The Prince and the Pauper

Narrator

A first-person frame narrator who says the tale was passed down through generations; the narrator does not otherwise participate in the story.

Edward Tudor

Also known as Edward · Prince of Wales · the Prince · the King · the rightful King of England · Edward of England

The young Prince of Wales and son of Henry VIII, later King Edward VI. Mistaken for Tom Canty after their clothes are exchanged, he is driven from the palace, endures hardship, and ultimately reclaims the throne.

Tom Canty

Also known as Tom · the mock King · King’s Ward

A poor boy from Offal Court whose striking resemblance to Edward leads them to exchange clothes. He is treated as the prince at court and then king; after Edward returns, he becomes the King’s Ward and is cared for with his family.

John Canty

Also known as Canty · John Hobbs · Hobbs

Tom’s violent, drunken father, who mistakes Edward for Tom and drags him away. After killing Father Andrew, he adopts the name John Hobbs and takes Edward with him; he is never heard of again.

Gammer Canty

Also known as Tom’s grandmother

Tom’s cruel, drunken grandmother, who beats him and begs for a living.

Bet

Tom’s fifteen-year-old twin sister. She and Nan are kind-hearted but poor and uneducated.

Nan

Tom’s fifteen-year-old twin sister. She and Bet are kind-hearted but poor and uneducated.

Father Andrew

Also known as the good old priest

A priest turned out of his home by the King and given a meagre pension. He secretly teaches Tom and the girls, gives Tom books and lessons, and is fatally struck by John Canty while trying to protect Edward.

Anne Askew

A woman Tom saw burned at the stake in Smithfield.

Unnamed condemned men

Three men Tom saw burned at the stake alongside Anne Askew.

Unnamed ex-Bishop

A former bishop who preached to Anne Askew and the three men as they were burned.

Unnamed palace soldier

Also known as the sentry · man-at-arms

A palace guard who strikes Tom when he presses close to the gate, then strikes Edward after the boys exchange clothes.

Henry VIII

Also known as the King · Tom’s ‘father’ · the late King

King of England and Edward’s father. Believing Tom to be Edward, he keeps him at court and orders others to conceal what they regard as the prince’s illness; his death makes Tom king.

Lady Elizabeth

Also known as Princess Elizabeth · Queen Elizabeth

Edward’s sister, who patiently helps Tom through court encounters and covers for his lapses. She later becomes Queen Elizabeth.

Lady Jane Grey

Also known as Jane Grey

Edward’s cousin and a young noblewoman. She visits Tom at court, unaware that he is not the prince.

Lord Hertford

Also known as the Earl of Hertford · Tom’s ‘uncle’ · Duke of Somerset · the future great Duke of Somerset · Edward Earl of Hertford · Lord Protector · the Protector

Edward’s maternal uncle and a powerful courtier, later the Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector. He guides and protects Tom at court, carries out Tom’s order to spare the Duke of Norfolk, and interprets Tom’s lapses as illness.

Lord St. John

Also known as the Lord St. John · William Lord St. John · My Lord St. John

A courtier assigned by Henry VIII to help Tom maintain the appearance of being the prince. He later searches for the Great Seal at Edward’s direction and retrieves it from the Milanese armour.

Unnamed Christ’s Hospital boy

Also known as the youth who first spoke

A pupil at Christ’s Hospital who mocks Edward and encourages the other boys to do so.

Unnamed Christ’s Hospital boys

Also known as the boys

Pupils at Christ’s Hospital who mock, beat, and set dogs upon Edward after he claims to be the prince.

Lion

A dog at Christ’s Hospital, called to attack Edward.

Fangs

A dog at Christ’s Hospital, called to attack Edward.

Unnamed London ruffian

Also known as drunken ruffian

A violent man who mistakes Edward for Tom, claims to be his father, and drags him away.

Duke of Norfolk

Also known as Norfolk · the Hereditary Great Marshal of England

A powerful noble imprisoned in the Tower and condemned to execution by Henry VIII. Tom, as king, orders that he be spared.

Duke of Surrey

Also known as Surrey

A great lord Tom recalls seeing delivered into the lieutenant of the Tower’s custody; he is mentioned but does not appear in this passage.

Unnamed palace page

Also known as silken page

A page who announces Lady Jane Grey to Tom and later carries Tom’s order to bring condemned prisoners before him.

Unnamed court physician

Also known as the physician addressed

A royal physician who tells Henry VIII that Tom’s poor language skills suggest his mind is impaired.

