Episode 5

Well it has happened. Thomas and his famnily are on the brink of loosing everyhting. More interesting though, Queen Anne has lost her child. Bishop or should i say Cardinal Fisher however, is going to be tried for treason (the crime for refusing to acknowledge the King's Act of Succession).



Sadly however MY true queen, Kathrine, is looking worse and worse, and is still being pressured to take the act. Anne's father is pressuring her to be more careful to not lose the favour fo the king. but it seems it is too late for that. The King, while riding in the forest, comes across a man and his sweetheart, Bess. She is taken by the king however, and let's just say, that they looked like they were having a lot of fun and WORKING hard! In Rome, the Pope and Cardinal Campegio receive word from their agents that the Queen is not pregnant afterall, and that Cardinal Fisher is still to die. However, they feel sad that they shall never be martrys like Saint Peter and the apostles of old.



Anne's sister, Mary, decides to pay a visit to the palace and she has news. She is pregnant and married to a man of little standing and no fortune. Her father and Anne proceed to tell her she has disgraced them both and as such, she has her allowance cut off and is banished from court.

Thomas Cromwell visits the inprisoned Sir Thomas to extract the reason why he is refusing to take the oath; still he remains defiant. It looks like he shall truly die then. At court, Anne dances with Mark Smeaton, and she confides in him that he is the only one who understands her and begs him never to leave her. Later in the night, she cannot sleep, and ends up drinking like a fish. So she sends for her brother and she tells him her fears she believes that Mary is her death since she could return to the throne and realises that She and Katherine do pose serious threat to her and everything that she has worked for.


While Sir Thomas Moore is praying, a servant of Bishop Fisher tells him that the Bishop is to die tomorrow.

On the scaffold, he preaches to the people to listen to the king and speaks his fears of dying and ask for support so he could re-affirm his conviction. He gets emotional but through the cries of the corwd, he accepts his beheading. In rome, as Michalangelo is painting the Sisteen Chapel, the Pope is informed of Fisher's death and is much saddened as he already knows and condems the King.

Margaret, the daughter of Sir Thomas visits her father, and begs him to take the oath, but still he holds true to his faith and refuses to condemn his soul to save his family. Margaret begs for the sake of the entire family and begins to weep. The king then discusses the matter symbolically, with a God - through a crucifix - as to his love and hate of Sir Thomas.

Sir Richard Rich, the Solicitor General, is instructed by the Chancellor to visit Sir Thomas, to deprive him of his last few posessions his books and papers. Though this is not his only purpose.

Henry visits the chambers of Anne, where she is red eyed and depressed. But the King comforts her and tells her that he still loves her. He tells her that everythigng is going to be alright. Sir Thomas is then taken before a parliamentary commission the next day. In the trial, a marvelous debate of legal terms as well as careful wording occurs. But, the trial goes south, when Sir Ricahrd is called to the trial, and confesses that Thomas said that Parliament could never make the King, Head of the Church.

Thomas does however defend himself passionately hoping that they shall all meet in heaven and that the King be sent good council. He is found guilt, and is condemed to death in a most horrific manner. He should be dragged through London to his place of death - he is to be hanged til' half dead, then cut down. He will then have his bowels cut out and burned before him, his head and "privy" parts cut off, and finally, his body divided into four parts.

But when Henry is told of the sentence, in his final act of mercy, he changes the sentence to simple beheading.

On the scaffold, he asks the people to bear witness with him, and that he has died the King's humble servant, but a servant of God first. As the clock strikes 10, Sir thomas streches out his arms and the axe of the executioner comes down. As this happens, the king screams and begins to weep.

The only thing left, of Sir Thomas, is a small silver crucifix that he was holding in his hand. The crucifix falls, only to be covered in blood from Sir Thomas. blood spilled for the church, and blood presumably spilt for God. How many would readily do that for the church?