[1] But when he was in the plaine field betweene his castell and the towne of Wakefield,The battell at Wakefield. he was inuiro|ned on euerie side, like fish in a net, so that though he fought manfullie,The duke of Yorke slaine. yet was he within halfe an houre slaine and dead, and his whole armie discomfited: with him died of his trustie fréends, his two bastard vncles, sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers, sir Dauie Hall, sir Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Neuill, Willi|am and Thomas Aparre, both brethren;Onelie seauen hundred sou|therne men saith Whe [...]|hamsted. and two thou|sand and eight hundred others, whereof manie were yoong gentlemen, and heires of great parentage in the south parts, whose kin reuenged their deaths with|in foure moneths next, as after shall appeare.