Unnamed Lord in Waiting

Also known as one of the lords in waiting

A noble attendant at court who stands with Tom before Henry VIII.

Unnamed royal herald

Also known as splendid official

An official who proclaims the King’s order forbidding discussion of the prince’s supposed madness.

Lord Guilford Dudley

Also known as the Lord Guilford Dudley

A young nobleman announced at court while Tom is receiving instruction; he is not admitted to see Tom.

Sir William Herbert

A courtier who is summoned to conduct Tom to an inner apartment so he can rest.

Unnamed Lord of Berkeley

Also known as Earl of Berkeley · Hereditary Diaperer

The hereditary royal diaperer who fastens a napkin around Tom’s neck at dinner.

Unnamed cupbearer

The prince’s attendant who serves Tom wine and prevents him from pouring for himself.

Unnamed royal taster

Also known as Taster to his highness

An attendant assigned to taste dishes for poison before the prince eats.

Lord d’Arcy

Also known as My Lord d’Arcy · First Groom of the Chamber

A court official present at Tom’s dinner.

Unnamed Lord Chief Butler

A court official who stands behind Tom’s chair at dinner.

Unnamed Lord Great Steward

A court official overseeing the dinner service.

Unnamed Lord Head Cook

A court official overseeing the dinner service.

Unnamed chaplain

A cleric who says grace at Tom’s dinner and later prepares to give the blessing.

Unnamed Lord Chancellor

Also known as the Chancellor

A royal official who reports to Henry VIII that Parliament has confirmed the Duke of Norfolk’s sentence and asks for the Great Seal.

Unnamed palace halberdiers

Also known as advance-guard

The prince’s guards who line the route from the palace gateway to the water’s edge for the procession.

Unnamed prince’s attendants

Also known as attendants in gold-and-crimson liveries

Attendants who lay out the carpet for the prince’s procession.

Unnamed palace ushers

Also known as two ushers with white wands

Two officials who lead the procession from the palace portal.

Unnamed civic mace-bearer

Also known as officer bearing the civic mace

An officer who carries the civic mace in the procession.

Unnamed city sword-bearer

Also known as the man carrying the city’s sword

An official who carries the city’s sword in the procession.

Unnamed Garter King-at-arms

A herald who appears in the procession wearing his tabard.

Unnamed Lord High Chancellor of England

The Chancellor who appears in the procession in a scarlet robe.

Unnamed French ambassador

Also known as the French ambassador

An ambassador whose twelve gentlemen form part of the procession.

Unnamed Spanish ambassador

Also known as the Spanish ambassador

An ambassador whose twelve cavaliers follow the French ambassador’s party in the procession.

Unnamed Lord Mayor

Also known as the Lord Mayor

The Lord Mayor of London, who receives Tom and his companions at Guildhall.

Gog

One of the giant figures who serve as ancient guardians of the City of London and look down on the Guildhall banquet.

Magog

One of the giant figures who serve as ancient guardians of the City of London and look down on the Guildhall banquet.

Unnamed Lord High Admiral

Also known as the Lord High Admiral of England

A senior royal official who appears in the Guildhall pageant and later takes part in dressing Tom.

Miles Hendon

Also known as Sir Miles Hendon · the tall knight of the sword · Earl of Kent · the new Earl

A soldier who defends Edward and becomes his protector and friend, though he first believes the boy’s claims are delusions. Edward makes him a knight and Earl of Kent for protecting him from harm and shame; he is the son of Sir Richard Hendon, brother to Arthur and Hugh, and loves his cousin Lady Edith.

Unnamed Guildhall rioter

Also known as the meddler

A member of the crowd who tries to seize Edward and is struck down by Miles Hendon.

Unnamed King’s messenger

Also known as messenger from the palace

A royal messenger who announces Henry VIII’s death at Guildhall.

Unnamed waterman

Also known as burly waterman

A burly, tipsy waterman who stops John Canty during the celebrations and gives Edward a chance to escape.

Unnamed loving-cup revellers

Also known as other revellers

Celebrants who urge John Canty to drink from the loving-cup, helping Edward slip away.

Unnamed inn servant

Also known as servant · waiter · servitor

A servant at the inn who tells Miles Hendon that a youth came to fetch Edward and that a rough-looking man joined them in the crowd.

Sir Richard Hendon

Also known as Sir Richard

Miles Hendon’s wealthy, generous father and a baronet who lives at Hendon Hall in Kent. Miles has been away from home for years and does not know what has happened to him.

