Note 64c — Chapter IV · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF WAKEFIELD. [53a]
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His body was ultimately interred at Fotheringay. Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 161. Ralph Brooke seems to intend to make a similar statement in his Catalogue of Nobility, fo. 267; and see Sandford’s Genealogical History, p. 373. It was first interred at Pontefract, and afterwards at Fotheringay; and it seems extraordinary that the Lancastrians, who practised such an indignity to his memory, as fixing his head upon the gate of York, should take the trouble of carrying his headless corpse to Pontefract for interment; but we learn from more than one historical source, that the corpse was first buried at Pontefract, and afterwards removed, and interred at Fotheringay. After the battle of Towton, Edward IV. had the Duke of York’s head taken down from York gate, and interred with the body. Leland adverts to the removal of the duke’s body from Pontefract to Fotheringay by Edward IV., as follows:—