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
{206c} Lel. _Coll._ vol. fo. 504; Holinshed, vol. i. fo. 684; MS.
Chronicle by Warkworth, printed by the Camden Society, p. 16. Holinshed,
however, states, that Edward would not allow his guns to be fired during
the night, in order that the enemy might not be aware of the exact
position of the Yorkists.
{207a} See note 2, p. 206.
{207b} Richard Duke of Gloucester.—See Chaps. VII. and VIII.
{207c} William Lord Hastings.—See Chap. VI.
{207d} John Neville, Marquis Montague.—See Chap. II. p. 27, note 4; and
Chap. VI. p. 118, note 2.
{207e} John Earl of Oxford.—See Chap. VIII.
{207f} Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter.—See Chap. IV. p. 54, note 2.
{207g} Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.—See Chap. VII.
{207h} Holinshed’s _Chronicles_, vol. i. fo. 684. In Mr. Hutton’s
interesting work upon the _Battle of Bosworth_, Introduction, p. xxx., he
gives a different account, and states that Warwick’s left extended
towards the east, and far outflanked Edward’s right.
{208} Edward’s device of the Sun in Splendour, was adopted from the
parhelion seen at the battle of Mortimer’s Cross.—See Chap. V. pp. 72,
73.
{209a} Humphrey Bourchier, third son of Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex,
married Joan, daughter of Richard Stanhope, and niece and co-heir of
Ralph Lord Cromwell, of Tatshall, had summons to Parliament, in 1, 2, 6,
and 9th of Edward IV., by the title of Lord Cromwell, was slain at the
battle of Barnet, left no issue, and was interred in Westminster
Abbey.—Dugdale’s _Baronage_, vol. ii. fo. 133.
{209b} William Fienes, Lord Saye, succeeded his father, James Fienes
Lord Saye, who was put to death by Jack Cade and his mob, in Cheapside,
in London, in 1451. His son, William Lord Saye, upon the arrival in
England of the Earls of March and Warwick, in 1460, joined them, and
marched with them against King Henry VI., to Northampton. In 1463, he
attended King Edward, with his army, to the North, for the recovery of
the castles in Northumberland, then held by the Lancastrians, and in the
same year, was made Vice-Admiral under the Earl of Warwick, then High
Admiral. He accompanied Edward the Fourth, in 1470, when he was driven
out of the kingdom by the Earl of Warwick, and afterwards landed with
Edward at Ravenspur, and fought for him, and was slain at the battle of
Barnet.
{209c} John Bourchier, Lord Berners, was the fourth son of William
Bourchier, Earl of Ewe (see Chap. VI. p. 118, note 3). John Lord
Berners’ eldest son, Sir Humphrey Bourchier, slain in his father’s
lifetime, fighting on Edward’s part, at the battle of Barnet, was
interred in Westminster Abbey, and left by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter
and heir of Sir Frederick Tilney, and widow of Sir Thomas Howard, John
Bourchier, Lord Berners, his son and heir, and another son, Sir Thomas
Bourchier, who joined Henry Earl of Richmond, upon his march towards
Bosworth Field, and took part with him in that battle.—Dugdale’s
_Baronage_, vol. ii. fo. 132.
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