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
{58c} William Bonvile, Lord Harrington, married Katharine, fifth
daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury; was the son of William
Bonvile, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of William Lord
Harrington, and was the grandson of William Lord Bonvile, who survived
his son and grandson, but was put to death after the second battle of St.
Alban’s, in 1460–1. William Bonvile, Lord Harrington, left by Katharine
his wife, a daughter, Cecily, who became the wife of Thomas Grey, Marquis
of Dorset, and afterwards of Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire.
{58d} Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. (See Chap. II.) In the
second year of Edward IV., the Earl of Salisbury’s body, with that of
Alice his wife, and that of Thomas his son, were interred at Bisham
Abbey, in Berkshire.
{59a} Shakespeare’s _Third Part of Henry VI._ act. 1, scene 4 (Sandal
Castle, near Wakefield).
{59b} See Chap. VI.
{60a} See Chap. VI.
{60b} See Chap. VI.
{60c} _Rot. Parl._ 1st Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. fo. 447. See
Appendix No. 1.
{61a} That was my impression on the occasion of my first visit to
Sandal, and I so communicated it in my paper on the Battle of Wakefield,
read before the Society of Antiquaries; but after a second and third
visit to Sandal, and to the field of battle, I altered my opinion, and I
now consider it certain, that the Lancastrians advanced on the westward
side of the Calder, and that Wakefield and the bridge were in their
possession at the time of the battle.
{61b} On the 29th of July, 1853, I paid a second visit, and on the 4th
of August, 1854, a third visit, to Sandal, and to the field of the battle
of Wakefield.
{62} Leland, in his quaint language, gives a tolerably accurate account
of the place where the battle was fought, when he says:—“There was a sore
Batell faught in the South Feeldes by this Bridge, and yn the flite of
the Duke of Yorkes parte, other the Duke hymself or his Sone the erle of
Rutheland was slayne a litle above the Barres beyond the Bridge going up
into the Toune of Wakefeld that standith ful fairely upon a clyving
ground. At this place is set up a crosee, ‘in rei memoriam,’”—Leland’s
_Itinerary_, vol. i. fo. 34 [40].
{63} See Chapters I. and VI.
{64a} Additions to Camden’s _Britannia_, Gough’s edition of 1789, vol.
iii. fo. 39. Leland says, “at this place is set up a crosse, ‘in rei
memoriam’”—Leland’s _Itinerary_, vol. i. fo. 45 [42]; but whether he
means in memory of the Duke of York, or of the young Earl of Rutland, or
of the battle, seems to admit of doubt.
{64b} _Quære_?—The lane is occasionally called “Cock and Bottle Lane,”
from the sign of an old public-house which stands, or very recently stood
in the neighbourhood?
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