John Mercer

Also known as: Iohn Mercer / Mercer · Family: Scotland · Role: prisoner · First appears: Richard II 4

Life events

c. 1378 · Mercer captured ships at Scarburgh and carried them away to sea.(Richard II 4 · 📍 Scarburgh)
- “But in the meane time, one Mercer a Scotishman, with certeine saile of Scots, Frenchmen, and Spaniards, came to Scarburgh, and there tooke certeine ships, and led them awaie to the sea”
c. 1378 · John Philpot's fleet defeated Mercer, captured him, and recovered the seized ships.(Richard II 4)
- With: John Philpot
- “the men of warre méeting with the same Mercer, accompanied with his owne ships, and fiftéene other Spaniards that were newlie ioined with him, set vpon them, and so valiantlie behaued themselues, that they tooke the said Mercer with all them that were then in his companie, so recouering againe the ships that were taken from Scarburgh”

enemies with John Philpot (Philpot's fleet attacked and captured Mercer.) “Iohn Philpot that worshipfull citizen of London, lamenting the negligence of them that should haue prouided against such inconueniences, made foorth a fléet at his owne charges, stronglie furnished with men of warre and munition necessarie: the men of warre méeting with the same Mercer, accompanied with his owne ships, and fiftéene other Spaniards that were newlie ioined with him, set vpon them, and so valiantlie behaued themselues, that they tooke the said Mercer with all them that were then in his companie”

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