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
{105d} It does not appear from the _Baronages_, that in 1461, there was
any nobleman called Lord Molineux; nor is any such mentioned in the act
of attainder of the first year of Edward IV. It has probably been
written by mistake for Lord Molins, or Molyns, by which title Robert Lord
Hungerford had been commonly called, in consequence of his marriage with
Alianore, daughter and heir of William Lord Molyns, who was slain in
France, in the seventh year of Henry VI. Robert Lord Hungerford, called
Lord Molyns, however, was not slain at Towton Field, although he fought
there. Upon the loss of the day, he fled to York, where King Henry then
was, and proceeded with him from thence to Scotland, and was attainted in
the first year of Edward IV. He again appeared in arms, in the north of
England, for the Lancastrian party, was engaged at the battle of Hexham
in 1463, taken prisoner there, and conveyed to Newcastle, where he was
beheaded, and was buried in the north aisle of Salisbury Cathedral. By
lady Alianore, his wife, he left three sons. The eldest, Thomas, took
part with the Earl of Warwick, upon his defection from Edward IV., and,
endeavouring to effect the restoration of Henry VI., was taken and tried
for high treason, at Salisbury, in the eighth year of Edward IV., was
condemned and beheaded. But in the first year of Henry VII., his
attainder, and that of his father, were reversed in Parliament, and his
heir had restitution of his lands and honours.
{106a} Lord Henry Buckingham. (_Quære_—Meant for Lord Henry Stafford,
of Buckingham, one of the family of Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham?)
Henry Stafford, who was the second son of Henry Stafford, second Duke of
Buckingham (beheaded in the first year of Richard III.), and brother of
Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham, could not have been the person
meant, because he was living long after the battle of Towton, and was
created Earl of Wiltshire, in the first year of Henry VIII. (See
Dugdale’s _Baronage_, vol. i. p. 170.) We can, however, scarcely doubt,
that one of the family was slain at that battle; and Lord Henry of
Buckingham, is also mentioned amongst the slain, in the first volume of
Fenn’s _Original Letters_, fo. 220; John Stafford and Humphrey Stafford,
apparently also of that family, are there mentioned, as having been
engaged in that battle on the part of Edward IV.
{106b} Sir John Heron of the Ford, before mentioned.
{106c} _Quære_—Is Sir Gervase Clifton mentioned in error in the list, by
Stow? A knight of that name was executed after the battle of Tewkesbury,
and another perished at the battle of Bosworth. See Chapters VII. and
VIII.
{106d} Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire. See Chap. IV.
{106e} _Rot Parl._ 1st Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. fo. 477. See Appendix
No. L
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