A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Master Treasurer FitzWilliam: [during a council session regarding a potential uprising] Lord Cromwell's head is their chief demand. They believe my lord has practised some device or sorcery on the King. As they claim the Cardinal did before him.

Thomas Cromwell: Well, I am offended for my prince, that they deem him no more than a child to be led.

King Henry VIII: And, by God, I am offended too! I take it ill to be instructed by the folk of Lincolnshire, one of the most brute and beastly shires in all the realm. How do they presume to dictate which men I keep about me? And who will advise me when Lord Cromwell is put down? Will these rebels do it? Colin Clump and Peter Pisspiddle, and old Grandpa Gaphead and his goat? Let them remember this. When I choose a humble man for my councillor, he is no more humble. I made my minister, and by God I will maintain him. If I say Cromwell is a lord, then he is a lord. And if I say Cromwell's heirs will follow me and rule England, then by God they will do it!