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Once again to Mary Robertson:
after my right harty commendacions,
and with spede.
“Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?”
HENRY VIII
to Eustache Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador
The Cromwell Household
T
HOMAS
C
ROMWELL
, a blacksmith's son: now Secretary to the King, Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of Cambridge University, and deputy to the king as head of the church in England.
G
REGORY
C
ROMWELL
, his son.
R
ICHARD
C
ROMWELL
, his nephew.
R
AFE
S
ADLER
, his chief clerk, brought up by Cromwell as his son.
H
ELEN
, R
AFE'S
beautiful wife.
T
HOMAS
A
VERY
, the household accountant.
T
HURSTON
, his master cook.
C
HRISTOPHE
, a servant.
D
ICK
P
URSER
, keeper of the watchdogs.
A
NTHONY
, a jester.
The Dead
T
HOMAS
W
OLSEY
, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: dismissed from office, arrested and died, 1530.
J
OHN
F
ISHER
, Bishop of Rochester: executed 1535.
T
HOMAS
M
ORE
, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey: executed 1535.
E
LIZABETH
, A
NNE AND
G
RACE
C
ROMWELL
: Thomas Cromwell's wife and daughters, died 1527â28: also Katherine Williams and Elizabeth Wellyfed, his sisters.
The King's Family
H
ENRY
VIII.
A
NNE
B
OLEYN
, his second wife.
E
LIZABETH
, Anne's infant daughter, heir to the throne.
H
ENRY
F
ITZROY
, Duke of Richmond, the king's illegitimate son.
The King's Other Family
K
ATHERINE OF
A
RAGON
, Henry's first wife, divorced and under house arrest at Kimbolton.
M
ARY
, Henry's daughter by Katherine and the alternative heir to the throne: also under house arrest.
M
ARIA DE
S
ALINAS
, a former lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon.
S
IR
E
DMUND
B
EDINGFIELD
, Katherine's keeper.
G
RACE
, his wife.
The Howard & Boleyn Families
T
HOMAS
H
OWARD
, Duke of Norfolk, uncle to the queen: ferocious senior peer and an enemy of Cromwell.
H
ENRY
H
OWARD
, Earl of Surrey, his young son.
T
HOMAS
B
OLEYN
, Earl of Wiltshire, the queen's father: âMonseigneur'.
G
EORGE
B
OLEYN
, Lord Rochford, the queen's brother.
J
ANE
, Lady Rochford, George's wife.
M
ARY
S
HELTON
, the queen's cousin.
And offstage:
Mary Boleyn, the queen's sister, now married and living in the country, but formerly the king's mistress.
The Seymour Family of Wolf Hall
O
LD
S
IR
J
OHN
, notorious for having had an affair with his daughter-in-law.
L
ADY
M
ARGERY
, his wife.
E
DWARD
S
EYMOUR
, his eldest son.
T
HOMAS
S
EYMOUR
, a younger son.
J
ANE
S
EYMOUR
, his daughter, lady-in-waiting to both Henry's queens.
B
ESS
S
EYMOUR
, her sister, married to Sir Anthony Oughtred, Governor of Jersey: then widowed.
The Courtiers
C
HARLES
B
RANDON
, Duke of Suffolk: widower of Henry VIII's sister Mary: a peer of limited intellect.
T
HOMAS
W
YATT
, a gentleman of unlimited intellect: Cromwell's friend: widely suspected of being a lover of Anne Boleyn.
H
ARRY
P
ERCY
, Earl of Northumberland: a sick and indebted young nobleman, once betrothed to Anne Boleyn.
F
RANCIS
B
RYAN
, âthe Vicar of Hell', related to both the Boleyns and the Seymours.
N
ICHOLAS
C
AREW
, Master of the Horse: an enemy of the Boleyns.
W
ILLIAM
F
ITZWILLIAM
, Master Treasurer, also an enemy of the Boleyns.
H
ENRY
N
ORRIS
, known as âgentle Norris', chief of the king's privy chamber.
F
RANCIS
W
ESTON
, a reckless and extravagant young gentleman.
W
ILLIAM
B
RERETON
, a hard-nosed and quarrelsome older gentleman.
M
ARK
S
MEATON
, a suspiciously well-dressed musician.
E
LIZABETH
, Lady Worcester, a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.
H
ANS
H
OLBEIN
, painter.
The Clerics
T
HOMAS
C
RANMER
, Archbishop of Canterbury: Cromwell's friend.
S
TEPHEN
G
ARDINER
, Bishop of Winchester: Cromwell's enemy.
R
ICHARD
S
AMPSON
, legal adviser to the king in his matrimonial affairs.
The Officers of State
T
HOMAS
W
RIOTHESLEY
, known as Call-Me-Risley, Clerk of the Signet.
R
ICHARD
R
ICHE
, Solicitor General.
T
HOMAS
A
UDLEY
, Lord Chancellor.
The Ambassadors
E
USTACHE
C
HAPUYS
, ambassador of Emperor Charles V.
J
EAN DE
D
INTEVILLE
, a French envoy.
The Reformers
H
UMPHREY
M
ONMOUTH
, wealthy merchant, friend of Cromwell and evangelical sympathiser: patron of William Tyndale, the Bible translator, now in prison in the Low Countries.
R
OBERT
P
ACKINGTON
: a merchant of similar sympathies.
S
TEPHEN
V
AUGHAN
, a merchant at Antwerp, friend and agent of Cromwell.
The âOld Families' with Claims to the Throne
M
ARGARET
P
OLE
, niece of King Edward IV, supporter of Katherine of Aragon and the princess Mary.
H
ENRY
, Lord Montague, her son.
H
ENRY
C
OURTENAY
, Marquis of Exeter.
G
ERTRUDE
, his ambitious wife.
At the Tower of London
S
IR
W
ILLIAM
K
INGSTON
, the constable.
L
ADY
K
INGSTON
, his wife.
E
DMUND
W
ALSINGHAM
, his deputy.
L
ADY
S
HELTON
, aunt of Anne Boleyn.
A French executioner.
