Gairdner J. History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third: To which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents

Подождите немного. Документ загружается.

360 APPENDIX.

•that Richard could have conducted no heavy artillery from

Leicester to Bosworth field in his one day's march, and there

seems really to be evidence that in this matter his opponent

had the advantage of him. See my paper on the Battle of

Bosworth in Archaologia, vol. lv. pp. 159-178.

This ballad begins with a welcome to King Henry who

had been three times bought and sold in foreign lands; then

describes how he prayed to have the help of Lord Stanley and

Sir William; but the wicked Councillors who ruled Richard III.

told him he must have some hold on Lord Stanley, Lord Strange

and 'the Chamberlain' (which evidently means Sir William

Stanley, though he was only made King's Chamberlain by

Henry VII.

). Lord Stanley, when sent for by Richard, fell

sick at Manchester and sent Lord Strange in his place; whom

Richard received with fair words but put in prison. Then

new messengers were sent both to Lord Stanley and to Sir

William to oppose Richmond, otherwise Strange was in danger.

Richard swears he will still be king, leave no Lancashire squires

alive, and devastate Wales. He sends for his noblemen all

over England and there come to him the Duke of Norfolk, the

Earls of Surrey, Kent, Shrewsbury, Lincoln, Northumberland

and a long roll of others, both noblemen and knights, the

catalogue of whom in verse fills four pages. Two shires alone

fight for Henry (Cheshire and Lancashire, the counties where

the Stanleys were all powerful). Lord Stanley set out from

Lathom Castle on a Monday (15 August?) with a company of

knights and squires to maintain the cause of King Henry.

He took his way by Newcastle under Lyne and paid his men.

Sir William rode from Holt to Nantwich and paid his men,

bringing with him nearly all North Wales and the flower of

Cheshire. Early on Tuesday morning he removed from

This anachronism is like others that we have seen. Mr Adams

evidently forgot this characteristic of these ballads when he suggested that

the Chamberlain in question was the Earl of Oxford, Great Chamberlain of

England.

BALLAD OF BOSWORTH FIELD. 361

Nantwich to Stone; by which time Henry was come to Stafford,

and thither Sir William went to him. Henry took him by the

hand and said 'Through the help of my lord thy father' (an

error for ' brother') ' and thee, I trust in England to continue

King.' (The word 'continue' is remarkable, for though the

language of the ballad is generally slipshod, it seems here to

agree with Henry's own pretension to have been king for some

indefinite time before the battle of Bosworth.) Sir William

took leave of Henry 'and came again by light of day to the

little pretty town of Stone.' On Saturday morning

they

removed to Lichfield.

'Att Woosley bridge them beforne

There they had a sight of our Kinge.'

They rode on to Lichfield with a goodly company:—

' Guns in Lichefeild they cracken on hye

To cheere the Countrye both more and min,

And glad was all the Chivalrye

That was on Heneryes part our Kinge.

He rides through Lichfield, and on the other side receives

a messenger who tells him that Lord Stanley is near the enemy

and will fight him within three hours. To prevent this he

takes his way through Tamworth to ' Hattersey' (Atherstone)

and joins Lord Stanley in a dale, where they remain all night.

They see God's service on Sunday and array them towards the

field, Lord Stanley taking the 'vaward,' Sir William the rear,

and his son Sir Edward a wing. They waited the coming of

King Richard; then looked to a forest side, where they heard

trumpets and tabors which they thought were Richard's, but it

was King Henry. ' He' (apparently Lord Stanley is meant)

rides over a river to him. Henry desired the 'vaward' of

Lord Stanley; which he gave him, with four good knights,

Sir Robert Tunstall, Sir John Savage, Sir Hugh Persall and

Saturday would be the 20th, but the day is wrong, for Henry himself

must certainly have arrived at Lichfield on Thursday the 18th.

362 APPENDIX.

Sir Humphrey Stanley. Lord Stanley took two battalions and

Sir William led the rear. Sir William who (afterwards) that

day 'came betime unto our King,'

—' Removed into a mountain full hye

And looked into a dale fful dread.

Five miles compass no ground they see,

For armed men and trapped steeds.'

They were in four battalions. The Duke of Norfolk advanced

his banner and so did the young Earl of Shrewsbury (but

Norfolk was really on Richard's side and Shrewsbury a minor,

though he may have gone with his uncle Sir Gilbert Talbot):—

' Soe did Oxfford that Erie in companye.'

King Richard's ordnance are described:

'They had seven score sarpendines without dout

That were locked and chained uppon a row;

As many bombards that were stout;

Like blasts of thunder they did blow.

10,000 morespikes with all

And harquebusiers throwlye can the' thringe,

To make many a noble man to flail

That was on Henerys part our Kinge.'

