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    DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

  • King Edward the Confessor.
  • Stigand, created Archbishop of Canterbury by the Antipope Benedict.
  • Aldred, Archbishop of York.
  • The Norman Bishop of London.
  • Harold, Earl of Wessex, afterwards King of England, Son of Godwin.
  • Tostig, Earl of Northumbria, Son of Godwin.
  • Gurth, Earl of East Anglia, Son of Godwin.
  • Leofwin, Earl of Kent and Essex, Son of Godwin.
  • Wulfnoth, Son of Godwin.
  • Count William of Normandy.
  • William Rufus.
  • William Malet, a Norman Noble.
  • Edwin, Earl of Mercia, Son of Alfgar of Mercia.
  • Morcar, Earl of Northumbria after Tostig, Son of Alfgar of Mercia.
  • Gamel, a Northumbrian Thane.
  • Guy, Count of Ponthieu.
  • Rolf, a Ponthieu Fisherman.
  • Hugh Margot, a Norman Monk.
  • Osgod and Athelric, Canons from Waltham.
  • The Queen, Edward the Confessor's Wife, Daughter of Godwin.
  • Aldwyth, Daughter of Alfgar and Widow of Griffyth, King of Wales.
  • Edith, Ward of King Edward. Courtiers, Earls and Thanes, Men-at-Arms, Canons of Waltham, Fishermen, etc.
 

. . . quidam partim Normannus et Anglus Compater Heraldi.(Guy of Amiens, 587.)