![]() Sir William Compton is diagnosed on his Warwickshire estate with highly contagious 'sweating sickness', the physician bleeds his back- death comes swift, his body is burned before burial, Thomas Tallis breaks his lute on the fresh grave, then courts Joan Larke. After utterly abject humiliation at Henry's feet, Charles Brandon is allowed to win his return to court. Ann's father Thomas Boleyn tells the incredulous king about the cardinal's stealing confiscated monastical goods. Now the emperor has captured the pope in Italy, cardinal Woolsey promises the king to get a mandate from the cardinals to handle Henry's divorce demand and personally goes to Paris in triumph, to sign a treaty with the French king Francis I.
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