[85b] Edward Prince of Wales, the only child of Henry VI. and Queen Margaret, was born on the 13th of October, 1453; created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on the 15th of March, in the thirty second year of Henry VI.; and was murdered after the battle of Tewkesbury, on the 4th of May, 1471.—See Chaps. III. and VII.; and Pedigree No. 1, Chap. IX.
[86a] See observations in a note infra in this chapter, respecting Lord Fitzwalter.
[86b] John Lord Clifford was the son of Thomas Lord Clifford, who was slain at the first battle of St. Alban’s, in 1455.—See Chap. IV.
[86c] Hall, Holinshed, Grafton.
[87a] “This feeld was as much fought in Saxton Paroch, as in Towton, yet it berith the name of Towton.”—Leland’s Itinerary, vol. i. fo. 47.
[87b] Rot. Parl. 1 Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. fo. 478. Appendix No. 1.
[87c] In order to avoid a repetition of references, the authorities referred to in this paper for the historical facts, are Hall, Holinshed, Leland, Speed, Stow, Dugdale, John Habington, Hist. Croy. Cont., Francis Biondi, Fabyan, Grafton, Baker, and Rotuli Parl.
[88a] Upon this eminence, close to the village, is a small wood called Benshar Wood.
[88b] I could not learn anything respecting the comparative antiquity of the bridge, but I consider it very improbable that there was any bridge over the Cock in 1461.
[89] I visited the bridge and the river Cock at Stutton, in 1849. I consider it very probable that a portion of the Lancastrians, in retreating, passed the Cock at that place either by a bridge or ford.