Possible Clues:

• Hamlet character
• Ill-fated jester, one caught entering northern city
• His skull is held in 'Hamlet'
• King of Denmark's jester in 'Hamlet'
• Fool I see in Richard's house - or Denmark's?
• King's jester in 'Hamlet'
• City, about first century, first to die in 16
• One hundred in a cathedral city, said to be poor
• Hamlet's "fellow of infinite jest"
• Alas, poor - (Hamlet)