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
Sir William Wichingham.
John Delves the elder, slain in the field, and
John Delves his son, beheaded there, buried together, afterwards
removed elsewhere. {147a}
Sir John Lukenor, slain in the field, and buried near the Delves.
Sir William Vaux, slain in the field, and buried there.
Sir Gervase Clifton, taken, beheaded, and buried there.
Sir William Car, and Sir Henry Ros, taken, and beheaded, buried in the
Cemetery of Tewkesbury.
Sir Thomas Tresham, taken, beheaded, and buried there.
Sir William Lirmouthe, Sir John Urman, Sir Thomas Semar
[_Quære_—Seymour?], Sir William Rowys, slain in the field, and buried
in the cemetery there.
Sir William Newborrow, taken and beheaded, and buried there.
Henry Wateley, Esquire, slain and buried there.
Henry Barrow, Esquire, slain and buried there.
— Fielding, Esquire, slain and buried there.
John Gower, sword-bearer of Prince Edward.
John Flore, standard-bearer of the Duke of Somerset, Henry Tresham,
Walter Courtenay, and Robert Acton, taken and beheaded.
The Prior of St. John’s, taken and beheaded; whose body was removed to
his own friends at London.
Hugh Courtenay, taken, and afterwards beheaded. {148a}
Life spared by King Edward, to each of the under-mentioned personages:—
Queen Margaret.
Anne, wife of the slain Prince Edward.
Foster, Chief Justice of England.
Doctor Mackerell, John Throgmorton, Baynton, and Wroughton. {148a}
Tewkesbury is a small town, situated ten miles from Gloucester, and eight
from Cheltenham, close to the confluence of the Severn and one of the
Avons. “It standeth in _lævâ ripâ Avonæ_, a good flite shot above the
confluence of Avon and Severne.”
“Ther is a greate bridge of stone at the northe ende of the towne,
and ther a little above the bridge, Avon brekith into 2 armes. Yet
the bridge is so large that both cum under it. The right arme
cummith into Severne withyn a flite shot of the bridge, and at the
point of this arme is the towne key for shippes callid Pickardes.”
“The other arme commith downe by the side of the towne, and the
Abbay, leving it on the este, and so passing harde ther by Holme
Castelle goith into Severne.” {149a}
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