201 
De Commines says:—“And the Prince of Wales, several 
“other great lords, and a great number of common soldiers 
“were killed on the spot.” Bohn’s Ed., I, 202. 
Bernard Andreas, the biographer of Henry VII, distinctly 
states that the young Prince fell in the fight. 
All that can be said is that the serious charge against 
Edward and his brothers was first made in a Chronicle some 
thirty years after the event, when there were probably no eye- 
witnesses left to disprove it; and that all the contemporary 
Chroniclers write as though they knew that Edward was slain 
on the field of battle, like the Earl of Devonshire and Lord 
John Beaufort. 
He is said to have been buried near the centre of the choir 
of Tewkesbury Abbey, under the tower, without a monument 
or an inscription, 
