56	1:51:57
I am the King's true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm.	1:51:57	1:52:06
I do none harm.	1:52:07	1:52:09
I say none harm.	1:52:09	1:52:11
I think none harm.	1:52:12	1:52:15
And if this be not enough to keep a man alive...	1:52:16	1:52:20
..then in good faith, I long not to live.	1:52:20	1:52:23
YES!!	1:52:25	1:52:27
It is not for the supremacy that you have sought my blood!	1:52:27	1:52:33
But because I would not bend to the marriage!	1:52:33	1:52:37
HUGE UPROAR	1:52:37	1:52:39
GAVEL POUNDS	1:52:39	1:52:41
YELLING/POUNDING	1:52:41	1:52:43
You have been found guilty of high treason.	1:52:44	1:52:48
The sentence of the court is that you be taken to the Tower...	1:52:48	1:52:53
UPROAR	1:52:53	1:52:54
YELLING ALMOST DROWNS HIS WORDS	1:52:54	1:52:57
..until time and place be appointed for your execution.	1:52:57	1:53:01
PANDEMONIUM	1:53:01	1:53:04
BIRDS TWITTER	1:53:04	1:53:06
I am commanded by the King to be brief.	1:53:17	1:53:19
And since I am the King's obedient subject, brief I will be.	1:53:19	1:53:25
I die His Majesty's good servant, but God's first.	1:53:26	1:53:32
I forgive you, right readily.	1:53:39	1:53:41
Be not afraid of your office.	1:53:46	1:53:49
You send me to God.	1:53:49	1:53:51
You are very sure of that, Sir Thomas...?	1:53:52	1:53:55
He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to Him.	1:53:55	1:53:58
More's head was stuck on Traitor's Gate for a month.	1:54:20	1:54:23
His daughter Margaret removed it and kept it till her death.	1:54:23	1:54:27
Cromwell was beheaded for high treason five years after More.	1:54:27	1:54:31
The archbishop was burned at the stake.	1:54:31	1:54:35
The Duke of Norfolk should have been executed for high treason...	1:54:35	1:54:39
..but Henry died of syphilis the night before.	1:54:39	1:54:42
Richard Rich became chancellor of England, and died in his bed.	1:54:42	1:54:47
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