Arthur Hendon

Also known as Arthur

Miles’s elder brother, whom Miles describes as kind and like their father. He was betrothed to Lady Edith, though he loved another woman.

Hugh Hendon

Also known as Hugh · Sir Hugh · the late Sir Hugh

Miles’s younger brother, whom Miles describes as deceitful, greedy, and vicious. He usurps Miles’s title and estates, threatens Lady Edith into denying Miles, later confesses, deserts his wife, and dies abroad.

Lady Edith

Also known as Edith

Miles Hendon’s beautiful, gentle cousin and the daughter and heiress of an earl. She loves Miles; Hugh coerces her into denying him, and after Hugh’s death she marries Miles.

John, King of England

Also known as King John

A former king mentioned in Miles Hendon’s account of the privilege granted to Lord de Courcy.

Lord de Courcy

Also known as De Courcy

A former prisoner of the Tower and famed English champion who helped King John win a dispute with France. He received the privilege of remaining covered in the presence of England’s kings.

Unnamed French champion

The formidable French fighter who fled when he saw Lord de Courcy, causing the French king’s cause to be lost.

Unnamed King of France

Also known as the French king

A monarch mentioned in Miles Hendon’s account of the contest between Lord de Courcy and the French champion.

Unnamed King of Spain

Also known as the Spanish king

A monarch who, with the kings of England and France, is said to have attended Lord de Courcy’s contest.

Unnamed elder sister

Also known as the ‘Bloody Mary’ of history · Lady Mary · Queen Mary · the grimly holy Lady Mary

Edward’s elder sister, who gives Tom a brief, solemn interview after Henry VIII’s death and later argues against his pardons. She becomes Queen Mary.

Unnamed Chief Equerry in Waiting

A royal officer who handles Tom’s clothing during the dressing ceremony and discovers a missing tag on the hose.

Unnamed First Lord of the Bedchamber

A senior attendant who dresses Tom and kneels beside his couch after Henry VIII’s death.

Unnamed First Lord of the Buckhounds

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Second Gentleman of the Bedchamber

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Head Ranger of Windsor Forest

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Third Groom of the Stole

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Chancellor Royal of the Duchy of Lancaster

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Master of the Wardrobe

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Norroy King-at-Arms

A herald who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Constable of the Tower

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Chief Steward of the Household

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Hereditary Grand Diaperer

A court officer who passes garments along the dressing line.

Unnamed Archbishop of Canterbury

Also known as the Archbishop of Canterbury

A senior cleric who reports the executors’ decree on Henry VIII’s funeral, passes garments along the dressing line, and later holds the crown over Tom during the coronation.

John Lord Russell

Also known as Lord Russell

A member of the Council of Executors named in the report presented to Tom after Henry VIII’s death.

John Viscount Lisle

Also known as Viscount Lisle

A member of the Council of Executors named in the report presented to Tom after Henry VIII’s death.

Cuthbert Bishop of Durham

Also known as Bishop of Durham

A member of the Council of Executors named in the report presented to Tom after Henry VIII’s death.

Unnamed secretary of state

Also known as secretary of state

A government official who presents the Council’s order for receiving foreign ambassadors to Tom.

Unnamed royal secretary

Also known as secretary

An official who reads reports about royal household expenses and planned grants of land to court figures.

Sir Thomas Seymour

Also known as Thomas Seymour

Lord Hertford’s brother, whom Henry VIII’s will provides for raising to the peerage.

Unnamed head keeper of the King’s Hose

Also known as Head Keeper of the King’s Hose

A royal official whom the Chief Equerry threatens with the Tower after a tag is found missing from the king’s hose.

Unnamed whipping master

Also known as the master

A teacher who promises to whip Humphrey Marlow because the prince made mistakes in his Greek lesson.

Humphrey Marlow

Also known as Humphrey · Tom’s whipping-boy · Sir Humphrey Marlow · old Sir Humphrey

Edward’s whipping-boy, who takes punishment when the prince errs in his lessons. He gives Tom useful information about court life, and Tom makes his office hereditary.

Unnamed Master of the Royal School

Also known as the master

The teacher who instructs Edward in Greek and orders Humphrey whipped when the prince makes mistakes.

Unnamed condemned poisoner

Also known as the prisoner · the stranger who saved Giles Witt

A man condemned to be boiled alive for allegedly poisoning a sick subject. Tom recognizes him as the stranger who rescued Giles Witt from drowning and frees him after hearing that the evidence is weak.

Unnamed woman condemned for witchcraft

Also known as the elder culprit · goodwife

A poor woman condemned to hang for allegedly making a pact with the Devil and causing a storm. Tom believes her innocent and pardons her and her daughter.

