It is interesting how she is portraying Sir Thomas' PTSD.  It is an interesting and insightful view point I think.

When it comes to Jack,  I wonder who is teaching whom.

I like that she's wrangling Henry (to be IV) into the tale as a 21-year-old who is the image of his father as a young man. 

Wow Crispin certainly takes a lot of beatings in this book!

I think he took more in Veil of Lies.  The sheriff didn't like him very much.

Now that I think on it...you are right.  It just seems like he took such a walloping here and Jack too!

The beatings in Veil of Lies stuck with me more because it was the sheriff, in his role of sheriff.  What would be a horrific civil rights violation today was not even considered an abuse of power at that point. 

So true...even in this most recent one a common person could get beaten by a noble person for just about anything.  How horrible!