Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King Edward IV. (the marriage gave him his best title to the throne); and he died at Richmond on the 21st of April, 1509, in the fifty-third year of his age, having reigned twenty-three years and about eight months.—See Pedigree No. 4, Chap. IX. There is something remarkable with respect to the number and rank of the personages who were candidates for the hand of the Princess Elizabeth:—1stly, she was intended by her father, King Edward IV., to be the bride of George Neville, Duke of Bedford, the son of John Neville, Marquis Montague (slain at the battle of Barnet); 2ndly, she was affianced to Charles, the Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XI.; 3rdly, she was courted by her uncle, King Richard III., who probably intended, as has been the fashion of royalty in Portugal, to obtain the Pope’s permission to marry a niece; 4thly, she married King Henry VII., and, consequently, became a Queen, on the 19th of January, 1486. {159} Hutton’s _Bosworth Field_, 2nd edition, by J. Nichols, F.S.A., Advertisement, pp. iii. and iv. {160a} Hutton’s _Bosworth Field_, p. 69; and see _ibid._, Advertisement, pp. iv. and v., where an error is pointed out in his statement as to the number of acres. {160b} Hutton’s _Bosworth Field_, pp. 69 and 70. {160c} _Ibid._, p. 87. {160d} _Ibid._, additional particulars, p. 241. {160e} Some land occupied as part of Sutton Field Farm, by Mr. Cooper, a farmer of respectability, is called Cornhill Furze, and lies on the north side of the road leading from Shenton to Sutton Cheney. {161a} Hutton’s _Bosworth Field_, p. 88. {161b} On his way from Lichfield to Tamworth, he was joined by Sir Thomas Bourchier and Sir Walter Hungerford, who had deserted Richard’s party, and with some difficulty joined the Earl of Richmond. {161c} Thomas Lord Stanley. See Chap. II. {161d} Sir William Stanley. See Chap. II. {161e} Hutton’s _Bosworth Field_, Additional Particulars, pp. 195, 196.