Roger Onleie

First appears: Henry VI 66

Henry VI 66

• with Eleanor Cobham (Roger Onleie was accused of practising sorcery with Eleanor Cobham.) “Roger Onleie, borne in the west countrie (as Bale thinketh) was accused of treason, for practising with the ladie Eleanor Cobham, by sorcerie to make the king awaie, and was thereof condemned, and died for it, though he were innocent thereof, as some haue thought”
• allies with Eleanor Cobham (The passage alleges that they practised sorcery together.) “was accused of treason, for practising with the ladie Eleanor Cobham, by sorcerie to make the king awaie”
• enemies with Henry VI (The king is identified by the surrounding passage as Henry VI; the treasonous act is reported as an accusation.) “was accused of treason, for practising with the ladie Eleanor Cobham, by sorcerie to make the king awaie”

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