There had been a dramatic scene, Cromwell said, when on the following Sunday a canon of Hereford, Dr.Curwin, had preached against Peto from the same pulpit, and had been rebuked from the rood-loft by another of the brethren, Father Elstow, who had continued declaiming until the King himself had fiercely intervened from the royal pew and bade him be silent.
"The two are banished," said Cromwell, "but that is not the end of it.
Their brethren will hear of it again.

I have never seen the King so wrathful.

I suppose it was partly because the Lady Katharine so cossetted them.

She was always in the church at the night-office when the Court was at Greenwich, and Friar Forrest, you know, was her confessor.

There is a rod in pickle." Ralph listened with all his ears.