Note 2b — Chapter I

Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 186; Carte’s History of England, vol. ii. p. 659. The battle is stated, in Gough’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, vol. ii. p. 418, to have “began in Oldfield or Bulfield, a little north of the north gate, and raged as far as what is now called Battlefield.” In Stow’s Annals the place is “called Oldfield, alias Bulfield, not farre from a place called Barwike.”