Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century: to which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers upon archæological subjectsBrooke, Richard
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Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century: to which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers upon archæological subjects
Brooke, Richard
Battlefields -- England; Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
Yoman, and Richard Cokerell late of York Marchaunt; on Sonday called
comynly Palme Sonday, the xxix day of Marche, the first yere of his
reigne, in a feld bitwene the townes of Shirbourne in Elmett, and
Tadcastr’ in the seid Shire of York, called Saxtonfeld and
Tawtonfeeld, in the shire of York, accompanyed with the Frensshmen
and Scotts, the Kynges Ennemyes, falsely and traiterously ayenst
their feith and liegeaunce, there rered werre ayenst the same Kyng
Edward, their rightwise, true, and naturall liege Lord, purposyng
there and then to have distroyed hym, and deposed hym of his roiall
estate, coroune and dignite; and then and there, to that entent,
falsely and traiterously moved bataille ayenst his seid astate,
shedyng therin the blode of a grete nombre of his subgetts: In the
which bataille, it pleased Almyghty God to yeve unto hym, of the
mysterie of his myght and grace, the victorie of his ennemyes and
rebelles, and to subdue and avoyde th’ effect of their fals and
traiterous purpose. And where also the seid Henry, late called Kyng
Henry the Sixt, Margarete his wyf, late called Quene of Englond, and
Edward her Son, late called Prynce of Wales, and also Henry Duc of
Excestre, Henry Duc of Somerset, Thomas Lord Roos, Thomas Grey Knyght
Lord Rugemond Gray, in the fest of Seint Marc Evangelist last past,
purposyng and ymaginyng the destruction of oure seid Soverayne Lord
Kyng Edward, to depose hym of his roiall astate and dignite, procured
of James Kyng of Scotts, and of his subgetts, then ennemyes of oure
seid Soverayne Lord, their eyde, assistence and armed power, to entre
uppon the same oure Soverayne Lord into his seid reame, to put hym
from the reigne therof, and to distroy hym; and to that entent,
convened with the same James Kyng of Scotts, and ayeinst their feith
and liegeaunce, delyvered to hym to his possession and obeisaunce, in
the seid Fest, the toune and castell of Berwyk, of oure seid liege
Lordes, then beyng their rightwisse, true, and naturall liege Lord,
to that ende and effect, that the seid Kyng of Scotts soo than
possessed of the seid toune and castell, the key of the Estmarches of
Englond, shuld therby have entre, to execute the unjust, untrue, and
malicious purpose and entent of the same Henry, Margaret and Edward.
And for asmoch also as the seid Margarete, and also Henry Duc of
Excestr’, Henry Duc of Somerset, Jasper Erle of Pembroke, James late
Erle of Wilteshire, Robert Lord Hungerford, Thomas Mannyng Clerk,
John Lax, late Parsoune of Walton in the shire of Somerset Clerk,
Henry Lewes Knyght, Robert Whityngham Knyght, John Ormond otherwise
called John Botillier Knyght, Frere Robert Gasley, of the ordre of
the Freres Prechours, and Thomas Cornewayle Squier, have ayenst their
feith and liegeaunce, dyvers tymes sith the fourth day of Marche last
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