TOLLS ON THE USE OF ROADS. MESSAGES. 



to summon that Parliament, which, after the victory of North- 

 ampton, w.as to hear and acknowledge the title of Richard to 

 the throne. Another incident of the times, and contained in 

 the notes of the same year, is the payment of is. $>d. made to 

 Joseph Mann, who had been despoiled at Northampton \ 



1 Under the year 1470 (Vol. Ill, p. 679, ii) is an entry from the Norwich register of 

 1470-1, in which an account is given of the assistance sent by the Corporation to the 

 King at the battle of Tewkesbury. In this passage the following remarkable words 

 occur : ' Ubi adjudicatus fuit Edvardus filius Henrici nuper regis Angliae, et mater ejus 

 capta.' The use of this participle seems to me to imply that there was a military trial 

 of the unfortunate youth, and that he was executed after the battle was over. One 

 of the forty archers whom Norwich equipped and paid was probably the authority 

 for the clerk's entry. See Lingard's note in his history of the event. 



