The loss of life was fearful. The dead lay in heaps all around. There were slain no less than 2,300 gentlemen, and about 6,000 private men, of whom two-thirds belonged to Hotspur’s army. On the side of the king, who fought desperately, and was throughout the engagement in the very middle of the fight, slaying, it is said, thirty-six persons with his own hand, there were 1,600 killed and about 3,000 wounded. Among the killed were the Earl of Stafford, and ten new knights who had been knighted on the same morning, only a few hours previously. Douglas and Worcester were taken prisoners. Worcester on the following Monday was beheaded at Shrewsbury, at the High Cross, that is, at the top of Pride Hill. Sir Theobald Trussel, Baron of Kinderton, and Sir Richard Vernon, met the same fate at the same time. Douglas, who had fallen from a crag of a rock on Haughmond Hill before being taken prisoner, was treated with the courtesy due to his rank and noble qualities, and afterwards liberated. The body of Hotspur having been found was beheaded and quartered in Shrewsbury, and the quarters fixed upon the gates of the town. Many of the dead were buried upon the field of slaughter; while some of the most notable were interred in the Black Friars and St. Austin’s Friars, Shrewsbury. Subsequently the king built Battlefield Church in honour of his victory, and settled upon it a certain sum to pay two priests for praying for the souls of the slain. —:o:— In the middle of the 15th century the Duke of York raised an army at Shrewsbury, really for the purpose of dethroning Henry VI., whose feebleness in conducting the Government was beyond dispute, but ostensibly only for the purpose of removing the Duke of Somerset from the councils of the King. The Duke of York was subsequently killed in a battle near Wakefield, whereupon his son, Edward, Earl of March, afterwards King of England, to revenge the death of his father and the cruelties inflicted on his most attached friends, came to Shrewsbury, where 23,000 men flocked to his assistance. With these, principally Welsh borderers, he wholly defeated and dispersed the King’s forces at Mortimer’s Cross, near Hereford.