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such food as they carried with them, and then continued his 
march to within three miles of the Lancastrian position. 
I have no means of fixing on the site of Edward’s bivouac, 
though I have heard several positions suggested. 
On the morrow very early Edward prepared for battle, and 
took up a position about half a mile south of the Lancastrian 
army, on a common, now enclosed, called the Red Piece, from 
whence the ground sloped downward, and formed a depression 
between the two armies. 
The Lancastrian army was drawn up in three bodies behind 
the natura) and artificia) defences of their position. The Duke 
of Somerset and tis brother, Lord John Beaufort, commanded 
the first line, or the van; Prince Edward, son of Henry VI, 
the Prior of St. John,and Lord Wenlock the second, or the 
centre; and the Earl of Devonshire the third. 
On the other side Edward had given his brother, Richard 
Duke of Gloucester, the command of the van; the King in 
person, together with his brother, the Duke of Clarence, com- 
manded the centre; and the rear was commanded by the 
Marquis of Dorset and Lord Hastings. 
The position which the Lancastrians occupied seems to 
have been an eminence now called Gupshill, with the stream 
called Swillgate on their left, and a large wood, known then, as 
now, by the name of The Park, with a little stream intervening, 
on their right. 
The road which now passes to the east of Gupshill has 
been diverted within living memory. It formerly passed to the 
west of the present farm buildings, and joined the present road 
60 or 70 yards on the Tewkesbury side of the first mile post, 
thus avoiding the hill. 
The new road is cut through a field to which tradition has 
given the name of Margaret’sCamp. A small circular enclosure, 
near the present road, about 30 yards across, with a shallow 
ditch, called The Island, could not have been part of the 
entrenchments. It was perhaps a place of burial of the slain, 
or a memorial of the battle. 
