Dramatis Personæ

King Henry VI

King of England

Margaret

Queen to King Henry

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

the King's uncle and Protector

Eleanor

Duchess of Gloucester

Cardinal Beaufort

Bishop of Winchester and great-uncle to the King

The Dukes of Somerset, Suffolk, and Buckingham

English nobles

Lord Clifford and Young Clifford

Lancastrian nobles, father and son

Vaux

an English noble

Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York

claimant to the English crown

Edward and Richard

sons to the Duke of York

The Earls of Salisbury and Warwick

allies of York

Thomas Horner and Peter Thump

an armourer and his apprentice

John Hume and John Southwell

priests

Margery Jourdain and Roger Bolingbroke

a witch and a conjurer

Simpcox and his Wife

impostors

The Mayor of Saint Albans and Sir John Stanley

royal officers

Two Murderers

hired to kill Gloucester

A Lieutenant, a Master, a Master's-Mate, and Walter Whitmore

seamen and pirates

Two Gentlemen

prisoners with Suffolk

Jack Cade

leader of a popular rebellion

George Bevis, John Holland, Dick the Butcher, Smith the Weaver, and Michael

followers of Cade

The Clerk of Chartham

a schoolmaster

Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford

royal commanders

Lords Scales and Saye; Matthew Gough

supporters of the King

Alexander Iden

a Kentish gentleman

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

in England

A Spirit

conjured by Bolingbroke