{145a} It is said that human bones were found there; but it is unfortunate that no full and detailed account seems to have been preserved of the examination of the grave, or what kind of human bones, whether male or female, old or young, were discovered, for they might have done much to throw light upon the subject. I could not obtain any further information relative to it, from the person who showed me through the Abbey Church. The practice of interring corpses in stone coffins continued a considerable time after the date of the battle of Tewkesbury. The corpse of Richard III. was interred, after the battle of Bosworth, in 1485, in a stone coffin, in the Grey Friars Church at Leicester. His remains were, at the time of the destruction of religious houses, disturbed, and the stone coffin was converted into a watering-trough, at the White Horse Inn, in Gallow Tree Gate, and was so used until it was broken to pieces.—Hutton’s _Battle of Bosworth_, pp. 142, 143. See also Sandford’s _Genealogical History_, p. 410, where he mentions that the stone coffin was made a drinking-trough for horses at a common inn. {145b} Additions to Camden’s _Britannia_, by Gough, published in 1789, vol. i. p. 269. That account evidently refers to a prior examination to that already noticed, as having occurred before the inscription (of which a copy has been given) was placed there, in 1796, because Gough’s edition of Camden’s _Mag. Brit._ was published in 1789. At present there is not any monument to the memory of the Duke of Clarence or his wife, nor did I hear that any was known to have ever been there. {146a} Hall, p. 32. Holinshed says it occurred on the 7th. {146b} Hall and Holinshed; Lel. _Collect_, vol. ii. p. 506. {146c} Sir Thomas Tresham is stated, in the act of attainder of 14th Edward IV. (1475), to have been of Sywell, in the county of Northampton. _Rot. Parl._ 14th Edward IV. vol. vi. fo. 145. _Quære_—if he were the same Sir Thomas Tresham, or a son of the Sir Thomas Tresham attainted in the 1st of Edward IV. (1461), for having been engaged at the battle of Towton against Edward, but whose attainder was reversed in the 7th and 8th Edw. IV. (1467 and 1468)?