Note 62 — Chapter IV · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF WAKEFIELD. [53a]

Leland, in his quaint language, gives a tolerably accurate account of the place where the battle was fought, when he says:—“There was a sore Batell faught in the South Feeldes by this Bridge, and yn the flite of the Duke of Yorkes parte, other the Duke hymself or his Sone the erle of Rutheland was slayne a litle above the Barres beyond the Bridge going up into the Toune of Wakefeld that standith ful fairely upon a clyving ground. At this place is set up a crosee, ‘in rei memoriam,’”—Leland’s Itinerary, vol. i. fo. 34 [40].