King Richard looked on the mountains high and said, 'I

see the banner of Lord Stanley. Fetch hither Lord Strange,

for he shall die this day.' They brought Strange into his sight

and he was told to make ready for death. He sends a message

by a squire, with a ring from his ringer, to his men and to his

lady, who if the field was lost was to convey his eldest son

abroad.

The battle is then described and the names of the slain

recounted. Among these were the standard-bearers of both

kings.

Sir Percival Thriball, Richard's standard-bearer kept

the standard till both his legs were hewn off. Henry was

crowned upon a mountain. The host rode to Leicester that

night and brought King Richard thither and laid him in

'Newark' (the Newarke).

KNIGHTS MADE BY HENRY VII. 363

NOTE

VIII.

KNIGHTS MADE BY HENRY VII. BEFORE AND

AFTER THE BATTLE.

(See page 242.)

[Harl. MS. 78, f. 31, beginning on the obverse.]

The names of the Knyghtz made by our Soverayn

Lord Kyng Henry the VII.

Sir Edward Courteney Erll of Devenshire porte

dor iij toutbe...(?)

Lord Shande of Savoy, after great

erll of Bathe.

Sir John Vycount Welles port esquately* au premer quartier

a ung lyon adoble genee de sable, au ij

de genlis a ung fesse

dancee entre vj croix croixseletz dor.

Sir John Cheney berith quarterly in the furst quar[ter]

saphir vj lyonceux perlle a canton hermyn; in the ij

ermyn

a cheffe entented topas and ruby and a pon the topas a rose

ruby; apon all a cressant topas.

Sir David Owen ruby a cheveron dyamont betwene iij

helmetz peril apon all a baton in billike topas.

Sir Edward Ponynges berith quarterly in furst qua[ter]

topas and emeraud barres of vj peeces, a pon all a baton

in bend ruby, in the

ruby iij lyonceux passantz peril.

Sir John Fort escu bereth saphir a bend engraylid peril a

ung molet dyamont entre ij baton in bend topas.

Sir James Blount berith quarterly of iiij cotz in the furst

peril ij loups passantz dyamont with a bordure of the feld

Sic, 'great' for

create.

Sic, for escarteli.

364 APPENDIX.

semed with sawters genlis; in the ij

pe[rll] j chateau saphir;

in the

iij

topas iij barres vnde dyamont; in the iiij verree

berree vuudee de topas et dyamont de vj peeces.

Vocabulorum

quondam

exposicio

Wryth*.

Sir Rychard Gyfford port esquartele, au premere quartier

dor vne saultier entre qua[tre] marletz de sable; au ij

quartier

dargent vne chiffe de sable a ung bend[e] engraille de gulz.

Sir John Halwy

port esquartile an (sic) premier quartier

dor a vne bende de sable surle le bend iij cheniers argent

cornees et armes dor; au ij

dargent vne cheveron, sus le

cheveron iij bezants.

Sir John Ryseley dergent et dazure barre de x pieces a ung

griffon dor menbree armee de gulz sus lespoulle vne cressant

de gulz.

Sir William Brandon port dargent et de gulz berre ut

supra

a ung lyon dor corone du champe.

Sir John Treury port de sable ung cheveron entre iij

chaynes arbres dargent.

Sir William Tyler port de vert a ung baton in bend dargent

en iij chinylle de teygeill dor (in margin: tyle pyns).

Sir Thomas Mylborn dargent a vne croix patee de sable.

Knyghtz made at the batell of Redmore.

Sir Gilbert Tabot port de vj cotz, le premier dazure a ung

lyon et une bordure; au ij

de gulz a vng lyon a ung bordure

engraylie dor; au iij degulz vne saultre dargent, sus le saultier

Sic, qn. pro quorundam ?

This heading seems to be quite inappropriate, and evidently

transcribed out of place.

No doubt Sir John Halwell, who was Sheriff of Devonshire in the

1st year of Henry VII.

KNIGHTS MADE BY HENRY VII. 365

ung marlet de sable; au quatier

{sic)

dargent une bend entree

vj marletz de gulz; au*v dor a une frete de gulz; an

{sic)

dargent a deux lyenceux passant dargent.

Sir John Mortimer berith saphir iij barres in the chiffe ij

palis ij gyrons topas apon all a in schochin ermyn.

Sir Res vap

Thomas port dargent vne cheveron entre iij

corbeaux de sable.

Sir Robert Pointz port esquattile, au premier quartier

esquartile dargent et dazure ententee; au ij

de gulz et dor

esquartile a vng baton in bend dargent sus le premier, vz de

gulz.

