Item, Thorp Waterfeld is yeldyn, as Spordauns can telle you. And Jesu spede you. We pray you that this tydyngs my moder may knowe. Be your Broder, W. Paston. T. Playters.
‘On a piece of paper pinned to the above letter,’ says Fenn, ‘is a list of the names of the noblemen and knights, and the number of soldiers slain at the above battle of Towton, as follow:—’
Comes Northumbriæ.
Comes Devon.
Dominus de Beamunde.
Dominus de Clifford.
Dominus de Nevyll.
Dominus de Dacre.
Dominus Henricus de Bokyngham.
Dominus de Well[es].