The two take particular relish in gathering pro-Protestant texts and burning them.
Catherine struggles with maintaining Henry’s faith in her, grappling still with the secret of her great lie.
It costs her again, as she loses yet another child.
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Let’s dive into some bloody good historical observations.
The episode showcases Catherine, Wolsey, and Thomas More as staunch defenders of the faith.
Catherine instead decides they will burn books, which still upsets Lina.
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Catherine was incredibly devout, even zealous.
Interestingly, the statement here that they do not burn heretics in England is true.
It didn’t become an extremely common practice for punishing heretics until Catherine’s daughter Mary took the throne.
Little Mary is enamored of any talk of her father’s grisly punishment of political opponents and heretics.
And while Catherine and Wolsey burn books, she solemnly but enthusiastically throws a book upon the pyre herself.
Just a little religious zealot in the making.
More the torturer?
The ill-fated emotional affair between Maggie Pole and Sir Thomas More comes to an abrupt end this week.
Maggie goes to visit Thomas at his house, perhaps expecting to finally steal a kiss.
The historical record here is foggy.
More himself claimed in his writings, 1533’sApology,that he only used corporal punishment on two heretics personally.
She begs Henry and Catherine to help her seek the ruling from Rome, but they refuse.
Meg also returns to England, alongside Hal Stuart.
In actuality, Meg fought with Henry over her inheritance her entire adult life.
She must be a greedy she-devil.").
So, it’s certainly easy to suppose it could have happened.
Oh, and Hal Stuart, yeah, he really was Meg’s bad choice number three.
But I suspect we’ll get more on that next week.
After secretly helping Catherine to her bedchamber in the middle of a miscarriage, Edward is arrested for treason.
He’s kept in the Tower, where Catherine visits him, calling the charges against him absurd.
Catherine laughs these charges off and accepts Stafford’s apology.
She hopes Henry will too and grant Stafford a last-minute reprieve the day of his execution.
So, Edward loses his head.
Stafford’s former disgruntled household servants testified against him.
Which he was not granted.