Unnamed nine-year-old girl

Also known as the child · the woman’s child

The daughter of the woman accused of witchcraft, condemned alongside her mother. Tom pardons them both.

Unnamed under-sheriff

Also known as sheriff

The officer who brings the condemned prisoners before Tom and explains the cases against them.

Unnamed sick man of Islington

Also known as the sick man

A subject whose death by poison is attributed to the condemned man, though the evidence is circumstantial.

Unnamed witch who foretold the poisoning

Also known as the witch

A woman said to have predicted that the sick man would die by poison at the hands of a brown-haired stranger; she is reported to have left the village.

Unnamed foreign ambassadors

Also known as the ambassadors

Foreign envoys who attend Tom’s formal audience on the third day of his kingship.

Unnamed captain of the guard

Also known as captain

The officer whom Hertford’s page is sent to with orders to halt the crowd.

Unnamed condemned woman and child

A collective reference to the two prisoners brought before Tom; the woman and her daughter are individually identified elsewhere in this passage.

Unnamed disguised youth

Also known as Hugo

A youth who leads Edward away from Southwark under the false pretense of helping him find Hendon. He is John Canty’s accomplice and later tries to make Edward assist his begging scams.

Unnamed Ruffler

Also known as the Ruffler · chief

The leader of John Canty’s band of vagabonds. He restrains Canty from harming Edward and protects the boy from the gang’s violence.

Unnamed tinker

Also known as the humorous tinker

A member of the vagabond gang who coins the mocking title “Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves” for Edward and leads the mock coronation.

Bat

A member of the vagabond gang called upon to sing with Dick and Dot-and-go-One.

Dick

A member of the vagabond gang called upon to sing with Bat and Dot-and-go-One.

Dot-and-go-One

A member of the vagabond gang who pretends to have a wooden leg and sings with Bat and Dick.

Wen

Also known as the Wen

A former member of the vagabond gang, remembered as capable and brave. He was killed in a brawl.

Black Bess

A vagabond woman and the Wen’s former partner, who is away travelling with part of the gang.

Unnamed witch burned at the stake

Also known as the Ruffler’s former acquaintance

A fortune-teller in the Ruffler’s circle who was burned as a witch after gaining a reputation for palmistry. The passage does not establish whether she is the same woman as Yokel’s mother.

Yokel

A former prosperous farmer turned vagabond after losing his land and being punished for begging. His wife Mary died after being whipped, his children starved, and his mother was burned as a witch.

Burns

A member of the vagabond band who displays scars and mutilations inflicted under England’s harsh laws against the poor.

Hodge

A member of the vagabond band who displays scars and mutilations inflicted under England’s harsh laws against the poor.

Mary

Also known as Yokel’s wife

Yokel’s wife, who was whipped for begging and died from her injuries.

Unnamed farmer

Also known as the farmer

A farmer whose household is forced to feed and endure the vagabond gang’s abuse. He was branded and sold as a slave, but Edward later finds him and helps him toward a comfortable livelihood.

Unnamed farmer’s wife

Also known as housewife

The wife of a farmer whose home is invaded by the gang; she is mocked and harassed while serving them food.

Unnamed farmer’s daughters

The daughters of the farmer, whom the gang harasses; one is buttered on the head after resisting their advances.

Unnamed farmer’s sons

The farmer’s sons, who are pelted with bones and vegetables by the vagabonds.

Unnamed benevolent stranger

Also known as the gentleman

A kind passerby whom Hugo deceives with a staged fit to solicit money; Edward exposes the fraud.

Unnamed farmhouse widow

Also known as the goodwife · the children’s mother

A poor widow who feeds Edward and gives him work, believing he is a wandering, mentally ill boy who once served in a palace kitchen.

Margery

One of the two little girls who find Edward in a barn and accept his claim to be the King. She and her sister bring him to their widowed mother for breakfast.

Prissy

One of the two little girls who find Edward in a barn and accept his claim to be the King. She and her sister bring him to their widowed mother for breakfast.

Unnamed farm labourers

Two workers who enter the barn where Edward shelters for the night.

Unnamed holy hermit

Also known as the hermit

An aged man living in a forest hut who mistakes Edward for a king who has renounced the world and welcomes him as a holy seeker. He claims to be an archangel destined to be pope, then binds Edward and nearly kills him in revenge for Henry VIII’s suppression of his religious house.

