Morgan Williams

Innkeeper and brewer

Married to Kat Williams née Cromwell.

The story so far…

Week 1: Across the Narrow Sea / Paternity

Returning from London in his best coat, he finds his wife nursing Thomas and threatens to fight their father. But like everyone else in Putney, he is afraid of Walter Cromwell.

Week 4: An Occult History of Britain (Part 2)

We catch up with Morgan Williams at a family gathering to remember Liz Cromwell. He “shrinks years by year” and he appears mournful and harassed by time and death. He talks to Cromwell’s eldest daughter, Anne, about the negotiations for peace between France and England, bad news for the wool trade in Antwerp.

Week 5: Make or Mar / Three-Card Trick

We learn that 1529 took Morgan Williams and Kat, a year of “such devastation” that wiped out the Cromwells and Williams family. His sons, Richard and Walter, go to live at Austin Friars, where they take the name of Cromwell.

Week 9: Arrange Your Face (Part 2)

Morgan William told Cromwell about his mother, and how everyone gawped at her when she was pregnant with him. He blushes, “for he is a very proper man.”