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
See also, Additions to Camden’s _Magna Britannia_ (by Gough), edition of
1789, vol. ii. fo. 289, where the same circumstance is narrated, with the
addition, that the clothing of the body seemed to have been rich; that it
was seated in a chair, with a table and a mass-book before it; and also
that, upon the admission of the air, the body soon fell to dust.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. {321}
Page 1, note 2, After the words, “and May, 1856,” add “and also in
September, 1856, which was after part of this work had been sent to the
press.”
„ 2. In the last line of note *, after the words, “according to,” insert
the name, “Fabyan.”
„ 3. Before “Market Drayton,” insert “Hodnet, and.”
„ 5. After the words, “offered battle to his enemies,” add “2,” and at
the foot of the page, insert as note “2”: “A portion of the suburbs of
Shrewsbury was intentionally burnt; that measure being considered
requisite for the safety of the town, in consequence of the approach of
Hotspur’s army.—_Rot. Parl._ 9 Henry IV., vol. iii. fo. 619.”
„ 5. For note “2,” substitute “3.”
„ 10. Instead of “fragments of human bones, armour, spurs,” read “human
bones, fragments of armour, spurs.”
„ 10. For “the Rev. J. O. Hopkins,” read “the late Rev. J. O. Hopkins.”
„ 11, note 4. For “very many of the bones of men,” read “the bones of
many men.”
„ 22, note 2. Instead of “18th of February, 1477,” read “18th of
February, 1477–8.”
„ 28, note 2. For “the 16th of February, 1495,” read “the 16th of
February, 1494–5.”
„ 35. Insert the figures “35” at the head of the page.
„ 39, note 3. For “28th of April, 1442,” read “29th of April, 1441.”
„ 44, note 2. Before the name “Hall,” insert “Fabyan.”
„ 49. For “1459,” read “1460.”
„ 50. In the second line of the continuation of the note, before the
name “Hall,” insert “Fabyan.”
Page 53, note 4. Add, “Dugdale and Stow state that the Duke of York left
London on the 2nd of December, and arrived at Sandal on Christmas eve.
If he consumed twenty-two days in his march from London to Sandal, the
delay seems very extraordinary.”
„ 54, note 3. Instead of “Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (the son of
Edmund Beaufort, grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster), after the
death,” read “Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, was the son of Edmund
Beaufort (grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster), who, after the
death.”
„ 54. In the seventh line of the same note, instead of “his eldest son,
Henry,” read “The eldest son, Henry.”
„ 55, note 1. After the words, “fighting on behalf of Henry VI., and
there buried,” add, “Leland, in his _Itinerary_, vol. vi. fo. 93 [p. 82],
also states that Thomas Earl of Devonshire was slain at Tewkesbury, and
buried there.”
„ 58. Instead of “His army, surrendered and overwhelmed with numbers,”
read “His array nearly surrounded and overwhelmed by numbers.”
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