It's embarrassing to see a great series descend into absurdities so excessive, especially having Wolsey commit SUICIDE.
Also, the author of the Beggars' Supplication, a pamphlet that prompted Thomas More's Supplication of souls, is shown as being burnt personally by More, when he died of plague after having been charged by the Bishop of Wareham. Nor could More have exhorted the man being burnt to recant, as he was NOT a priest.
Nor was Henry an advocate of the Protestant doctrines he had condemned only a few years earlier, but rejected the position of the pope to rule over all national churches.
These aren't trivialities, but harm the drama of the actual history. Which is unfortunate, because the first nine episodes were entrancing (mostly).
Also, the author of the Beggars' Supplication, a pamphlet that prompted Thomas More's Supplication of souls, is shown as being burnt personally by More, when he died of plague after having been charged by the Bishop of Wareham. Nor could More have exhorted the man being burnt to recant, as he was NOT a priest.
Nor was Henry an advocate of the Protestant doctrines he had condemned only a few years earlier, but rejected the position of the pope to rule over all national churches.
These aren't trivialities, but harm the drama of the actual history. Which is unfortunate, because the first nine episodes were entrancing (mostly).