The attendant is present to indicate the status of the Spanish Ambassador.
Signor Chapuys, the Spanish Ambassador, at first glance appears to do little more in the play than walk on at key moments to testify to (he piety and integrity of Sir Thomas More. He pays ihe boatman a few coins for revealing More's pious habits and he attempts to deliver a message from the King of Spain expressing Ihe Catholic King's approval of More's resistance to Cromwell and the Reformation movement. More realizes that even reading the missive will be taken as evidence of treason, so he refuses to accept the envelope. Chapuys is flabbergasted because he has misread More's moral stance as a political one; this scene thus alerts the viewer to another of.....
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