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
According to Stow, {103e} the following persons were slain there:—Henry
Percy, Earl of Northumberland; the Earl of Shrewsbury; {103f} John Lord
Clifford; Lord Beaumont; {103g} John Lord Neville; {104a} Lord
Willoughby; {104b} Lord Welles; {104c} Lord Roos; {104d} Lord Scales;
{105a} Lord Grey; {105b} Lord Dacre; Lord Fitzhugh; {105c} Lord Molineux;
{105d} Lord Henry Buckingham; {106a} of knights, two natural sons of
Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter; Sir Richard Percy; Sir John Heron; {106b}
Sir Gervase Clifton; {106c} Sir Edmund Hammes; Sir Thomas Crackenthorpe;
Sir John Crackenthorpe; Sir William Harill; Sir John Ormond; Sir Andrew
Trollop; Sir Roger Mollyn; Sir Ralph Pigot; Sir Henry Narbohew; Sir David
Trollop; Sir John Burton, Captain of York; and other knights and
esquires. Thomas Earl of Devonshire, {106d} was taken prisoner, and
beheaded by order of Edward, at York.
The act of attainder, {106e} passed against the Lancastrians soon after
the accession to the throne, of Edward IV., professes to give a list of
such of them, as had taken an active part for the House of Lancaster, at
or immediately before or after the battle of Towton. The following is an
extract from it:—
“And where also Henry Duc of Excestr’, Henry Duc of Somerset, Thomas
Courteney late Erle of Devonshire, Henry late Erle of Northumberlond,
William Vicecount Beaumont, Thomas Lord Roos, John late Lord
Clyfford, Leo late Lord Welles, John late Lord Nevill, Thomas Gray
Knyght Lord Rugemond Gray, Randolf late Lord Dacre, Humphrey Dacre
Knyght, John Morton {107a} late Person of Blokesworth, in the shire
of Dorset Clerk; Rauff Makerell, late Person of Ryseby, in the shire
of Suff’ Clerk; Thomas Mannyng late of New Wyndesore in Berkshire
Clerk, John Whelpdale late of Lychefeld in the Counte of Stafford
Clerk, John Nayler late of London Squier, John Preston late of
Wakefeld in the shire of York Preest, Philip Wentworth Knyght, John
Fortescu {107b} Knyght, William Tailboys Knyght, Edmund Mountford
Knyght, Thomas Tresham Knyght, William Vaux Knyght, Edmund Hampden
Knyght, Thomas Fyndern Knyght, John Courteney Knyght, Henry Lewes
Knyght, Nicholas Latymer Knyght, Waltier Nuthill, late of Ryston in
Holdernes, in the shire of York, Squier, John Heron of the Forde
Knyght, Richard Tunstall Knyght, Henry Belyngeham Knyght, Robert
Whityngham Knyght, John Ormond otherwise called John Botillier
Knyght, William Mille Knyght, Symonde Hammes Knyght, William Holand
Knyght, called the Bastard of Excestr’, William Josep’ late of London
Squier, Everard Dykby late of Stokedry in the shire of Ruthlond
Squier, John Myrfyn late of Suthwerk in the shire of Suit’ Squier,
Thomas Philip late of Dertyngton in Devonshire Squier, Thomas
Brampton late of Guysnes Squier, Giles Seyntlowe late of London
Squier, Thomas Claymond, the seid Thomas Tunstall Squier, Thomas
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