The story so far…
Week 16: The Map of Christendom (Part 1)
Martin is thirty, wiry, his fair hair under his cap already sparse: pleasant face with a crinkly smile. His native town is Colchester, his father a tailor, and he learned to read on Wycliffe’s gospel, which his father hid in their roof under the thatch. This is a new England; an England where Martin can dust the old text down, and show it to his nieghbours.
He asks Cromwell to be his child’s godfather. Thomas, if it is a boy. Grace, it is a girl.
Week 17: The Map of Christendom (Part 2) / To Wolf Hall
Martin’s new baby is well. When Cromwell goes to see More, Martin says: “He looks like a little carved hunchback on a bench end.” It is from writing too much. Words, words. Just words.