The Battle of Tewkegbury, A.D., 1471. By the Rev. W. 
Bazevry, M.A. Read July 28. 
The principal authorities for the eventful period of English 
history which terminated with the deaths of King Henry VI, 
his son Edward, and the nobles who supported the Lancastrian 
dynasty, are— 
I.—The 2nd Continuation of the History of Croyland ; 
II.—Fabyan’s “ Chronicle ;” 
II.—Warkworth’s “ Chronicle,” quoted largely by Leland 
in his “ Collectanea ;” 
IV.—The English History of Polydore Vergil; 
V.—The Memoirs of Philip de Commines ; 
and VI.—The fullest and most valuable of all, the ‘Chronicle’ 
called Fleetwood’s, which has been used largely 
by Holinshed, with material alterations.* 
Of these Warkworth’s and Fleetwood’s “ Chronicles ”’ were 
written within a very few years of the battle of Tewkesbury, 
certainly during the reign of Edward IV; Fabyan was an 
alderman of London in the reign of Henry VII; Polydore 
Vergil published his history in 1534, late in the reign of Henry 
VIII; de Commines wrote in France during the reign of Henry 
VII, and had to depend for his information on the testimony 
of those who fled from England. 
We should naturally expect that the earlier Chronicles 
would have a Yorkist tendency, while those written in the 
reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII would be in favour of the 
© There is also an able paper on the Battle of Tewkesbury in R. Broke’s 
“ Visits to Fields of Battle in England, of the 15th century,” 1857, from 
which I have obtained much information and help. 
