[186i] Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 299. There was also another person of the name of Brandon, and probably of the same family—Robert Brandon, who appears to have distinguished himself at the battle of Stoke, because he was knighted on the occasion.—See Leland’s Collectanea, vol. iv. p. 210, Appendix No. IV.
[186j] Rot. Parl. 3 Henry VII. part 15, vol. vi. fo. 397. See Appendix No. V. But see Rot. Parl. 11 Henry VII. vol. vi. fo. 502. Appendix No. VI., where the 20th of June is mentioned as the date of the battle.
[187a] Rot. Parl. 3 Henry VII., vol. vi. fo. 397. See Appendix No. V. See also Hutton’s Bosworth Field, pp. 82, 97: An act of attainder was passed against the adherents of Richard III., after the battle of Bosworth, which mentions the use of guns amongst other arms, by them.—Rot. Parl. 1 Henry VII., vol. vi. p. 276. See Appendix No. III.
[187b] Hall, Holinshed, Bacon, Pol. Virgil, Baker.
[187c] Lambert Simnel was made a turnspit in the King’s kitchen, and was afterwards made a falconer; the priest, his tutor, was never again heard of.
[188a] Lelandi Collectanea, p. 214. See Appendix No. IV. and No. VII.
[188b] Hall’s Chronicles, and Bacon, mention a rumour of his being drowned in swimming the Trent; but the latter adds, “But another report leaves him not there, but that he lived long after, in a cave or vault;” and in the 2nd volume, p. 321, Banks’s Dormant and Extinct Baronage, is a copy of a letter, dated 1737, from William Cooper, Esq., clerk of the Parliament, detailing some interesting particulars of the discovery, in 1708, of a human skeleton, in a vault at Minster Lovel, in Oxfordshire, which formerly belonged to Lord Lovel, supposed by many, to be the remains of that unfortunate nobleman. See Appendix No. VII.
[188c] Buck’s Life of Richard III.
[188d] Hall, Holinshed, Dugdale.—See Chap. VIII.
[188e] Hall, Dugdale’s Baronage.