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
past, stured, laboured and provoked the ennemyes of oure seid
soverayne Lord Kyng Edward the Fourth, of outeward landes, to entre
into his seid reame with grete bataille, to rere werre ayenst his
astate within this seid reame, to conquere the same from his
possession and obeysaunce, to depose hym of roiall astate, corounes
and dignite, and to destroy his moost noble persone and subgetts.
And where also the same Margarete, and Edward her son, and also the
seid Henry Duc of Excestr’, Thomas Grey Lord Rugemonde Grey, Humfrey
Dacre Knyght, Edmund Hampden Knyght, Robert Whityngham Knyght, Henry
Bellyngeham Knyght, and Richard Tunstall Knyght, adheryng to the
Scotts, ennemyes of oure seid soverayne Lord Kyng Edward the Fourth,
convened with the same Scotts, procuryng, desiring and wagyng theym
to enter into his seid reame, to make there werre ayenst his Roiall
Majeste, bringyng the same Scotts and ennemyes to his cite of
Carlile, besegyng and envirounyng it, brennyng the subarbes therof,
distroiyng the howses, habitacions and landes of his subgetts nygh
therunto, in manere of conquest; purposyng, ayenst their feith and
liegeaunce, to have delyvered the seid cite, the key of the
Westmarches of Englond, into the possession and obeysaunce of the
seid Kyng of Scotts, and to have spoiled the coroune of Englond
therof, as they didde of the seid toune of Berwyk. And over that,
where the seid Henry, late called Kyng of Englond the Sixt, and also
Thomas Lord Roos, Thomas Gray Lord Rugemond Grey, Humfrey Dacre
Knyght, John Fortescu Knyght, William Tailboys Knyght, Edmund
Mountford Knyght, Thomas Nevill late of Brauncepath in the
Bisshopryke of Durham Clerk, Humfrey Nevill late of the same Squier,
and Thomas Elwyke late of Caleys Squier, the XXVI day of Juyne last
past, at Ryton and Brauncepath in the Bisshopryke of Durham, with
standardes and gyturons unrolled, rered werre ayenst oure seid Lord
Kyng Edward, purposying to have deposed hym of his roiall astate,
coroune and dignite, ayenst their feith and liegeaunce. And for
asmoch also as Henry Duc of Excestre, Jasper Erle of Pembroke, and
Thomas Fitz Herry late of Herford Squier, at a place called Tutehill,
besid’ the toune of Carnarvan in Wales, on Friday next after the fest
of Translacion of Seint Edward last past, rered werre ayenst the same
oure soverayne Lord, purposyng then and there to have proceeded to
his destruction, of fals and cruell violence, ayenst their feith and
liegeaunce.”
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