Tom (Ruled Britannia)

Thomas was a young English boy who lived in London in the sixteenth century. He was an actor with Lord Westmoreland's Men.

The tradition in the English theater at the time was to cast prepubescent boys in female roles, as female actresses were unheard of. William Shakespeare considered Thomas the troupe's finest such actor and considered casting him in the role of Boudicia in the English nationalistic play Boudicca. Richard Burbage talked Shakespeare out of it because Thomas came from a Catholic family and hoped to follow his brother into the priesthood. Burbage feared that if they approached Thomas it would be all too likely that they would need to condemn him to death by Ingram Frizer's knife.

Thomas's Catholicism did not stop him from being seduced by the homosexual Puritan Anthony Bacon and fleeing with Bacon to the court of the Protestant King Christian IV of Denmark in 1598.