Robin Hood, Series 1 (2006)

[As Bendedict Giddens, Will and Luke Scarlett and Allan-a-Dale are about to hang]

Sheriff:
May the souls--

Jeffrey:
[disguised as a priest] WAIT!

Sheriff:
[exasperated] "Oh, nah, nah, nah! Please don't kill my brother, my little baby, my INBRED COUSIN!"

Jeffrey:
On behalf of Anthony, our bishop, I claim benefit of clergy for these men. They cannot hang.

Sheriff:
These are not holy men. These people cannot plead the cloth. Get on with it.

Jeffrey:
I came last night to administer their last rites.

Sheriff:
... So?

Jeffrey:
And each one came to God through me, repenting their sins and asking to take the cloth. I felt duty-bound to consult the bishop, and he in turn confers status of novice unto each man.

Sheriff:
Shut up.

Jeffrey:
[reading from a piece of parchment] "I, Anthony, very Reverend Vicar Apostolic, hereby confer-"

Sheriff:
SHUT UP!!!! [turns to Canon Richard] Is this possible?

Canon Richard:
They could not have become novices overnight.

Jeffrey:
They are become postulants!... Novice novices, if you like. And so are under the protection of the Church!

[Awkward silence]

Sheriff:
Novice novices! How novel. Well, [points to the gallows] hang them [points to Jeffrey] and arrest him.