![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cromwell now has his eyes on a wealthy Benedictine Monastery at Scarnsea and sent one of his men, Commissioner Robin Singleton, to get Abbot Fabian to surrender the property to the King. The rift between the papists and reformers has grown dangerously large since Thomas Cromwell started his dissolution campaign against papist monks by seizing their monasteries all over the country and granting their lands to favored lords of Henry VIII. Set in Tudor England, the series stars Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer who, through commissions from his master Thomas Cromwell, ends up doing more crime/mystery-solving jobs than legal work.Īnne Boleyn has just been executed for infidelity and Queen Jane Seymour has just died of childbirth. ![]()
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