Unnamed calf

A calf sleeping in the barn with Edward; its touch frightens him in the dark, and its warmth comforts him through the night.

Unnamed rat

A rat that sleeps in Edward’s clothing overnight; he lets it go unharmed.

Unnamed witch’s mother

Also known as Yokel’s mother

Yokel’s elderly mother, who earned a living nursing the sick and was burned as a witch after one patient died. Her identity is not established as the same as the witch mentioned by the Ruffler.

Blake Andrews

Also known as Andrews · old Andrews

An old, loyal former servant in the Hendon family household. He recognizes Miles in prison, secretly brings food and news to him and Edward, and reports the events that led to Hugh and Edith’s marriage.

Unnamed constable

Also known as officer

A local officer who takes Edward into custody after Hugo frames him for stealing a pig. Miles Hendon persuades him to let Edward escape by threatening to expose his theft and false testimony.

Unnamed justice of the peace

Also known as the judge · his worship

The local magistrate who convicts Edward of stealing a pig and sentences him to a short jail term and public flogging. He compassionately warns the accuser that the theft could carry a death sentence; Edward later shows him favour, and he becomes a respected public figure.

Unnamed woman carrying a pig

Also known as goodwife · the woman

A woman whose pig is stolen by Hugo, who frames Edward for the theft. She initially testifies that the pig is worth more than the threshold for hanging, then lowers its stated value to save Edward.

Unnamed blacksmith

A brawny blacksmith in the crowd who reaches to punish Edward after the pig theft accusation; Miles Hendon drives him off with the flat of his sword.

Unnamed man called the slave

Also known as the slave

A member of the vagabond gang who had condemned England’s laws against the poor. He interrupts Hugo and the tinker as they try to make a false sore on Edward’s leg.

Unnamed two Baptist women

Also known as the women · Edward’s comforters

Two women imprisoned for being Baptists who comfort Edward and earn his affection. They are taken to be burned at the stake; the King later provides homes for their daughters.

Unnamed daughters of the Baptist women

Also known as two young girls

The two young daughters of the imprisoned Baptist women. They rush to their mothers at the stake, and one is briefly caught in flames while resisting the officers; Edward later provides them good homes.

Unnamed clergyman at the execution

Also known as clergyman

A clergyman who prays as the two Baptist women are burned at the stake.

Unnamed kneeling execution assistant

Also known as kneeling man

A man who lights the faggots around the two Baptist women at the stake.

Unnamed jailer

Also known as jailer

The jailer who oversees the crowded prison, brings Blake Andrews to identify Miles, and later takes the prisoners into the yard for the executions.

Unnamed prison prisoners

Also known as the prisoners

A crowd of jailed people accused of minor offences, who share a room with Edward and Miles and include several individually described prisoners.

Unnamed half-witted woman accused of stealing cloth

Also known as the poor half-witted woman · the woman who stole a remnant of cloth

A mentally impaired woman convicted of stealing a small length of cloth from a weaver and sentenced to hang. Edward later saves her.

Unnamed man accused of horse theft and deer killing

A prisoner who says he was acquitted of stealing a horse but was then convicted of killing a deer in the King’s park and sentenced to hang. Edward is too late to save him.

Unnamed tradesman’s apprentice

Also known as the youth · the boy who had captured the stray falcon

A young apprentice sentenced to death after taking home a hawk he found escaped from its owner. Edward saves him from the gallows.

Unnamed old lawyer

Also known as the lawyer

A lawyer who was punished for pamphlets accusing the Lord Chancellor of injustice and faces further mutilation, a large fine, and life imprisonment. He shows Edward his mutilated ears; Edward later releases him and remits his fine.

Unnamed latecomer who sneered

Also known as late comer

A passerby who, unaware that the crowd has stopped abusing Miles Hendon, sneers at the supposed impostor and is knocked down and kicked out.

Unnamed King’s Guard officer

Also known as officer of the King’s Guard

A guard who forcibly removes Tom’s mother from the coronation procession after she embraces him.

Unnamed child welcoming the King

Also known as fair child

A richly dressed child on a stage in Fenchurch Street who recites a welcome to Tom during the recognition procession.

Elizabeth of York

A figure represented in the city pageant as an immediate royal progenitor of Edward VI, seated in a white rose beside Henry VII.

Henry VII

A former king represented in the city pageant as an immediate royal progenitor of Edward VI, seated in a red rose beside Elizabeth of York.

Jane Seymour

Edward VI’s mother, represented beside Henry VIII in the city pageant.

