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
{179a} _Rot. Parl._ 11th Henry VII. vol. vi. fo. 502.—See Appendix No.
VI.
{179b} See Collection of “Documents relating to Lambert Symnell’s
Rebellion in the second year of King Henry VII.,” selected from the
_Municipal Archives of York_, by Robert Davies, Esq., F.S.A.;
communicated to the Meeting of the Archæological Institute, held at York,
in 1846; published in 1847, pp. 27, 28.
{180a} Jasper Earl of Pembroke.—See Chap. V.
{180b} John Earl of Oxford.—See Chap. VIII.
{180c} Thomas Lord Stanley.—See Chaps. III. and VIII.
{180d} George Talbot, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, was son of John, third
earl, and grandson of John, second Earl Shrewsbury, who was slain at the
battle of Northampton, in 1460.—See Chap. III.
{180e} Lel. _Coll._ vol. iv. fo. 210.—See Appendix No. IV.
{181} After the earl’s forces had crossed the Trent at Fiskerton, and
found themselves upon its right bank, Stoke Marsh, now enclosed, lay
immediately before them; and beyond it, little more than a quarter of a
mile distant, was the foot of the eminence already mentioned.
{182a} On the right, an artificial mount of small size, exists in the
contiguous field, which is traditionally considered as having been
occupied by some of the hostile forces, previous to the battle of Stoke.
The small mount is said to have been thrown up or added to, for the
purposes of a windmill, which once stood there.
{182b} For the Pedigree of Henry VII., see Pedigree No. 4, _infra_, in
this chapter.
{185a} 4 Lelandi _Collect_, p. 211.—See Appendix No. IV.
{185b} 4 Lel. _Col._ p. 210, 212.—See Appendix No. IV.
{186a} Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, formerly Earl of Pembroke.—See
Chap. V.
{186b} John de Vere, Earl of Oxford.—See Chap. VIII.
{186c} George Talbot, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury. He was the son of
John, third Earl, and grandson of John, second Earl of Shrewsbury, who
was slain at the battle of Northampton, in 1460.—See Chap. III.
{186d} Richard Neville, Lord Latimer, was the son of Sir Henry Neville
(the son of George Lord Latimer, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of
Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick), and died in the twenty-second year
of Henry VIII.
{186e} Edward Lord Hastings, son of William Lord Hastings (put to death
by Richard Duke of Gloucester, in 1488—see Chap. VI.) by Katherine,
daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and widow of William
Bonvile Lord Harrington, was created Earl of Huntingdon, in the
twenty-first, and died in the thirty-sixth year of Henry VIII.
{186f} Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby.—See Chap. II.
{186g} Sir Edward Fielding was the son and heir of Sir William Fielding,
who fell at the battle of Tewkesbury, fighting for the Lancastrian party,
and was interred there; he was the ancestor of William Fielding, created
Earl of Denbigh, in the twentieth year of James I.
{186h} See Chap. VIII.
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