[115] Grafton, Henry VI, year xxvii.
[116] Hall.
[117] The whole country being disaffected and ready--as the events of the autumn proved--to revolt in favour of Warwick or Henry VI, the suppression of the Lincolnshire rebellion and the expulsion of the King-maker were remarkable achievements.
[118] This must have been in the Stroudwater, as Edward marched from Wooton-under-Edge by Stroud and Painswick on Cheltenham.
[119] Somerset attributed this to treachery on the part of Lord Wenlock, commander of the ‘centre-battle,’ who was a follower of Warwick and not an old Lancastrian. Escaping from the advancing Yorkists he rode up to Wenlock, and, without speaking a word, brained him with his battle-axe.
[120] Grafton.
[121] Edward IV is said to have had in his employment in 1470 a small corps of Germans with ‘hand-guns.’ Better known is the band of 2000 hackbut-men which the Earl of Lincoln brought to Stoke in 1487. The name of their leader, Martin Schwart, survives in the ballads of the day.
[122] For an excellent description of Hussite tactics, see Denis, Hus et la Guerre des Hussites.
[123] At the first battle of Kossova we know that the allied Servians and Bosnians outnumbered the Turks.
[124] Already since the middle of the 15th century known as ‘Hussars.’