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20/01/2010 | 18:59:53marcus josephus:
WOLSEY: The King wants a son what are you going to do about it?
SIR THOMAS: I'm very sure the King needs no advice from me on what to do about it!

The entire conversation between Wolsey and More, beginning at 9:20, is quite grave and yet very hilarious. Full of wonderous wit and jibes.
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12/04/2009 | 15:01:50EJGCatholic:
excellent, thanks for your time and energy putting this up. i have movies id love to post, but dont have the computer power or technology! this below is my favourite clip from this movie!
http://www.gloria.tv/?media=12530
pax
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12/04/2009 | 12:02:24Reesorville:
(My description got cut off, here is the rest of the background): Sir Thomas More, was an important minister in Henry's court, and while remaining silent, he became suspected of being at odds with the king's decision. When he was asked to take an oath affirming his loyalty to the Act of Succession which the king had used to have Anne's offspring declared the heirs to the English throne. Thomas refused to take it, because of a clause in the act which attacked the authority of the pope over temporal affairs, which his conscience did not permit him to take: '.... by reason whereof the Bishop of Rome and See Apostolic, contrary to the great and inviolable grants of jurisdictions given by God immediately to emperors, kings and princes, in succession to their heirs, has presumed, in times past, to invest who should please them, to inherit in other men's kingdoms and dominions, which thing we, your most humble subjects, both spiritual and temporal, do utterly abhor and detest' Anyone who refused to take the oath could be charged with treason and executed. More was convicted of treason and was beheaded on July 6th 1535; his head was placed on a pike on London bridge. He was later canonized in the 20th century and is honoured in the catholic church as St Thomas More.
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