The Spanish Princess (TV Series)

The Battle for Harry (2019)

Morgan Jones: Sir Edmund Dudley

Quotes 

• Sir Richard Pole : It's just talk. We have had fifteen years of peace. No one would now turn their coats to York to wade through blood again.

  Margaret Beaufort : [Margaret enters]  I've learned the name of our tormenter, the phantom challenger raising men in France. Edmund de la Pole, your own wife's cousin.

  Sir Richard Pole : May I see?

  [someone says "De la Pole"] 

  Sir Richard Pole : My wife has had no contact with him.

  Margaret Beaufort : It appears that he is being sheltered by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian himself, who will not hand him over, despite the King's entreaties that he should, because Maximillian fears that we would kill the rat.

  Edward Stafford : Of course we would, the last York heir standing.

  Margaret Beaufort : We must build our armies to withstand a York invasion.

  Edward Stafford : An assault against the throne, backed by the wealth of the Habsburg Empire.

  Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire : My lady, the treasury is depleted, and our war chests are empty.

  Margaret Beaufort : [Margaret calls Edmund Dudley, he enters]  I'm sure you all know Edmund Dudley, who has served the city as a gifted lawyer and is now the Speaker of the House of Commons. He shows his loyalty by offering his services to find ways to fill our coffers.

  Sir Edmund Dudley : There are places to cut spending, but that alone will not yield the kind of revenue that we need. We will raise the taxes on the most popular items, like wool and leather, and we shall create new fines for things like dogs in church, singing in the street, and impersonating the King.

  Sir Richard Pole : All ideas that will be effective at stirring resentment on the streets.

  Sir Edmund Dudley : If it's soldiers that we need, why not begin by conscripting those who came here with the Spanish princess, in lieu of half the dowry that was never paid?

  Margaret Beaufort : Not in lieu, in part payment, and a small part.