"She is in my Lord of Canterbury's hands, and we can leave her there.

I suppose she will be hanged." Ralph waited.

He knew it was no good asking too much.
"What she said of the King's death and the pestilence is enough to cast her," went on Cromwell presently.

"And Bocking and Hadleigh will be in his hands soon, too.

They do not know their peril yet." They went on to talk of the friars, and of the disfavour that they were in with the King after the unfortunate occurrences of the previous spring, when Father Peto had preached at Greenwich before Henry on the subject of Naboth's vineyard and the end of Ahab the oppressor.