Note 167c — Chapter VIII · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH. [157a]

Sir John Savage, commonly called “Sir John Savage, Junior,” of Clifton, now usually called Rock Savage, in Cheshire, was a nephew of Thomas Lord Stanley, and had the command of Henry’s left wing at the battle of Bosworth. He was made a Knight of the Garter by Henry VII., and was slain at the siege of Boulogne in 1492.—Stow’s Annals, fo. 469 and 488; Ormerod’s Cheshire, vol. i. pp. 525 and 527.