The Percy family documents seldom provide much information about named performers, but for Thomas Wigen or Wyggen, the references suggest an eventful, perhaps harrowing life. He appears first in 1605 in a menial role, paid 6 s 8 d ‘for taking up foundations in the garden May the 13˹th˺’.[1] More interesting is a taylor’s bill […]
The pre-edited Records of Early English Drama drawn from the substantial family accounts of the Percys (the Medieval & Early Modern Earls of Northumberland) may now be viewed and searched on our ‘Percy Papers’ page. Check out the latest batch of Percy records here: The Percy Papers Thanks to REED editor Robert Alexander, assisted by […]
‘No No my Lord’ Anyone frustrated by current arguments in the news might benefit from reading the following spirited letter from the ninth Earl of Northumberland to William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury. The subject is negotiations concerning the marriage of Lady Anne Cecil to Algernon Percy, future tenth Earl of Northumberland, and money that […]