Persall

Role: servant · 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: John Ward 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.”

Richard III 3

• with John Ward (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.”

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