[189] Lel. Col. vol. iv. p. 213. See Appendix No. IV.
[190] I have paid four visits to the field of the battle of Stoke, viz., in June, 1823; June, 1824; August, 1825; and September, 1827.
[191a] A passage, calculated to mislead, exists in a work, called The Beauties of England and Wales. It contains an assertion, unsupported by any proof, “that the battle must have been fought in the plain, between Stoke and Thorpe, rather than Stoke and Elston.” The clear and unqualified statements of the old chroniclers and annalists, that it was fought at Stoke, the evidence of the relics dug up, and the tradition of the neighbourhood, make it however quite certain that it could not have been fought in the place suggested in that work.
[191b] Rot. Parl. 17 Edward IV. and 1 Richard III.
[191c] Ralph Brooke, Sandford, Dugdale, Baker.
[192a] Dugdale, Speed.
[192b] Buck.
[192c] Of coarse, I pay no attention to Henry’s proclamation, published in Drake’s Eboracum, p. 122, which is so incorrect, as to assert, that the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Surrey, and Lord Lovel, were slain there.
[192d] Rot. Parl. 1 Henry VII., vol. vi. See Appendix No. III.
[192e] See 4 Lel. Coll. p. 210. He also attended Henry VII. in his first progress into Yorkshire. See 4 Lel. Coll. p. 186.