Sir Humffrey Stanley port esquartile, au premier quartier es-

quartiele dargent a vne bend dazure, sus le bend iij testis de

cerf dor; au second dor iij platz sus vng chiffe dazure ententie;

au second pryncipalle quartier dor a vng cheveron de gulz

entre iij marletz sabes; au iij dazur deux flentz in cheveron, le

champe semee de crox crossletz dor; au quatier quartier de

gulz a trois leonceug passantz dargent.

Sir.

INDEX.

Aberdeen, bishop of. See Elphin-

stone

Aberdeen, burgh of, 300

Albany, Alexander, duke of, brother

of James III.,

39-41,

112, 175-9

Alcock, John, bishop of Worcester,

43-

45. 56, 162

Aldgate, 16

Alfonso II., king of Naples, 285

All Hallows Barking, Richard's

college at, 247

Almazan, Spanish secretary of state,

279

Ambien Hill, near Market Bosworth,

235

Amiens, Richard visits Lewis XI.

at, 28

Andre, Bernard, his Life of Henry

VII., 258, 265,

270-1,

287 note

Angiers, 169

Angus, Archibald Douglas, earl of

(Bell-the-Cat), 40, 176, 299, 315

Anjou, duchy of, 168

Annaghdowne, bishop of (Thos.

Baret),

181

Anne, duchess of Buckingham, sister

of Richard, duke of York, 6

Anne, duchess of Exeter, daughter

of Richard, duke of York, 4, 5

Anne, daughter of Edward IV.,

165

Anne, of Brittany, queen of

Lewis XII., 318

Anne (Nevill), queen of Richard

III.,

younger daughter of the

earl of Warwick, first betrothed

to Edward, prince of Wales, 19;

sought in marriage by Richard

as duke of Gloucester, 20-24

arrives in London, 58; at her hus-

band's coronation,

IOI

; crowned

along with him,

102—3;

keeps

Christmas with him, 194; her

death anticipated, 203, 204 note;

dies,

205;

rumour that she had been

poisoned by her husband, 206

Antwerp, commercial treaty made

at, 174; Perkin Warbeck at, 283,

33°

Ap Howell, Hopkyn, 342

Ap Jenkyn, Edward, 342

— John, 342

— Robert, 342

— Thomas, 342

Ap Meredith, John, 214

Ap Morgan, Richard LI., 342

— Thomas, 342

Ap Thomas, Rice, 215-6, 355;

Welsh account of his dealings

with Richmond and Richard III.,

217-221;

trusted by Richard,

226;

knighted, 246, 365

Argyle, earl of, 175, 179

Arras,

treaty of, 171

Arthur, prince, son of Henry VII.,

•264,

312-3,

326

Arundel, William FitzAlan, 15th

earl of (ob. 1487), 56

368

INDEX.

Ashton, Sir Ralph, appointed vice-

constable of England, 136, 147;

his commission renewed, 208

Astelay, Nicholas, councillor of

Perkin Warbeck, 328 note

Astwood, Thomas, adherent of

Warbeck, 287

Atherstone, meeting of Richmond

and the Stanleys at, 230; the

former encamps there, 234-5

Athole, earl of, uncle of James III.,

175

Audley, Edmund, bp of Rochester, 56

Aurum Regince, 99 note

Avondale, lord, chancellor of Scot-

land, 175

Ayala, Pedro de, Spanish ambas-

sador in Scotland, 314-8, 320-1

Ayr, Warbeck sails from, 317

Ayton, Staffordshire, 128

Ay ton, in Scotland, treaty of, 317

Bacon's History of Henry VII., 123,

125,

244, 263-4,

269-271,

286

Banaster, Ralph, 138

Banbury, n

Baret, Thomas, bishop of Annagh-

downe, 181

Barley, William, 286, 292

Barnard castle, lordship of, 36;

college founded there by Richard

III.,

37, 247, 338; office in, 128

Barnet, battle of (1471), 8, 11

Barowe, Thomas, Master of the

Rolls,

225

Barton, Andrew and Robert, Scotch

sea-captains, 317, 319, 323

Bath, bishop of. See Stillington,

Robert; King, Oliver

Bath, earl of. See Shaunde, Phili-

bert de

Baynard's castle in London, the

mansion of Cecily, duchess of

York, 56, 80, 93, 97, 114, 156

Beauchamp, John, lord (ob. 1475)130

Beaudeley, bridge at, 251

Beaufort family legitimated by Rich-

ard II., 107, 108 note

Beaufort, Edmund and John. See

Somerset

Beaulieu, sanctuary of, 22-5, 147;

