CHANCELLOR.
Speak to the business, master secretary.
Why are we met in council?
CROMWELL.
Please your honours,
The chief cause concerns his Grace of Canterbury.
GARDINER.
Has he had knowledge of it?
CROMWELL.
Yes.
NORFOLK.
Who waits there?
KEEPER.
Without, my noble lords?
GARDINER.
Yes.
KEEPER.
My lord Archbishop,
And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.
CHANCELLOR.
Let him come in.
KEEPER.
Your Grace may enter now.