Thomas Caiton

Family: Percy · Role: esquire · First appears: Henry IV 12

Life events

c. 1403 · The Persies formally accused Henry IV of usurping the crown and murdering Richard II.(Henry IV 12)
- With: Henry IV Hotspur Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Thomas Saluain
- “the earle of Worcester and the lord Persie with their complices sent the articles (whereof I spake before) by Thomas Caiton, and Thomas Saluain esquiers to king Henrie, vnder their hands and seales, which articles in effect charged him with manifest periurie, in that (contrarie to his oth receiued vpon the euangelists at Doncaster, when he first entred the realme after his exile) he had taken vpon him the crowne and roiall dignitie, imprisoned king Richard, caused him to resigne his title, and finallie to be murthered.”

with Hotspur (Caiton was sent as a messenger by Hotspur's faction.) “the earle of Worcester and the lord Persie with their complices sent the articles (whereof I spake before) by Thomas Caiton, and Thomas Saluain esquiers to king Henrie, vnder their hands and seales”
with Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester (Caiton was sent as a messenger by Worcester's faction.) “the earle of Worcester and the lord Persie with their complices sent the articles (whereof I spake before) by Thomas Caiton, and Thomas Saluain esquiers to king Henrie, vnder their hands and seales”
with Henry IV (Caiton delivered the articles to the king.) “the earle of Worcester and the lord Persie with their complices sent the articles (whereof I spake before) by Thomas Caiton, and Thomas Saluain esquiers to king Henrie, vnder their hands and seales”

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