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Title: Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century to which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers
Release Date: October 21, 2018 [eBook #58147]
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***Transcribed from the 1857 John Russell Smith edition by David Price, email [email protected] Many thanks to the Bodleian / British Library for the scans of the book.
VISITS TO FIELDS OF BATTLE, IN ENGLAND, OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY;
TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SOME MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS AND PAPERS UPON ARCHÆOLOGICAL SUBJECTS.
LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. LIVERPOOL: J. MAWDSLEY AND SON, CASTLE STREET. M DCCC LVII.
LONDON; F. PICKTON, Printer, Perry’s Place, 29, Oxford Street
IN the course of the fifteenth century, England experienced, in a lamentable degree, the sad effects of internal discord, and the miseries caused by the conflicts of adverse factions.
It is scarcely possible, for historians to point out, in the annals of any country in Europe, in the feudal ages, deeds of violence and bloodshed, of a more appalling nature, than those which the chroniclers have recorded, as having occurred in England, during the period which intervened between the years 1400 and 1500—a period memorable for the sanguinary wars of York and Lancaster. During the continuance of those disastrous conflicts, thousands of brave men perished in arms, the axe of the executioner was seldom idle, great numbers of the nobility and gentry lost their lives in the field or upon the scaffold, property was usurped in consequence of wholesale confiscations, numberless innocent lives were sacrificed, and many happy homes were outraged.