_Warwick_ (wounded).—“For who liv’d King, but I could dig his grave? And who durst smile, when Warwick bent his brow? Lo, now my glory smear’d in dust and blood! My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, Even now forsake me; and of all my lands, Is nothing left me, but my body’s length!” SHAKESPEARE’S _Henry VI._ part iii. act v. scene 2. (_A Field of Battle near Barnet_.) From the accounts given by the old historians, {210b} it is clear that cannons or some other description of firearms were used at the battle of Barnet. Besides which, W. Hutton, F.S.A., states that the keeper of the Red Cow Tavern, near the obelisk after mentioned, preserved a ball of a pound and a half weight, which he dug out of the ground. {210c} An obelisk of stone, apparently about eighteen or twenty feet high, commemorative of the battle, {210d} and of the place {210e} where it was fought, was erected by Sir Jeremy Sambroke, Bart., in 1740. It stands about a mile beyond Barnet, and just beyond the small village of Hadley, and is in the county of Middlesex, but near the borders of Hertfordshire, and on the right side of the high road, close to the point where the roads diverge in one direction to South Mims and St. Alban’s, and in the other to Hatfield. It stood originally close to the tavern called the Two Brewers, to which it is still very near; but about fourteen or fifteen years ago, it was removed thirty-two yards more towards the South Mims side, where it now stands. {211} The obelisk is often called Hadley High Stone, and contains the following inscription:— HERE WAS FOUGHT THE FAMOUS BATTLE BETWEEN EDWARD THE 4TH AND THE EARL OF WARWICK APRIL THE 14TH ANNO 1471 IN WHICH THE EARL WAS DEFEATED AND SLAIN. CHAPTER X. ON THE GENERAL USE OF FIREARMS BY THE ENGLISH, IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. {213} (_Enter_, _on the walls_, _the Master Gunner and his Son_.) _Master Gunner_.—“Sirrah, thou know’st how Orleans is besieg’d, And how the English have the suburbe won.” _Son_.—“Father, I know; and oft have shot at them, Howe’er, unfortunate, I miss’d my aim.”