Dramatis Personæ. KING Henry VI. [King Henry the Sixth] Humphry Duke of Gloucester, Uncle to the King. Cardinal Beauford, Bp. of Winchester, Uncle to the King. Duke of York [Plantagenet], pretending to the Crown. Duke of Buckingham, Of the King's Party. Duke of Somerset, Of the King's Party. Duke of Suffolk, Of the King's Party. Earl of Salisbury, Of the York Faction, Earl of Warwick, Of the York Faction, Lord Clifford, of the King's Party. Lord Say. Lord Scales, Governor of the Tower. Sir Humphry Stafford [Sir Humphrey Stafford]. Young Stafford [William Stafford], his Brother. Alexander Iden, a Kentish Gentleman. Young Clifford, Son to the Lord Clifford. Edward Plantagenet, Son to the Duke of York. Richard Plantagenet, Son to the Duke of York. Vaux, A Sea Captain [Lieutenant], and Walter Whitmore—Pirates. A Herald. Hume and Southwel [Southwell], two Priests. Bolingbrook [Bolingbroke], an Astrologer. A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch. Thomas Horner, an Armourer. Peter, his Man. Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of St. Albans. Simpcox, an Impostor. Jack Cade, Bevis [George], Michael, John Holland, Dick the Butcher, Smith the Weaver, and several others, Rebels. Margaret, Queen to King Henry VI. secretly in Love with the Duke of Suffolk. Dame Eleanor, Wife to the Duke of Gloucester. Mother Jordan [Margery Jourdain], a Witch employ'd by the Dutchess of Gloucester. Wife to Simpcox. Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Messengers, and other Attendants. [Petitioner 1], [Petitioner 2], [Messenger], [Townsman], [Beadle], [Neighbour 1], [Neighbour 2], [Neighbour 3], [Prentice 1], [Prentice 2], [Servant], [Sir John Stanley], [Murderer 1], [Murderer 2], [Gentleman 1], [Master], [Master's Mate], [Gentleman 2], [Messenger 2], [Soldier], [Commons] The SCENE is laid very dispersedly in several Parts of England.

1 ^noteThe Second Part of King HENRY VI.

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