Cromwell Page #2

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It's only out of respect for your rank

I don't have you arrested.

Captain Lundsford! See that no

unauthorized person enters this area.

Yes, my lord.

Remove these people.

Good morrow to you, squire.

Good morrow, Mrs. Cromwell.

- Have you news of my husband?

- It's in God's hands, Mrs. Carter.

- And in the king's.

- Aye.

Let us pray.

Almighty God, look down upon this

thy house and we, thy humble servants.

Grant us the spirit of thy grace

through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

Who has done this?

- Answer me. Who has done this?

- An edict, squire...

...from the archbishop himself and

by order of the king.

By order of the king.

Is the Church of England

not a Protestant church?

Would the king turn the house

of God into a Roman temple?

- Mr. Cromwell, I beseech you.

- Does the king think that God...

...can be bought with gold,

trinkets and gilded rubbish?

I know only

that I have been instructed.

Has this king

forgotten the Reformation?

- Mr. Cromwell...

- Away with it.

Popish idolatry!

Did the Lord not say unto Moses:

"Thou shalt not make unto thyself any

graven image...

...nor bow down to them"?

Has this king forgotten

the Spanish Inquisition?

Is the Roman Catholic Church

to have a seat in Westminster?

Oh, my God.

My God.

Oh, my God!

Goddamn this king.

King's guard, attention!

Here we are, my lord.

That'll do, damn it.

I'm not a damned cripple.

Me sticks, where are me sticks?

Come over here, boy.

- Here they are, my lord.

- Give me the damned things.

- And who the devil are you?

- Edward Hyde.

Let's in to His Majesty.

Where is he?

- He's at prayers, my lord.

- Aye.

He might do well to pray and all.

We're gonna need some help.

First the Irish and now the Scots.

You doesn't turn your back

on either of them.

Let us give thanks to God, that he

has seen fit to bless this table...

...with the fruits of his bounty. In the

name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, amen.

I did remark with some distress...

...that His Highness, Prince Charles,

was absent from prayers this morning.

He was with me, my lord.

He did pray with you?

In your chapel?

- Yes, my lord.

- I am most displeased.

It is not fitting that a future king...

...should make his devotions

in a Catholic chapel.

Your private beliefs are respected.

But this is a Protestant country...

...and as head of church and state it is

my duty to see that it so remains.

His Highness found the whole business

so boring, my lord, that he fell asleep.

- Didn't you, Charles?

- Yes, madam.

I believe you will find your church

as solid as ever, my lord.

Nevertheless, you will kindly see that

it does not happen again.

Yes, my lord.

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