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“On Easter Sunday, William Peto, head of the Observants, the court’s favourite order of friars, had preached a sermon telling Henry to his face that he would end up like the Old Testament tyrant Ahab (though he left unspoken the implication that Anne Boleyn was Jezebel). When, the following Sunday, a royal chaplain was put up to reply, he was barracked by another of the friars and, for good measure, hauled before convocation for breaching ecclesiastical discipline - a convocation which already had its claws into Hugh Latimer, one of Henry’s favourite clerics.”
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives
