Note 44a — Chapter III · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF NORTHAMPTON. [39a]

“She caused her army to issue out of the towne and to passe the ryver of Nene; and there in the newe felde, betweene Harsyngton [Hardingstone] and Sandifford, the capitaynes strongely emparked themselfes with high bankes and depe trenches.”—Hall’s Chronicles, fo. 176. See a similar account in Holinshed’s Chronicles, fo. 654. The meadows and Delapré Abbey are in the pariah of Hardingstone. I have not been able to learn that there is any place or ford there, called Sandiford. It probably was a ford of the river Nen, the name and situation of which are now forgotten.