Warbeck takes refuge there, 327-8

Beaulieu, abbot of, 147

Bedford, Jaquetta, duchess of, mother

of Elizabeth Woodville, 22 note,

Bele,

Richard, 148

Benevolences, 26, 28; abolished by

parliament, 161; a forced loan

adopted in their place, 195-9

Berghes, Henry de, bishop of Cam-

bray, 333

Berkshire, rising in, 133, 158

Berlo, a merchant of Tournay, 330

Berwick delivered to the Scots, 8;

the town taken by Richard, 40;

and then the castle, 41; bargain

for its redelivery to the Scots,

3°5> 3°9. 3'°

Bestwood (formerly Beskwood),near

Nottingham, 226, 233 note

Bishops, Richard's circular to the,

164

Bishopsgate, 16

Blackfriars, London, 17

Blackheath, battle of (1497), 315

Blanc Sanglier, pursuivant, 244-5

Blount, James, governor of Hammes

castle, 199, 200; knighted, 363

Bodmin, Cornwall, 126

Bohun, Mary, inheritance of, 106

Boleyn, Anne, 89, 93 note

Bolman, Robert, 148

Bordeaux, piracies at, 294

Bosworth, battle of, 3, 124, 130,

234-244, 249, 253; ballad of

Bosworth Field, 359-362

Bothe, Sir Philip, 194

Bothwell, John Ramsay, lord, his

machinations against James IV.,

299,

304-5

Boulogne, siege of, by Henry VII.,

274

Bourbon, Pierre,, duke of, 313

Bourchier, Sir John, 212

Bourchier, Thos., abp of Canter-

bury and cardinal, 56, 76, 77,

102,

114, 148, 248

Bourchier, Sir Thomas, 227, 231

Bourdeau, Jean, 330

INDEX.

369

Bowles, Sir Thomas, 342

Bracher, two gentlemen named, 245

Brackenbury, Sir Robert, Constable

of the

Tower,

IIG.-[22,

128, 226,

231,

234, 346; killed at Bosworth,

242

Bramburgh, John, 150

Brampton, Edward, 59; Sir Edward,

267

Brandon, Thomas, 200; William,

343;

Sir William, 364; killed by

Richard III. at Bosworth, 242;

note on the two Sir William

Brandons, id.

Bray, Reginald, 215, 244; knighted,

246

Bread Street, Compter in, 99

Brecknock, 108, 134, 138, 158, 219,

221

Brent, Robert, 343

Brereton, Humph., a servant of lord

Stanley, 345, 351-5, 359

Bridget, daughter of Edward IV.,

165

Britanny, 114, 142, 151-2; Richard

assists the Duchy, 172

— ships of, 149, 150-1

— Francis II., duke of, 142,

150,

167-170, 172, 237

— English refugees in, 150,

167-170

Broke. See Willoughby de Broke

Brown (Broun), Anthony, 343

Browne, Sir Geo., of Betchworth,

attainted, 158-9

Buchan, earl of, uncle of James III.,

175.

'77

Buck, Sir George, antiquary, 90,

92,

203, 204 note

Buckingham, Anne, duchess of,

sister of Richard, duke of York,

Buckingham, Henry, second duke

of, 32, 47, 97; his meeting with

Gloucester and Rivers at North-

ampton, 49-52; accompanies Ed-

ward V. to London, 54; at meet-

ing of Edward IV.'s executors,

56;

proposes to lodge Edward V.

in the Tower, 57; alleged con-

spiracy against him and Glou-

cester, 60, 68; they receive the

duke of York, 77

;

his followers,

79;

addresses the mayor and

citizens at the Guildhall, 82-84,

89,

93, 140; forces summoned by

him from Wales, 94; his alliance

with Richard III., 96, 100; takes

part in Richard's coronation,

101,

102; accompanies him to

Gloucester, 115; retires to Breck-

nock, ib; is disaffected, 104-108;

his conversations with Morton,

108-111,

131; his motives, 115,

116,140-1;

organizes conspiracies

against Richard, n8,

130-1;

pro-

claimed leader of a rebellion,

133-5;

ce set

upon his head,

136;

his forces, 137, 142; his

failure, 138, 219; betrayed to the

sheriff of Shropshire, 138, 225;

beheaded, 139-141, 152; attain-

ted

Parliament, 158; his widow,

250-

Buckingham, Edward, third duke

of (son of the preceding), 83

note, 108 note, 140, 287, 327

Bulmer, Sir William, 356

Burgh, Sir Thomas, 339

Burgundy, Charles the Bold, duke

of, 8, 26-28, 173, 291

Burgundy, Duchess of. See Mar-

garet, 3rd daughter of Richard,

Duke of York

Burgundy, Mary of, sole dau. and

heiress of Charles, 30, 172, 291

Burgundy, Philip the Good, duke

of, 7

Burton, William, 252

Busleiden, Francis de, provost of

Liege, afterwards bishop of Be-

san$on, 290

Butler, Arnold, 216, 220

Butler, dame Eleanor, daughter of

the earl of Shrewsbury, 88-92

Butler, Sir Piers (afterwards earl of

Ormond), 324

Cadwallader, 223

Caen stone, 251