[127b] It is remarkable that three of the battles during those wars were fought on Sundays, viz., Blore Heath, Towton, and Barnet.
[127c] See some of the instances mentioned in Rot. Parl. 1 Edward IV. (1461), vol. v. fo. 476.
[127d] Voltaire’s Essai sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations, tome xviii. p. 44.
[128a] Hall’s Chronicles (edit. of 1809), fo. 256.
[128b] Shakespeare’s Third Part of King Henry VI. act ii. scene 5.
[131a] The paper upon the Field of the Battle of Tewkesbury was read before a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, on the 8th of March, 1855, and the thanks of the meeting were voted for it to the author.
[131b] I have paid six visits to the field of battle—two in May 1854, two in May 1856, and two in May 1856.
[131c] The authorities for the historical part of this paper are Hall, Holinshed, Stow, Speed; Leland’s Collectanea, vol. ii.; Grafton, Baker, Dugdale, Sandford, and Ralph Brooke.
[132a] The 13th of April is mentioned by some, and the 14th of April by other writers, as the day on which Margaret landed. If, as is probable, it occurred on the 14th of April, it was the same day as that on which the battle of Barnet was fought.
[132b] Queen Margaret, usually called Margaret of Anjou, was daughter of René Duke of Anjou, and was married to Henry VI. on the 22nd of April, 1445.—See Chap. III.