ANNE, at Holyfen Rectory: Nursemaid and housekeeper to Sir George.

CROMWELL, Oliver: Member of Parliament for Cambridge, commission by Parliament to raise a troop of horse in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Brother to Jane; uncle to Edmund, Sydney, and Thomas. Puritan.

FIRTH, Robert: Goldsmith on Lombard Street in London who performs important banking functions for Sydney.

FIRTH, William: Apprentice, formerly at the firm of Halpenny & Holyfen, now attached to Sydney Holyfen, who writes for Anglia Rediviva. Puritan.

GORING, Sir George: Parliamentary officer and noted lover of wine, women, and song.

HALPENNY, Ralph: Principal at the firm of Halpenny & Holyfen.

HAMPDEN, John: Member of Parliament for Wendover; Colonel of the Greencoats, a regiment of foot; relative to the Holyfens through his mother, the aunt of Oliver Cromwell and Jane Holyfen. Puritan.

HATHAWAY, James: MA, Sidney Sussex; holder of a lectureship (that is, a preaching ministry; an arrangement employed by Puritans to avoid Laud's restrictions on preaching)  endowed by Sydney. Puritan.

HEWITT, John: Lawyer, based in Lincoln's Inn, London; contributes to Anglia Rediviva; husband of Anne, brother-in-law to Sydney, Edmund, and Thomas. Puritan.

HEWITT, Anne: Husband of John, sister to Sydney, Edmund, Thomas. Puritan.

HOLYFEN, Sydney: Principal at the firm of Halpenny and Holyfen; lead author of Anglia Rediviva; also engaged in various business ventures including the smuggling of various consumer goods from the continent and America to England. Nephew of Oliver Cromwell. Puritan.

HOLYFEN, Edmund: Stowed away to America in 1630; wife, Sarah; abducted, tortured, and murdered by Pequots; led the English in Pequot War of 1637. Puritan.

HOLYFEN, Thomas: Brother to Sydney and Edmund; resides Holyfen rectory with his father. Royalist.

HOLYFEN, Sir George: Father of Sydney, Edmund, and Thomas; estranged husband of Jane. Royalist in sympathy.

HOLYFEN, Jane: Mother of Sydney, Edmund, and Thomas; sister of Oliver Cromwell; estranged wife of Sir George Holyfen.

NELL, aka Bold Nell of the Hedge: Daughter of the keeper of the Three Fauns, an inn in Portsmouth. One-time paramour to Goring, now following the Horse of Prince Rupert.

PAIGE, Nathaniel: Apprentice, formerly of the firm of Halpenny and Holyfen, now attached to Sydney Holyfen, and a writer for Anglia Rediviva. Puritan.

PYM, John: Leader of the opposition in Parliament to King Charles. Puritan.

RUPERT, Prince of the Rhine, nephew to Charles I, commander of his Horse.

STUART, Charles: King of England

WARWICK, Earl of: Robert Rich, commander of the Fleet, leading Puritan noble of England, involved in colonial and commercial enterprises.