The Battle of Bosworth Field: Between Richard the Third and Henry Earl of Richmond, August 22, 1485 : Wherein is Described the Approach of Both Armies : with a Plan of the Battle, Its Consequences, the Fall, Treatment, and Character of Richard : to which is Prefixed, by Way of Introduction, a History of His Life Till He Assumed the Regal PowerPearson and Rollason, and sold by R. Baldwin ... London, 1788 - 180 ページ |
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46 ページ - In one of the apartments Richard rested that night. The room seems to have been once elegant, though now in disuse. He brought his own bedstead, of wood, large, and in some places gilt. It continued there 200 years after he left the place, and its remains are now in the possession of Alderman Drake. It had a wooden bottom, and under that a false one, of the same materials, like a floor and its under ceiling.
40 ページ - ... that he was arrived without hindrance at Shrewsbury. This caused Richard to perceive that some at least of those whom he thought friends were forsaking him, but he still trusted to collect a sufficient army. He sent hurriedly for the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Earl of Northumberland to join him, and ordered Sir Robert Brackenbury, lieutenant of the Tower, to bring Sir Thomas Boucher and Sir Walter Hungerford, with all the forces they could instantly muster ; for, as he thought...
95 ページ - Richmond having pafled thefe difficulties unmolefted, flowly marched up the afcent, where the wood now {lands, the morafs formed by King Richard's well, being on his right, and the fun, not on his back, or his right hand, but between both; the King's troops looking on with their boWs bent. . • As Henry marched forwards he feemed to drive Sir William before him, for in half an hour he would pafs over -the camp he had quitted. Sir William advanced to the north of the hill, and took his ftation near...
101 ページ - Dicken thy matter is bought and fold;'' but he had taken an oath to Richard, and he could not recede. He revered the King, but lamented the errors of the man,— Oxford, though an enemy, felt for his fall, and declared, " A better knight could not ** die, though he might in a better caufe.
66 ページ - P/ain, from the colour of the foil; as the meadows on the weft are called White-moors for the fame reafon. It belongs to Sutton-Cheney, an adjacent village on the eaft. It is rather of an oval form, about two miles long, and one broad, and is nearly in a line between Bofworth and Atherftone. The fuperficial contents may be fifteen hundred acres, inclofed in a ring fence. Part is wafte land, part in grafs, and part in tillage. The whole whole field is uneven.
75 ページ - Richard was better verfed in arms, Henry was better ferved. Richard was brave, Henry a coward. Richard was about five feet four, rather runted, but only made crooked by his enemies; and wanted fix weeks of thirtythree. Henry was twenty-feven, (lender, and near five feet nine, with a faturnine countenanee, yellow hair, and grey eyes.
46 ページ - He brought his own bedstead, of wood, large, and in some places gilt. It continued there 200 years after he left the place, and its remains are now in the possession of Alderman Drake. It had a wooden bottom, and under that a false one, of the same materials, like a floor and its under ceiling. Between these two bottoms was concealed a quantity of gold coin, worth about 300/.
143 ページ - ... between the houfes of Stuart and Brunfwick, it was fuppofed to be tainted with the fmell of treafon. During the fovereignty of Richard, the White-Boar alfo was a common fign. A compliment was paid him without the houfe, and his health drank within ; but at his death, the landlords took down their WhiteBoars, and where any one omitted it, the fickle multitude pulled it down for him ; and to this day, we often behold the fign of the Black Boar, and the Blue-Boar, but never the white.
67 ページ - Henry is faid to have left on his right. Amyon-hill is nearly in the center of the field, and is by much the higheft ground; the fummit is two or three hundred yards beyond the well. The hill has a fteep defcent on every fide, but is fteepeft towards the north, or the Bofworth fide, and terminates with a rill, a bog, and a flat, called Amyon lays. The field extends F 3 a a mile farther towards Bofworth, but that part was not the fcene of aftion.
71 ページ - ... Stanley five, and Sir William Stanley three. The same impartial and well-informed writer succinctly sums up the respective merits and pretensions of the rivals : " Were I allowed to treat royalty with plainness, Richard was an accomplished rascal, and Henry not one jot better. Which had the greatest right to the crown, is no part of the argument ; neither of them had any. Perhaps their chief difference of character consisted in Richard's murdering two men for Henry's one ; but as a small counterbalance,...