Wolf Hall

Thomas takes Helen Barre, a poor, local woman into his household. Helen’s husband beat her and left her with their two young children. Thomas is granted a coat of arms: “azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper” (390). The black birds on the crest were retained from Wolsey’s coat of arms.

Bad weather keeps the king’s entourage in Calais for 10 days. At the end of the 10 days, a French boy seeks out Thomas. The boy’s name is Christophe and he asks to go with Thomas. Thomas is reminded of himself as a kid, and the boy becomes his servant.

Henry and Anne are married in a small, secretive service. At the service, William Brereton threatens Thomas not to mess with his family’s affairs; Thomas tells him it was a mistake to threaten him.

Thomas begins drafting a document defining the king as the “one Supreme Head and King” of the English Empire (396). He dines with Cranmer, newly instated as the Archbishop of Canterbury. He tells Cranmer that Anne Boleyn is already pregnant. The documents Thomas has been drafting will outlaw appealing to the pope in religious and political matters; it will give Cranmer discretion concerning Henry’s suit.