Wolf Hall - Bring Up the Bodies

Cast of Characters
     

     
    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 1527–28: 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: ‘Monseigneur’.
    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 , ‘the 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 ‘gentle 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 ‘Old 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