[After this tragedy ended, one sayd: “Seeing this duke hath so vehemently exclaimed against the duke ofYorke’spractises, it were well done to heare what hee can say for himselfe. For after the first battaile at SainctAlbane’she was[948]made protectour,[949]which so much greeued queeneMargaretand her complices, that priuy grutches and open dissembling neuer ceased till the duke and his allyes were fayne to flie both field and realme, hee intoIreland, and they toCalais. Whence they came againe with an army, whereofRichard Neuillearle ofSalisburywas leder, and marched towardCouentry, where the king was, and had gathered an army to subdue them, and encountred them atNorthamptonon the 10 day of Iuly in the yeare of grace 1460, fought with them, lost the fielde, and was taken himselfe and many of his friendes slaine, asHumfrey Staffordduke ofBuckingham,Iohn Talbotthe second of that name earle ofShrewesbury,Iohn vicount Beaumont,ThomaslordEgremont, sirWilliam Lucyand diuers other. But ouerpassing all these and many moe because they were honorably slaine in the fielde, let vs come to him who was the chiefe cause thereof, that is to say,Richard Plantagenetduke ofYorkeslaine in the battayl atWakefieldonChristmaseuen, andEdmundearle ofRutlandhis yong sonne, who was there murdered by the lordCliffordas hee would have fled into the towne to haue saued himselfe.
[After this tragedy ended, one sayd: “Seeing this duke hath so vehemently exclaimed against the duke ofYorke’spractises, it were well done to heare what hee can say for himselfe. For after the first battaile at SainctAlbane’she was[948]made protectour,[949]which so much greeued queeneMargaretand her complices, that priuy grutches and open dissembling neuer ceased till the duke and his allyes were fayne to flie both field and realme, hee intoIreland, and they toCalais. Whence they came againe with an army, whereofRichard Neuillearle ofSalisburywas leder, and marched towardCouentry, where the king was, and had gathered an army to subdue them, and encountred them atNorthamptonon the 10 day of Iuly in the yeare of grace 1460, fought with them, lost the fielde, and was taken himselfe and many of his friendes slaine, asHumfrey Staffordduke ofBuckingham,Iohn Talbotthe second of that name earle ofShrewesbury,Iohn vicount Beaumont,ThomaslordEgremont, sirWilliam Lucyand diuers other. But ouerpassing all these and many moe because they were honorably slaine in the fielde, let vs come to him who was the chiefe cause thereof, that is to say,Richard Plantagenetduke ofYorkeslaine in the battayl atWakefieldonChristmaseuen, andEdmundearle ofRutlandhis yong sonne, who was there murdered by the lordCliffordas hee would have fled into the towne to haue saued himselfe.
Therefore imagine that you see a tall man’s body full of fresh woundes, but lacking a head, holding by the hand a goodly childe, whose breast was so wounded that his heart might be seene, his louely face and eyes disfigured with dropping teares, his haire through horror standing vpright, his mercy crauing handes all to bee mangled, and all his body embrued with his owne bloud. Out of the wesand pipe of which headles body came a shreking voice saying as followeth.”]