John Ward

Also known as: Iohn Ward · Role: chamberer · First appears: Richard III 3

Life events

c. 1483 · Persall secretly offered Richard III his master's support and a thousand men.(Richard III 3 · 📍 Yorke)
- With: Persall Richard III
- “And the duke of Glocester aduertised of his desire, caused him in the dead of the night (after all other folke auoided) to be brought vnto him in his secret chamber, where Persall (after his maisters recommendations) shewed him that he had secret sent him to shew him, that in this new world he would take such part as he would, & wait vpon him with a thousand good fellowes, if néed were.”

sworn: Richard III (John Ward is identified as Richard's chamberer when Richard was duke of Gloucester.) “one Persall his trustie seruant, who came to Iohn Ward a chamberer of like secret trust with the duke of Glocester”
employer: Richard III “This duke (as I haue for certeine béene informed) as soone as the duke of Glocester, vpon the death of king Edward, came to Yorke, and there had solemne funerall seruice for king Edward, sent thither in the most secret wise he could, one Persall his trustie seruant, who came to Iohn Ward a chamberer of like secret trust with the duke of Glocester, desiring that in the most close and couert maner, he might be admitted to the presence and spéech of his maister.”
with Persall (Persall came to John Ward seeking admission to Richard's presence.) “one Persall his trustie seruant, who came to Iohn Ward a chamberer of like secret trust with the duke of Glocester, desiring that in the most close and couert maner, he might be admitted to the presence and spéech of his maister.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.