YORKSHIRE BATTLES.
BY
EDWARD LAMPLOUGH.
AUTHOR OF
“THE SIEGE OF HULL,” “MEDIÆVAL YORKSHIRE,”
“HULL AND YORKSHIRE FRESCOES,” ETC.
HULL:
WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO.
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
Limited,
1891.
HULL:
WILLIAM ANDREWS AND CO.
PRINTERS,
DOCK STREET.
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To The Rev. E. G. CHARLESWORTH, VICAR OF ACKLAM, A CONTRIBUTOR TO AND LOVER OF YORKSHIRE LITERATURE, This Volume IS Most Respectfully Inscribed. E. L. |
[Contents.]
| PAGE | ||
| I.— | Winwidfield, etc. | [1] |
| II.— | Battle of Stamford Bridge | [15] |
| III.— | After Stamford Bridge | [36] |
| IV.— | Battle of the Standard | [53] |
| V.— | After the Battle of the Standard | [75] |
| VI.— | Battle of Myton Meadows | [83] |
| VII.— | Battle of Boroughbridge | [101] |
| VIII.— | Battle of Byland Abbey | [116] |
| IX.— | In the Days of Edward III. and Richard II. | [131] |
| X.— | Battle of Bramham Moor | [139] |
| XI.— | Battle of Sandal | [150] |
| XII.— | Battle of Towton | [165] |
| XIII.— | Yorkshire under the Tudors | [173] |
| XIV.— | Battle of Tadcaster | [177] |
| XV.— | Battle of Leeds | [183] |
| XVI.— | Battle of Wakefield | [187] |
| XVII.— | Battle of Adwalton Moor | [192] |
| XVIII.— | Battle of Hull | [196] |
| XIX.— | Battle of Selby | [199] |
| XX.— | Battle of Marston Moor | [203] |
| XXI.— | Battle of Brunanburgh | [216] |
| XXII.— | Fight off Flamborough Head | [221] |
| Index | [227] |
[Preface.]
In the history of our national evolution Yorkshire occupies a most important position, and the sanguinary record of Yorkshire Battles possesses something more than material for the poet and the artist. Valour, loyalty, patriotism, honour and self-sacrifice are virtues not uncommon to the warrior, and the blood of true and brave men has liberally bedewed our fields.
It was on Yorkshire soil that the tides of foreign invasion were rolled back in blood at Stamford Bridge and Northallerton; the misfortunes attendant upon the reign of weak and incapable princes are illustrated by the fields of Boroughbridge, Byland Abbey, and Myton-upon-Swale, and, in the first days of our greatest national struggle, the true men of Yorkshire freely shed their blood at Tadcaster, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Adwalton Moor and Hull, keeping open the pathway by which Fairfax passed from Selby to Marston Moor.
Let pedants prate of wars of kites and crows; we take national life as a unity, and dare to face its evolution through all the throes of birth, owning ourselves debtors to the old times before us, without being either so unwise or ungenerous as to contemn the bonds of association, and affect a false and impossible isolation.
To the educated and intelligent our Yorkshire Battles present interesting and important studies of those subtle and natural processes by which nations achieve liberty, prosperity, and greatness.
E. L.
Hull Literary Club,
January 6th, 1891.