Season 3, Episode 5: Episode 5

S3 E5: November 1537, a gloom hangs over England. Sir Robert Packington, English Parliamentarian and friend of Cromwell, is shot dead in a London street. Cromwell suspects the assassination as a warning to him but refuses to speculate who might be behind it. For the moment, he is more concerned with finding a new bride for his King who has shut himself away in sadness and grief following the death of his much-loved third wife Jane Seymour, mother to his only male heir. The infant Edward is being looked after by his half-sister Lady Mary and several of Jane’s ladies-in-waiting. A new household will be established for the royal heir at Hampton Court to be headed by Lady Bryan. No expense will be spared in his education and comfort; he is after all, a future King. The King meets with Bishop Gardiner (Simon Ward) who has been charged with writing the doctrine of the Church of England in consultation with the rest of the Bishops. As usual, they have failed to agree on anything and Henry, with growing impatience, has taken the matter into his own hands providing six doctrinal questions which will form the basis of his church. After consultation, the Bishops respond to his ‘six articles of faith’ in accordance with Catholic theology. Although the King seems unperturbed by this, Cromwell is most certainly disturbed by this rollback on revolution. What has happened to his Reformation?!