Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 1

• Parliament is shown meeting at Westminster, but they use the same set as they did for the Legantine trial at Blackfriars. Parliament itself looks very small; I'm sure it was made up of more members than are shown in this scene.
• During the Parliament scene, it looks like the members for the House of Commons and the House of Lords are all in the same room, when they would have met seperately. Henry is not sitting under a canopy of estate, which he would have been. There are also several men seated behind him on a raised platform when, in reality, no one would have sat higher than the King.
• Warham says he will put Henry's new title to Convocation (parliament of the church), but then conducts a vote right there. Convication actually met seperately from Parliament so there was actually a lot of running back and forth with messages etc, and many delays.
• The arial view of Rome apparently shows buildings which were not built until much later.
• The pope suggests assasinating Anne Boleyn. No such plot was ever concocted, so the following scenes about it through the series are complete fabrication.
• Cranmer is introduced to George Boleyn when the two would have known each other already, as Cranmer was a friend of the Boleyn family.
• Boleyn is shown hiring Bishop Fisher's cook to poison him. There was actually an incident where poison was put into soup at the Bishop's household, and several poor people supping there died. The Bishop became ill but survived. Thomas More was not dining there at the time, as the series depicts. However, there was no proof that the Boleyn's were behind it. The cook said he'd put it in as a joke. 
•  Thomas More was not present when Katherine left the palace.