[2a] Sir Thomas Percy, Knight, a younger brother of Henry Percy, first Earl of Northumberland, was created Earl of Worcester and Lord High Admiral of England in 1397, and taken prisoner at the battle of Shrewsbury, and beheaded in that town in 1403.
[2b] Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 186; Carte’s History of England, vol. ii. p. 659. The battle is stated, in Gough’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, vol. ii. p. 418, to have “began in Oldfield or Bulfield, a little north of the north gate, and raged as far as what is now called Battlefield.” In Stow’s Annals the place is “called Oldfield, alias Bulfield, not farre from a place called Barwike.”
[2c] The 22nd of May, according to Dugdale, vol. i. p. 166 and 342, and Sandford, p. 321; but the 23rd of May, according to Fabyan, Hall, Holinshed, and Grafton.
[3a] The accounts are but meagre and incomplete respecting the precise object of the insurrection; but it is usually treated by historical writers as having been set on foot with a view to dethrone Henry IV., and to place Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, a descendant of Lionel Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III., upon the throne of England.
[3b] Hall, Holinshed, Grafton.
[4a] Holinshed, Walsingham.
[4b] Hall, Holinshed, Grafton.
[4c] Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 185.
[4d] A proclamation of Henry, issued at Burton-upon-Trent on the 16th of July, on the occasion of the rebellion of Percy, has been preserved.—See Rymer’s Fædera, vol. viii. fo. 313.
[4e] A proclamation or royal mandate was issued at Lichfield by Henry, on the 17th of July.—See Rymer’s Fædera, vol. viii. fol. 314.