Note 5c — Chapter I

Stow’s Annals, Speed’s History. It is stated in Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, although their authority for it does not seem altogether satisfactory, that Percy retired to a place called Bull Field, a short distance from Shrewsbury, an extensive common, which stretched from Upper Berwick to the east, and to have encamped there during the night of the 19th, and to have marched the next day by Harlescot and Abright Hussee, to Hateley Field, where he made a stand at the spot now called Battlefield.—See Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 186, 187.