io8 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



was inflantancoufly executed at Hexham, after the battle ; being 

 a changling and a deferter from Ed-ward. His tomb is in Hexham* 

 church, as before-mentioned. A field near the fcene of action, 

 called Dux-fold, is fuppofed to take its name from him. Sir Wil- 

 I'uim Tallboys, Sir Humphry Neii'il, and Sir Ralph Grey, knight of the 

 mofc noble order of the garter, and captain of the caftles of Rox- 

 borough and Bambrough, were all three beheaded ; Sir Ralph being 

 flrft degraded of his high honour, by cutting off his gilt fpurs, 



mentioned, lived as banifticd men in the Duke of Burgundy's court, who received them as 

 his kinfmen ofthehoufe of Lancaflir, before his marriage with King Edward's fifter. I have 

 feen them in fo great mifery before they came to the Duke's knowledge, thatthofe that beg 

 fiom door to door were not in poorer ftate than they: for I once faw the Duke of Exeter 

 (" Henry Holland") run on foot and bare legged after the Duke of Burgundy's train, beg- 

 ging his bread for God's fake, but he uttered not his name. He was the neareft of the 

 houfc of Lancajlcr, and had married King Edward's fifter, but when he was known, the 

 Duke gave him a fmall penfion to maintain his eftate. They of the houfe of Somerfet, and- 

 divers others, were there in like manner, who died all afterwards in the wars. - 



There were three things that contributed to K. Edward I\ r th's fuccefs: Firft the gentle- 

 men that were in the fancluaries, and the new born prince : The fecond, the great debts 

 the king owed in the metropolis ; in refpedt whereof the merchants, to whom he was in- 

 debted, thought it their beft way to take part with him : The third, a great many women 

 of honour, and rich merchants wives, with whom in times paft he had been familiar, per? 

 fuaded their hufbands and friends to incline to him. 



After he was quiet in his realm, he received yearly out of France fifty thoufand crowns^ 

 paid him in the Tower of Landin, and was grown fo rich, that richer he could not be. 



He was the beautifulleft prince in the world. He gave himfelf wholly to pleafures, as to 

 dames, feafting, banquetting, and hunting, after he had vanquifhed his enemies. He feared 

 no man, but fed marvelloufly fat, by means whereof in the flower of his age difeafes grew 

 upon him, fo that he died in a manner fuddenly of an apoplexy. 



Philip de Cumine's (fecretary to Lewis XI, and to Charles Vllljjinvaluable Memoirs, 

 tranflated by Danet, fmall fol. p. 63: AnAUveible's tranflation, with Sleidans notes, 

 Vol. I. p. 2iO, 



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