Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
For there died vnder the signe of the castell, Edmund duke of
Summerset, who (as hath béene reported) was warned long before to auoid
all castels: and beside him laie Henrie the second of that name earle
of Northumberland, Humfrie earle of Stafford sonne to the duke of
Buckingham, Iohn lord Clifford, sir Barthram Antwisell knight, a Norman
borne (who forsaking his natiue countrie to continue in his loiall
obedience to king Henrie, came ouer to dwell here in England when
Normandie was lost) William Zouch, Iohn Boutreux, Rafe Bapthorp, with
his sonne William Corwin, William Cotton, Gilbert Faldinger, Reginald
Griffon, Iohn Dawes, Elice Wood, Iohn Eith, Rafe Woodward, Gilbert
Sharlock, and Rafe Willoughbie esquiers, with manie other, in all to
the number of eight thousand, as Edward Hall saith in his chronicle:
if there escaped not a fault in the impression, as 8000 for 800, sith
hundreds in verie déed would better agrée with the number of the kings
whole power, which he brought with him to that battell, being not manie
aboue two thousand, as by writers appeareth.
[Sidenote: The kings part vanquished.]
Humfrie duke of Buckingham, being wounded, and Iames Butler earle
of Ormond and Wilshire, and Thomas Thorp lord chéefe baron of the
escheker, séeing fortune thus against them, left the king alone, and
with a number fled awaie. Those that thus fled, made the best shift
they could to get awaie through gardens and backesides, through shrubs,
hedges and woods, séeking places where to hide themselues, vntill
that dangerous tempest of the battell were ouerblowne. Diuerse of the
kings house also that could better skill to plaie the courtiers than
warriors, fled with the first; and those of the east parts of the
realme were likewise noted of too much lacke of courage, for their
spéedie withdrawing themselues, and leauing the king in danger of his
aduersaries: who perceiuing his men thus fled from him, withdrew into a
poore mans house to saue himselfe from the shot of arrowes, that flue
about him as thicke as snow.
[Sidenote: _Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 678, 679, in Quart._]
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