#it's not a perfect parallel...thomas boleyn had the title longer (six years to cromwell's four)

[fideidefenswhore]

another instance of dissonance that became really apparent in tmatl...when thomas boleyn has the office of lord privy seal, it's a sinecure, hardly mentioned (Monseigneur, more often, i don't actually know where that comes from, tbh...he did have an overbearingly ostentatious title in his early days of parliament-- Thomas Ormond de Rochford Cheval[i]er*, try saying that ten times fast-- but that was before anne's rise, so), when cromwell has the office, it's a signal favour of high esteem and also an anchor of long hours and ceaseless, difficult work.