Bring Up the Bodies

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THOMAS CROMWELL, a blacksmith’s son: now Secretary to the King, Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of Cambridge University, and deputy to the king as head of the church in England.

GREGORY CROMWELL, his son.

RICHARD CROMWELL, his nephew.

RAFE SADLER, his chief clerk, brought up by Cromwell as his son.

HELEN, RAFE’S beautiful wife.

THOMAS AVERY, the household accountant.

THURSTON, his master cook.

CHRISTOPHE, a servant.

DICK PURSER, keeper of the watchdogs.

ANTHONY, a jester.

THOMAS WOLSEY, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: dismissed from office, arrested and died, 1530.

JOHN FISHER, Bishop of Rochester: executed 1535.

THOMAS MORE, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey: executed 1535.

ELIZABETH, ANNE AND GRACE CROMWELL: Thomas Cromwell’s wife and daughters, died 1527–28: also Katherine Williams and Elizabeth Wellyfed, his sisters.

HENRY VIII.

ANNE BOLEYN, his second wife.

ELIZABETH, Anne’s infant daughter, heir to the throne.

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