Rebels — Minor Figures
22 figures from Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Jack Carter
leader of the tumult · first appears Richard II 16
- Richard II 16 · enemies with Richard II “these malcontents [to wit, Thomas Baker the first moouer but afterwards the principall leaders, Iacke Straw, Iacke Miler, Iacke Carter, Iacke Trewman, and their trecherous traine] met togither in Smithfield, whither also the king repaired in the morning”
Jack Miler
leader of the tumult · first appears Richard II 16
- Richard II 16 · enemies with Richard II “these malcontents [to wit, Thomas Baker the first moouer but afterwards the principall leaders, Iacke Straw, Iacke Miler, Iacke Carter, Iacke Trewman, and their trecherous traine] met togither in Smithfield, whither also the king repaired in the morning”
Jack Trewman
leader of the tumult · first appears Richard II 16
- Richard II 16 · enemies with Richard II “these malcontents [to wit, Thomas Baker the first moouer but afterwards the principall leaders, Iacke Straw, Iacke Miler, Iacke Carter, Iacke Trewman, and their trecherous traine] met togither in Smithfield, whither also the king repaired in the morning”
Thomas Baker
first mover of the tumult · first appears Richard II 16
- Richard II 16 · enemies with Richard II “these malcontents [to wit, Thomas Baker the first moouer but afterwards the principall leaders, Iacke Straw, Iacke Miler, Iacke Carter, Iacke Trewman, and their trecherous traine] met togither in Smithfield, whither also the king repaired in the morning”
John Blenkinsop
rebel · first appears Henry IV 19
- Henry IV 19 · enemies with Henry IV “Herevpon the chiefest of them, to wit, sir Willian Greistoke, sonne to Rafe baron of Greistoke, sir Henrie Beinton, and Iohn Blenkinsop, with foure or fiue other were put to death, and diuerse other were kept in prison.”
Ralph Lumley, Baron Lumley
conspirator · first appears Henry IV 6
- Henry IV 6 · enemies with Henry IV “The conspirators, to wit, the earles of Kent and Salisburie, sir Rafe Lumlie, and others, supposing that the king had not vnderstood their malicious purpose, the first sundaie of the new yeare, which fell in the octaues of the Innocents, came in the twilight of the euening into Windsore with foure hundred armed men”
Sir Henry Bainton
knight · first appears Henry IV 19
- Henry IV 19 · enemies with Henry IV “Herevpon the chiefest of them, to wit, sir Willian Greistoke, sonne to Rafe baron of Greistoke, sir Henrie Beinton, and Iohn Blenkinsop, with foure or fiue other were put to death, and diuerse other were kept in prison.”