KING Henry the Sixth. Humphry Duke of Gloucester, Uncle to the King. Cardinal Beauford, Bishop of Winchefter, great Uncle to the King. Duke of York pretending to the Crown. Duke of Somerset, Duke of Suffolk, Earl of Warwick, of } of the King's Party. } of the York Faction. Lord Clifford, of the King's Party. Lord Scales, Governor of the Tower. Sir Humphry Stafford. Young Stafford, his Brother. Alexander Iden, a Kentish Gentleman. Young Clifford, Son to the Lord Clifford. Edward Plantagenet, Richard Plantagenet, } Sons to the Duke of York. Vaux, a Sea Captain, and Walter Whitmore, Pirates A Herald. Hume and Southwel, two Priests. Bolingbrook, an Aftrologer. A Spirit, attending on Jordan the Witch. Peter, his Man. Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of St. Albans. Jack Cade, Bevis, Michael, John Holland, Dick the Dame Eleanor, Wife to the Duke of Gloucester. Wife to Simpcox. Petitioners, Aldermen, a Beadle, Sheriff and Officers, Citizens, with Faulconers, Guards, Mejengers, and other Attendants. The SCENE is laid very difperfedly in feveral Parts of England. King HENRY VI. ACT I. SCENE The PALACE. Flourish of Trumpets: then, Hautboys. I. Enter King Henry, Duke Humphry, Salisbury, Warwick, and Beauford on the one fide: The Queen, Suffolk, York, Somerset, and Buckingham on the other. A SUFFOLK. S by your high imperial Majesty 2 I had in charge at my depart for France, * The fecond part, &c.] This and the third part were firft written under the title of the Contention of York and Lancaster, printed in 1600, but fince vaftly improved by the author. POPE. The fecond Part of K. Henry VI.] This and the Third part of King Henry VI. contain that troublesome Period of this Prince's Reign, which took in the whole Contention betwixt the two Houfes of York and Lancaster: And under that title were thefe two Plays first acted and publifhed. The prefent Scene opens with K. Henry's Marriage, which was in the 23d Year of his Reign; and clofes with the firft Battle fought at St. Albans, and won by the York Faction, in the 33d Year of his Reign. So that it comprizes the Hiftory and Tranfactions of 10 Years. THEOBALD. 2 As by your high, &c.] Vide Hall's Chronicle, Fol. 66. Year 23. Init. РОРЕ, It is apparent that this play begins where the former ends, and continues the feries of tranfactions, of which it prefuppofes the first part already known. This is a fufficient proof that the fecond and third parts were not written without dependance on the first, tho' they were printed as containing a complete period of history. |