Almost another John the Baptist?

As played by Michael Grennell

"If a face-to-face meeting was meant to intimidate Throckmorton, Cromwell and the King had misjudged their man.  Sir George . . . turned the King’s talk of his conscientious scruples in an even bolder direction than Temys:  'I feared if ye did marry Queen Anne, your conscience would be more troubled at length, for that it is thought ye have meddled with the mother and the sister.'  Caught badly off guard by this breathtaking directness, the King retorted defensively, 'Never with the mother,' while Cromwell lashed out in an effort to save the situation, 'Nor never with the sister neither, and therefore put that out of your mind.'
     "So Henry had admitted adultery (or, in his eyes, fornication) with Mary Boleyn, though not the Countess of Wiltshire."

     Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer:  a revolutionary life (New York:  Viking, 2018), 167.  From p. 166:  Sir George Throckmorton

came from a family inclined throughout the sixteenth century to express their often sharply contrasting political opinions with pugnacity.  His literary style in letters to Cromwell is marked by its brisk straightforwardness, and he was not afraid to strike out on his own line against Crown interests on matters of local administration:  all around, not a man to be trifled with.

(But this all came from a confession extracted from Throckmorton in the Autumn of 1637.  What is more, Throckmorton's "breathtaking directness" "beyond Parliament" was to cost another, his friend Sir Thomas Dingley, his life (167).)
     Cf. the pugnacity of Throckmorton to that of the Observant Franciscans.