[58a] See Speed, Stow, Grafton; Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. iii. p. 236, Title “Bonvile”; Sandford’s Genealogical History, pp. 297, 372. Fabyan, however, states it to have been on the 30th of December; and it is so stated twice in Rot. Parl. 1 Edward IV. vol. v. pp. 466, 477.
[58b] Sandford, pp. 297, 373; Baker’s Chronicles. The battle is stated by Hall, Holinshed, Grafton, and Stow, to have taken place upon the plain field or ground between the castle and the town of Wakefield; which corresponds with the place where Wakefield Green was, before it was enclosed.
[58c] William Bonvile, Lord Harrington, married Katharine, fifth daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury; was the son of William Bonvile, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of William Lord Harrington, and was the grandson of William Lord Bonvile, who survived his son and grandson, but was put to death after the second battle of St. Alban’s, in 1460–1. William Bonvile, Lord Harrington, left by Katharine his wife, a daughter, Cecily, who became the wife of Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, and afterwards of Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire.
[58d] Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. (See Chap. II.) In the second year of Edward IV., the Earl of Salisbury’s body, with that of Alice his wife, and that of Thomas his son, were interred at Bisham Abbey, in Berkshire.
[59a] Shakespeare’s Third Part of Henry VI. act. 1, scene 4 (Sandal Castle, near Wakefield).
[59b] See Chap. VI.
[60a] See Chap. VI.
[60b] See Chap. VI.
[60c] Rot. Parl. 1st Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. fo. 447. See Appendix No. 1.
[61a] That was my impression on the occasion of my first visit to Sandal, and I so communicated it in my paper on the Battle of Wakefield, read before the Society of Antiquaries; but after a second and third visit to Sandal, and to the field of battle, I altered my opinion, and I now consider it certain, that the Lancastrians advanced on the westward side of the Calder, and that Wakefield and the bridge were in their possession at the time of the battle.