Note 191a — Chapter IX · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF STOKE. [177a]

A passage, calculated to mislead, exists in a work, called The Beauties of England and Wales. It contains an assertion, unsupported by any proof, “that the battle must have been fought in the plain, between Stoke and Thorpe, rather than Stoke and Elston.” The clear and unqualified statements of the old chroniclers and annalists, that it was fought at Stoke, the evidence of the relics dug up, and the tradition of the neighbourhood, make it however quite certain that it could not have been fought in the place suggested in that work.