John Tunstall (usher)

In the performance, the court dwarf Jeffrey Hudson fenced with a giant, the Welsh porter William Evans.

[4] Tunstall had a house at Edgcome or Edgecombe (later Addiscombe) by Croydon, and the flowers he grew for Henrietta Maria, including Colchicum variegatum and Myosotis arvensis were mentioned and illustrated by the botanists John Gerard and John Parkinson.

[6] In the 1630s he objected to commissioners taking saltpetre from his pigeon-house or dovecote for making gunpowder and had it demolished.

Her portrait, aged 2, at Arbury Hall, includes one of the earliest depictions of an English knot garden.

Tunstall may have made an introduction between the apparently wealthy goldsmith and a gentry family in some financial difficulty.