It wasn't there...
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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I am fascinated by the personalities of the 16th century and the trivia of their lives. And since I am a legal secretary myself-- which would correspond to, probably, one of Cromwell's clarks (but not analogous in the 16th century since I am actually but a weak and feeble woman) I find their legal process and practice fascinating, too.
One of my bosses lent me a copy of 'Wolf Hall.' She read it as literature, knowing very little other than popular history of the century. I read it as entertainment, knowing all the characters as, pretty much, old friends. Her undergrad degree in literature is from Stanford and she went to Harvard Law; she said she'd found the myriad of characters confusing and loved the occasional turn of phrase. Over the past month we've sort of discussed it in bits snatched here and there while working in a very busy practice... and it's been a deeply enjoyable continuing discussion.
So... her eyes got a little big one day when I casually mentioned that the Chancellor's job, in a nutshell, was the composition of statutory law at the direction of the king and seeing that it passed through Parliament.
I love my job.
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