Note 50a — Chapter III · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF NORTHAMPTON. [39a]
Reading edition
Hall, Holinshed; Leland’s Itinerary, vol. i. fo. 9 [10]. “The King, lying in the Friers at Northampton, ordained a strong and mighty field in the meadows beside the Nunry, having the river at his back.”—Stow’s Annals, fo. 409.