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SCENE OF THE DEATH OF RICHAHD III. 



Many of the readers of " N. & Q." are no doubt 

 aware that the precise spot on which Richard III. 

 met with his death, during the famous battle of 

 Bosworth Fields, is pointed out by the following 

 passage contained in a proclamation sent by 

 Henry VII. almost immediately after his victory 

 to the municipality of York, and which will be 

 found in Drake's Eboracum * : — 



" Moreover the King ascertaineth vou that Richard 

 Duke of Gloucester, lately called King Richard, was slain 

 at a place called Sandeford, in the County of Leicester, 

 and brought dead off the field," &c. 



Up to the present time no attempt appears to 

 have been made, either by Hutton or by any other 

 writer, to identify this interesting locality. I 

 therefore take the liberty of forwarding a few 

 Notes upon the subject, taken in the course of a 

 series of inquiries recently instituted for the pur- 

 pose of ascertaining, as far as possible, the exact 

 positions and movement of the contending armies 

 on the memorable 22nd of August, 1485. 



Th% field of battle, as it is well known, lies 

 about three miles south of the town of Market 

 Bosworth, and nearly equidistant from the villages 

 of Shenton, Sutton Chainell, and Dadlington. 

 And it is clear from direct historical testimony, 

 which is in this instance fully corroborated by 

 local traditions, that the principal encounter be- 

 tween the forces of Richard and Richmond took 

 place on the ascent and summit of an elevated 

 ridge known by the name of Ambien Hill, on the 

 southern slope of which rises the well or spring 

 still called " Richard's Well," from which the king 

 is traditionally reported to have drank during the 

 engagement. The plain of Redmoor, also partly 

 comprehended in the movements of the two armies, 

 and across which there cannot be a doubt that the 

 flight of the vanquished royalists was afterwards 

 directed towards Dadlington, Stoke Golding, and 

 Crown Hill, bounds the strong position of Ambien 

 Hill on the south and west. It is therefore 

 evident that the place where the king fell must be 

 looked for in the immediate vicinity of these two 

 well-ascertained sites of conflict. That it may yet 

 be identified will, I think, appear from the follow- 

 ing considerations. 



We may readily assume that the place called 

 Sandeford, or Sandford, in the proclamation of 

 Henry VII., is not a hamlet or village, since none 

 so called is known to have existed in the county 

 of Leicester from the compilation of Doomsday 

 Book until the present day. We must therefore 

 come to the conclusion that the name under con- 

 sideration should be taken, according to its natural 

 sense, to imply an ancient road or passage over 

 some fordable stream or watercourse. And the 



* See also Nichols's History of Leicestershire, Sparken- 

 hoe IJundred, p. 551, 



