Confessions of a Medieval Jewish Lawyer

You might not know it, me with my big blue eyes, but my family's stock is all Jewish. My relatives brag our family came over with the Conqueror, but what Jewish family doesn't make the same claim? I know that my namesake, great grandfather Bonvie, lived in this country almost a century ago when Henry III was king.' He ran afoul of the law, renounced his faith, relinquished his chattels and passed as a gentile. That was a half century before King Edward kicked out every apparent Jew," so my family has had a pretty good head start in living with the goyim.