Dramatis Personae

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Dramatis Personae

King Henry the Sixth

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, his uncle

Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King

Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York

Edward and Richard, his sons

Duke of Somerset

Duke of Suffolk

Duke of Buckingham

Lord Clifford

Young Clifford, his son

Earl of Salisbury

Earl of Warwick

Lord Scales

Lord Say

Sir Humphrey Stafford, and William Stafford, his brother

Sir John Stanley

Vaux

Matthew Goffe

A Sea-captain, Master, and Master’s-Mate, and Walter Whitmore

Two gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk

John Hume and John Southwell, priests

Bolingbroke, a conjurer

Thomas Horner, an armourer. Peter, his man

Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Alban’s

Simpcox, an impostor

Alexander Iden, a Kentish gentleman

Jack Cade, a rebel

George Bevis, John Holland, Dick the butcher, Smith the weaver, Michael, etc., followers of Cade

Two murderers

Margaret, Queen to King Henry

Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester

Margaret Jourdain, a witch

Wife to Simpcox

Lords, ladies, and attendants, petitioners, aldermen, a herald, a beadle, sheriff, and officers, citizens, ’prentices, falconers, guards, soldiers, messengers, etc.

A spirit

Scene: England.