{186i} Dugdale’s _Baronage_, vol. ii. p. 299. There was also another person of the name of Brandon, and probably of the same family—Robert Brandon, who appears to have distinguished himself at the battle of Stoke, because he was knighted on the occasion.—See Leland’s _Collectanea_, vol. iv. p. 210, Appendix No. IV. {186j} _Rot. Parl._ 3 Henry VII. part 15, vol. vi. fo. 397. See Appendix No. V. But see _Rot. Parl._ 11 Henry VII. vol. vi. fo. 502. Appendix No. VI., where the 20th of June is mentioned as the date of the battle. {187a} _Rot. Parl._ 3 Henry VII., vol. vi. fo. 397. See Appendix No. V. See also Hutton’s _Bosworth Field_, pp. 82, 97: An act of attainder was passed against the adherents of Richard III., after the battle of Bosworth, which mentions the use of guns amongst other arms, by them.—_Rot. Parl._ 1 Henry VII., vol. vi. p. 276. See Appendix No. III. {187b} Hall, Holinshed, Bacon, Pol. Virgil, Baker. {187c} Lambert Simnel was made a turnspit in the King’s kitchen, and was afterwards made a falconer; the priest, his tutor, was never again heard of. {188a} Lelandi _Collectanea_, p. 214. See Appendix No. IV. and No. VII. {188b} Hall’s _Chronicles_, and Bacon, mention a rumour of his being drowned in swimming the Trent; but the latter adds, “But another report leaves him not there, but that he lived long after, in a cave or vault;” and in the 2nd volume, p. 321, Banks’s _Dormant and Extinct Baronage_, is a copy of a letter, dated 1737, from William Cooper, Esq., clerk of the Parliament, detailing some interesting particulars of the discovery, in 1708, of a human skeleton, in a vault at Minster Lovel, in Oxfordshire, which formerly belonged to Lord Lovel, supposed by many, to be the remains of that unfortunate nobleman. See Appendix No. VII. {188c} Buck’s _Life of Richard III._ {188d} Hall, Holinshed, Dugdale.—See Chap. VIII. {188e} Hall, Dugdale’s _Baronage_. {189} Lel. _Col._ vol. iv. p. 213. See Appendix No. IV. {190} I have paid four visits to the field of the battle of Stoke, viz., in June, 1823; June, 1824; August, 1825; and September, 1827. {191a} A passage, calculated to mislead, exists in a work, called _The Beauties of England and Wales_. It contains an assertion, unsupported by any proof, “that the battle must have been fought in the plain, between Stoke and Thorpe, rather than Stoke and Elston.” The clear and unqualified statements of the old chroniclers and annalists, that it was fought at Stoke, the evidence of the relics dug up, and the tradition of the neighbourhood, make it however quite certain that it could not have been fought in the place suggested in that work. {191b} _Rot. Parl._ 17 Edward IV. and 1 Richard III. {191c} Ralph Brooke, Sandford, Dugdale, Baker. {192a} Dugdale, Speed. {192b} Buck.