{84b} William Neville, Lord Falconberg, was the second son of Ralph Neville, first Earl of Westmoreland, by Joan his second wife, a daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; he had served in France, and fought at the battles of Northampton and Towton, and was created Earl of Kent in the first year of Edward IV., and afterwards made High Admiral of England, and a Knight of the Garter, for the important services which he had rendered to the House of York. He died about the second year of Edward IV., and was buried at the Priory of Gisborough, in Yorkshire. His being uncle to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the King-Maker, may account for his fighting on the side of Edward IV., and having a principal command at the battles of Northampton and of Towton.—See Chap. III. {84c} According to the present style, the year was 1461; but at that time, the legal year did not commence until the 25th of March, and consequently, until that day arrived, the year was then called 1460. {85a} _Rot. Parl._ 1st Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. p. 464. See also Fabyan’s _Chronicles_, fo. 218. {85b} Edward Prince of Wales, the only child of Henry VI. and Queen Margaret, was born on the 13th of October, 1453; created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on the 15th of March, in the thirty second year of Henry VI.; and was murdered after the battle of Tewkesbury, on the 4th of May, 1471.—See Chaps. III. and VII.; and Pedigree No. 1, Chap. IX. {86a} See observations in a note _infra_ in this chapter, respecting Lord Fitzwalter. {86b} John Lord Clifford was the son of Thomas Lord Clifford, who was slain at the first battle of St. Alban’s, in 1455.—See Chap. IV. {86c} Hall, Holinshed, Grafton. {87a} “This feeld was as much fought in Saxton Paroch, as in Towton, yet it berith the name of Towton.”—Leland’s _Itinerary_, vol. i. fo. 47. {87b} _Rot. Parl._ 1 Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. fo. 478. Appendix No. 1. {87c} In order to avoid a repetition of references, the authorities referred to in this paper for the historical facts, are Hall, Holinshed, Leland, Speed, Stow, Dugdale, John Habington, _Hist. Croy. Cont._, Francis Biondi, Fabyan, Grafton, Baker, and _Rotuli Parl._ {88a} Upon this eminence, close to the village, is a small wood called Benshar Wood. {88b} I could not learn anything respecting the comparative antiquity of the bridge, but I consider it very improbable that there was any bridge over the Cock in 1461. {89} I visited the bridge and the river Cock at Stutton, in 1849. I consider it very probable that a portion of the Lancastrians, in retreating, passed the Cock at that place either by a bridge or ford.