Unnamed special envoy from the Orient

Also known as special envoy

A lavishly jewelled envoy from a distant eastern country who appears with the foreign ambassadors at the coronation.

Unnamed officer leading the palace halberdiers

Also known as officer

An officer who arrests Miles Hendon near the palace, then brings him before Edward after reading the letter that identifies him as a claimant’s associate.

Unnamed gorgeous palace official

Also known as gorgeous official

A senior palace attendant who receives Miles Hendon after his arrest and conducts him into the royal presence.

Unnamed citizen on London Bridge

Also known as citizen

A reveller who stumbles over a fallen sculpted head on London Bridge, setting off a chain of blows that grows into a riot.

Unnamed man struck on London Bridge

A reveller struck after a citizen stumbles into him; the scuffle contributes to the London Bridge riot that separates Edward and Miles.

Unnamed man who knocks down the citizen

A reveller who knocks down the citizen after being struck on London Bridge.

Unnamed friend of the knocked-down man

A reveller who lays out the man who had knocked down the citizen, escalating the London Bridge fight.

Unnamed peeress

Also known as the first peeress

The first noblewoman to enter the Abbey transept on coronation morning; officials seat her and arrange her train and coronet.

Unnamed scarlet-and-velvet official

Also known as official clad in satins and velvets

An official who escorts peeresses to their places in Westminster Abbey and arranges their trains and coronets.

Unnamed King’s Guard detachment

Also known as steel-clad detachment of the Guard

A contingent of guards that takes its place on the coronation platform.

William Prynne

A learned barrister mentioned in an editorial note as having been punished for pamphlets criticizing Archbishop Laud; he is not part of the story’s action.

Archbishop Laud

Also known as Laud

A church official mentioned in an editorial note as having prosecuted William Prynne; he does not appear in the story’s action.

James I

A later English king mentioned in the closing account of Miles Hendon’s family privilege; a descendant of Miles exercises it at his accession.

Charles I

A later English king before whom a descendant of Miles Hendon asserts the family privilege of sitting in the sovereign’s presence.

Charles II

A later English king mentioned in an editorial note about whipping-boys; he does not appear in the story’s action.

Unnamed descendant of Miles Hendon

Also known as the Kent of that day

A later Earl of Kent who asserts the family privilege of sitting in the sovereign’s presence before Charles I, securing its confirmation.

Unnamed last Earl of Kent

The final Earl in Miles Hendon’s line, who dies fighting for the King in the wars of the Commonwealth; his death ends the family privilege.

Bishop Ridley

Also known as Ridley

A bishop mentioned in an editorial note about the founding of Christ’s Hospital; he helps establish the institution and is depicted kneeling before Edward VI.

Unnamed Lord Mayor in the Christ’s Hospital painting

The Lord Mayor depicted kneeling before Edward VI in a painting described in an editorial note.

Unnamed Chancellor in the Christ’s Hospital painting

A chancellor depicted holding seals beside Edward VI in a painting described in an editorial note.

Joshua Barnes

An eminent Bluecoat boy, editor of Anacreon and Euripides.

Jeremiah Markland

An eminent Bluecoat boy and critic, particularly of Greek literature.

Camden

An antiquary listed among the eminent Bluecoat boys.

Bishop Stillingfleet

A bishop listed among the eminent Bluecoat boys.

Samuel Richardson

A novelist listed among the eminent Bluecoat boys.

Thomas Mitchell

A translator of Aristophanes listed among the eminent Bluecoat boys.

Thomas Barnes

A long-serving editor of the London Times listed among the eminent Bluecoat boys.

Coleridge

A former Bluecoat boy listed among the eminent alumni.

Charles Lamb

A former Bluecoat boy listed among the eminent alumni.

Leigh Hunt

A former Bluecoat boy listed among the eminent alumni.

Queen Victoria

A monarch who witnessed the Christ’s Hospital public supper in 1845.

Prince Albert

Queen Victoria’s consort, who witnessed the Christ’s Hospital public supper in 1845.

Unnamed Grecian

Also known as head boy

A senior Christ’s Hospital pupil who reads prayers from the pulpit at the public supper.

Unnamed Governors of Christ’s Hospital

Also known as Governors

The institution’s governors, who attend the public supper; the passage says the Sovereign and Prince of Wales head the group.

Unnamed Sovereign

Also known as the Sovereign

The reigning sovereign, identified as head of the Governors of Christ’s Hospital.

Unnamed Prince of Wales

Also known as the Prince of Wales

The Prince of Wales, identified as one of the heads of the Governors of Christ’s Hospital.