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William Sommers

(Sommers, William, -1560)

Will Sommers, court jester to Henry VIII

William Sommers (or Somers or Somer; died 15 June 1560) was the best-known court jester (believed to be a ‘natural fool’) of Henry VIII of England. (From Wikipedia)

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Sommers, William, -1560 -- Drama

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Summers Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nash (multiple formats at folger.edu)

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A pleasant history of the life and death of Will Summers And how hee came first to be knowne at the court, and how he came up to London, and by what meanes hee got to be King Henry the eights iester. With the entertainment that his cozen Patch, Cardinall Wolsey's foole, gave him at his Lords house, and how the hogs-heads of gold were known by this meanes, and were seized on at his seller in old Fish-street. (London : Printed by I. Okes and are to be sold by F. Grove and T. Lambart, 1637) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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Sommers, William, -1560: Merie and pleasant prognostication devised after the finest fashion (At London : Printed by Edward All-de, and are to be sold by Iohn Tapp at his shop at Saint Magnus Corner, 1623), also by fl. 1577-1582 W. W. and J. Dernyll (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Sommers, William, -1560: A new and merrie prognostication: being a metrical satire, suppositiously assigned to Will Summers, the jester, and three others; now first reprinted from the ... edition of 1623. (Printed by Thomas Richards [privately printed], 1860), also by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

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