Rev. E,. Jones on the Battle of Flodden Field. 389 



The morning after the battle the men under Lord Home 

 were seen standing on the western end of the field, where 

 they had the evening before been so hotly engaged, and 

 where they had been completely victorious. The centre of 

 the Scotch had never been broken, and it was quite uncertain 

 during the night which nation could claim the victory, but as 

 the day advanced the Scotch left the ground and all their 

 guns on the top of the hill. 



The death of the king, together with the loss of nearly all 

 her nobility, would be known during the night or early the 

 next morning throughout the remnant of the Scottish army. 

 Besides the king and his natural son the Archbishop of St. 

 Andrews, there were slain twelve earls, and fifteen lords and 

 chiefs of clans ; and to these we m.ust also add the Bishop of 

 Caithness and of the Isles, the Abbots of Inchaffray and Kil- 

 winning, and the Dean of Glasgow. 



When known in the English camp that the victory was 

 theirs, Surrey immediately ordered solemn thanksgiving to 

 be offered up to the Almighty, and afterwards he created 

 forty knights on the field, disbanded his army, and returned 

 to London, where all was joy and exultation. 



Scarcely any one of note belonging to the English nobility 

 fell on the field, which is a strong and undeniable proof that 

 they did not risk their lives in the battle as the king and his 

 nobles had done. The bow and the bill in the hands of the 

 English yeomen did the deadly work, and by them were 



" The flowers of the forest a' wede away." 



PLATE X. 



Map of Flodden Field and of Surrey's March. 



PLATE XL 



1. Arrangements of the Troops before the battle. 



2. A Vie'w of the Battle-ground of Flodden Field. 



