It wasn't there...

[sstormwatch]

The book I mentioned before, where I thought I had finally found that was supposed to include Henry VIII's sumptuary laws... well I finally sat down and was reading through the sections as I had run across the proper dates to look under

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[ciorstan]

The way to possibly find the statutes are to find the actual parliamentary acts that enter statutory law into effect. They're referred to by a system of citation that refers to the year of the monarch's reign, in this instance, the short citation would probably be 1 or 2 Hen VIII (chapter no) and 24 Hen VIII (chapter no.).

I find a big list of statutory English law here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_England_to_1601

And bob's your uncle...

Act of 1533 (24 Henry VIII c 13) repealed 1509's 1 Henry VIII c 14.

All that said, my google-fu comes up with "Rich apparel: clothing and the law in Henry VIII's England" by Maria Hayward... which has a WONDERFUL table comparing all FOUR sumptuary statutes passed by Henry from 1509 through 1533. So whomever you're looking at missed the two statutes Henry passed in 1514 and 1515.

Google Books has the relevant table available starting on page 29, though it is in modernized English.

[sstormwatch]

Thank you!! This does help a lot, but I still want to get a copy of the original writings. Especially since this is the first time I've seen "purple cloth of gold" being restricted, along with purple silk, and crimson and blue velvet.

The articles I've been looking at are much older, as they do mention the other two statutes, but consider them "minor changes" but don't discuss what exactly the changes were.

I didn't realize Hayward's book was available online. It is an expensive book, and with recent hits in my husband's salary, it will be awhile before I buy it, and my local libraries do not have it, nor can they get it via ILL just yet (some ways we may be a big city, but in other ways we are rather backwater).