The confederate earls having obtained the victory, waited upon the King with all outward show of respect; but immediately conveyed him to London, and lodged him in the bishop’s palace. The body of the Duke of Buckingham was interred in the church of the Grey Friars {47b} at Northampton; that of the Earl of Shrewsbury was conveyed to Worksop, {48a} and there buried; those of some of the leaders were interred in the Hospital of St. John, in Bridge Street, in Northampton;{48b} and others in the Abbey Delapré, adjacent to the field of battle; {48c} but the exact spot where the cemetery of the abbey was situated is not now known. The Duke of Buckingham was of royal lineage, {48d} being the son and heir of Edmund Stafford, fifth Earl of Stafford, by Anne Plantagenet, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of King Edward III. A strange and mournful fatality attended the principal members of the great and powerful family of the Duke of Buckingham, during five generations. The father, son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson, all died violent deaths. Edmund Stafford, fifth Earl of Stafford, was slain fighting on the part of Henry IV., at the battle of Shrewsbury, in 1403; his son, Humphrey Stafford, first Duke of Buckingham, was slain at the battle of Northampton, fighting for the Lancastrian party, in 1460; his son, Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, was slain at the first battle of St. Alban’s, also fighting for that party, in 1455; his son, Henry Stafford, second Duke of Buckingham, was beheaded in the first year of Richard III., in 1483; {49} and his son, Edward Stafford, the third and last Duke of Buckingham of that family, was beheaded in the thirteenth year of Henry VIII., in 1521. I carefully searched for, but could not discover, any remains of intrenchments, and, although I made inquiries, I was unable to learn that any traces of them could be recollected by persons on the spot; but there is sufficiently clear information, given by the old historical writers, to enable a person fond of such investigations, to identify the place where the battle took place; and their accounts show that it was fought close to Northampton, {50a} in the meadows on the southward side of the town, {50a} and of the river Nen or Nene, and adjoining Delapré Abbey, {50a} in the parish of Hardingstone, and near Queen Eleanor’s Cross. {50a} The field of battle is now occupied by beautiful plantations, pleasure-grounds, and a portion of the park of Edward Bouverie, Esq., {50b} formerly part of the meadows before mentioned; and the railway from Northampton to Peterborough, passes over one side of them. The mansion of Delapré Abbey stands upon the site of the old abbey of that name, and some portions of the walls, and two or three small arches or doorways, of the old abbey, are yet to be seen, in the interior of the present mansion.