Parr, Thomas, Richard's esquire, slain at Barnet, 50 Paston, boy at Eton, 117 Paston, Clement, at Cambridge, 117 Paston, John, 7, 120, 122, 201 Paston, Mrs., 117, 120, 122 Paston Letters, 7, 8 _n._, 23, 76 _n._, 81, 151 _n._ Payn, Mr., his luggage seized by Jack Cade, 122 Payne's Place, Margaret of Anjou took refuge at, 77 Peerage, 37, 105, 106; of Richard III., 109, 143; at his coronation, 109, 126, 127; no peer, except Stanley, joined Henry Tudor, 149 Pembroke, _see_ Tudor, Jasper, title of Edward, son of Edward IV. (_whom see_) Pembroke Castle, Henry Tudor born at, 140 Percy, Sir Richard, 24; slain at Towton, 33, 34 Percy, Sir Robert, of Scotton, friend of Richard, 40; Controller of the Household, 145; knighted, 147; with the king at Bosworth, 151, 156 Peterborough, 1 Pickering, Sir James, with the Duke of York at Wakefield, 10; slain, 15; head stuck on a gate at York, 17 Pilgrimages, 119 Pilkington, Sir John, knighted after Tewkesbury, 77 Pilkington, Sir Thomas, loyal to King Richard, 252 Pilkingtons, faithful to King Richard, 151 Plantagenets, the Dynasty, 166; the kings of the Lancastrian branch, 103, 104; Yorkist right, 9, 104; children of the Duke of York, 6; of Edward IV., 86 _n._; of the Duke of Clarence, 87 _n._; slaughter of the last male, 275 Plumpton correspondence, 245; arbitration, 84, 160 _n._ Plumptons faithful to King Richard, 151 Plumstead churchyard, 120 Pole-on-the-Humber, Lord Rivers landed at, 46 Pole, de la, _see_ Suffolk, Duke of, Lincoln, Earl of Pole, Anne de la, 139 Pole, Richard, married to the Princess Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Clarence, 87 _n._ Pole, Sir Edmund de la, created K.B., 147; afterwards Earl of Suffolk Polydore Virgil, employed by Henry VII., 168; his coming to England, 171; his numerous preferments, 172; character of his history, 172; untrustworthy, 175; on the unequal shoulders, 186; on treatment of captives at Towton, 34; a slanderer, 190, 192; on date of death of Henry VI., 193, 196; his calumny about the Duchess of York, 220, 222; statement about Buckingham's claims, 223; silent about Clarence, 202; contradicts Morton about Shaw's sermon, 220; contemplated marriage with Elizabeth, 231; battle of Bosworth, 157 _n._; his story of the murder, 258 Pomfret, Lancastrian army at, 13; bodies of the Duke of York and Earl of Rutland at, 34, 39; Montagu at, 47 Pomfret Castle, a residence of the Duke of Gloucester, 84; Edward's headquarters before Towton, 25; execution of Lord Rivers at, 99 Pont-à-Mousson, birth place of Margaret of Anjou, 53, 61 Portsmouth, 69 Post first established by Richard III., 106, 159 Prices, 123 Printing, _see_ Caxton Progress, King Richard's royal, 129-30 Pulter, Thomas, loyal to King Richard, 252 Quarter, none given by the Lancastrians at Wakefield, 16, 17; proof that it was given by Edward at Towton, 34; always given by Edward, 34; given to inferior officers and soldiers at Tewkesbury, where several leaders were also pardoned, 77