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Persoonlijke gegevens Earl Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby 1485 etc 

• Hij is geboren rond 1435 in Wirral Forest, Cheshire, England.Bronnen 6, 10

  Staffordshire

• Beroepen:
• 1st Earl of Warwick.Bron 10
• Lord Chancellor of England.
• Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man.
• op 20 februari 1459 Lord Stanley.
• op 10 juli 1460 Sir Knight, knighted by Henry VI.
• in het jaar 1483 Knight of the Garter.
• tussen 1483 en 1485 Lord High Constable.Bron 11
• op 27 oktober 1485 1st Earl of Derby.Bronnen 7, 9, 12
• Lord High Constable of England.Bron 6
• (Alt. Burial) : Burscough Priory, Lancashire, England.Bronnen 8, 13, 14
• (Alt. Birth) rond 1428: Hornby, Lancashire, England.Bron 15
• (Alt. Birth) in het jaar 1435.Bronnen 11, 16
• (Alt. Birth) rond 1435.Bron 17
• (Alt. Birth) rond 1435: Hornby, Lancashire, England.Bron 18
• (Alt. Birth) rond 1435: Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.Bronnen 8, 9, 13, 14, 19, 20
• (Acceded) op 27 oktober 1485.Bron 15
• (Alt. Death) op 28 juli 1504: Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.Bronnen 13, 14, 15
• (Alt. Death) op 29 juli 1504.Bron 17
• (Alt. Death) op 29 juli 1504: Burscough Priory, Lancashire, England.Bron 16
• (Alt. Death) op 29 juli 1504: Holt Castle, Holt, Wrexham, Wales.Bron 18
• (Alt. Death) op 29 juli 1504: Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.Bronnen 11, 19, 21
• Hij is overleden op 29 juli 1504 in Lathom.Bronnen 6, 8, 9, 20

  near Cheshire, England

• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1504 in Burscough Priory, Lancastershire, England, Great Britain.Bron 16
• Boedelverdeling op 9 november 1504.Bron 9
• Testament op 28 juli 1504.Bron 9
• Een kind van Thomas Stanley en Joan Goushill
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 6 januari 2023.

Gezin van Earl Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby 1485 etc

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Eleanor Neville.

Zij zijn getrouwd na 10 mei 1457 te Knowsley, Huyton, Lancashire, England.Bronnen 6, 22

6 sons and 4 daughters

Kind(eren):

1. George Stanley  ± 1460-1503 
2. Edward Stanley  1460-1523 
3. John Stanley  ????-1508 
4. James Stanley  ± 1463-1525
5. Rowland Stanley  

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Margaret de Beaufort.

Zij zijn getrouwd juni 1472.

Notities over Earl Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby 1485 etc

Knight of the Garter, Lord Stanley, Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man, Constable of England, 1st Earl of Derby 1485

Present at the Battle of Bosworth. After the battle Lord Thomas Stanley placed the Crown on England on the head his step-son Henry Tudor. He was later created 1st Earl of Derby.

From the Ballard of Bosworth:
The ballad begins with an appreciation of the wondrous transformation achieved through the accession of Henry VII, and an appeal to Christ to keep England in 'peace and tranquillity'. The exile of Henry Tudor, his return to claim his heritage, his landing at Milford Haven, his appeal to the Stanleys are all recounted. The scene shifts to the court of Richard III, where the king is being counselled to destroy the overmighty Stanleys. Summoned to court, Lord Stanley falls ill at Manchester, and sends in his place Lord Strange, who on arrival is thrown in prison. Hearing of the king's treachery and Henry Tudor's landing, Lord Stanley and Sir William Stanley (his brother) repudiate their allegiance: the latter promises to make his former lord 'such a breakfast upon a day a s never made knight any king in Christendom.' The king replies that whoever opposes him, be it the Great Turk, Prester John or the Sultan of Syria, he will remain king, and threatens to leave no knight or squire alive between Lancaster and Shrewsbury, and to turn into a park the land between Holyhead and St. David's.
Then the king sends messengers to every nobleman and knight in the realm, and assembles a company of unprecedented size:

Thither came the duke of Norfolk upon a day, and the earl of Surrey that was his heir; The earl of Kent was not away, The earl of Shrewsbury brown as bear.
The ballad continues in similar fashion to list the nobles who swore to support the king; the earls of Lincoln, Northumberland and Westmorland, Lords Zouche, Maltravers, Welles, Grey of Codnor, 'Bowes' [Grey of Powys?]. Audley, Berkeley [earl of Nottingha m?], Ferrers of Chartley, Lovell#, Fitzhugh, Scrope of Masham, Scrope of Bolton, Dacre, Ogle#, Lumley, and Greystoke. There follows a list of other knights who were in attendance, including the following clearly identifiable persons: Ralph Harbott le, Henry Horsey#, Henry Percy, John Grey, Thomas Montgomery, Robert Brackenbury, Richard Charlton, Thomas Markenfield#, Christopher Ward#, Robert Plumpton#, William Gascoigne#, Marmaduke Constable, Martin of the Sea#, John Melton, Gervase Clifton, Henry Pierpoint, John Babington, Humphrey Stafford, Robert Rither, Brian Stapleton, Richard Radcliffe, John Norton#, Thomas Mauleverer, Christopher Moresby, Thomas Broughton, Richard Tempest, Ralph Ashton, Robert Middleton, John Nevi lle, Roger Heron, James Harrington, Robert Harrington and Thomas Pilkington. A number of hypothetical reconstructions can be made from the two garbled renderings of the same name: Henry Bodrugan alias Bodringham ['Bowdrye', 'Landringham'#], Robert Rither ['Ryder', 'Rydyssh'#], Robert Ughtred ['Utridge', 'Owtrege'#], Alexander Baynham ['Fawne', 'Haymor'#], John Huddleston ['Hurlstean', 'Adlyngton'#]. Against the armed might of all England two shires alone (Lancaster and Cheshire).
Against the armed might of all England two shires alone (Lancaster and Cheshire) stand for Henry Tudor. On Monday Lord Stanley leads the Lancashire men from Lathom to Newcastle. Sir William Stanley with troops from Cheshire and North Wales moves first fro m Holt to Nantwich, then on Tuesday to Stone, whence he rides across to meet Henry Tudor at Stafford. The narrative leaps several days to describe the triumphal entry of the pretender and the younger Stanley into Lichfield on the Saturday morning, but the latter abruptly leaves in the direction of Tamworth, where it is reported that Lord Stanley is about to be attacked by the king. The Stanleys are in position near a place called 'Hattersey'; Lord Stanley has the vanguard, and Sir William's company comes in as the rearguard. They remain in defensive formation through Sunday, expecting the royal advance, but Henry Tudor arrives first and finally meets Lord Stanley. Early the next morning the battle begins. Henry Tudor desires the vanguard, and Lord Stanley seeing the small size of his company lends him four of his chief knights, Robert Turnstall, John Savage, Hugh Pershal and Humphrey Stanley (cousin of Lord Thomas Stanley):

The Lord Stanley both stern and stout, Two 'battles' that day had he Of hardy men, withouten doubt Better were not in Christenty.
Sir William, wise and worthy, Was hindmost at the outsetting; Men said that day that did him see, He came betime unto our King.
Then Lord Stanley withdraws to a hill top whence he sees the enemy troops massing. In a highly condensed and confused verse the two sides angle themselves for combat:
The duke of Norfolk advanced his banner bright, So did the young earl of Shrewsbury, To the sun and wind right speedily dight, So did Oxford, that earl, in company.
The king's ordnance is described: seven score serpentines chained together in a row, a similar number of bombards that blew 'like blasts of thunder', and ten thousand pikes and harquebusiers. Meanwhile, Richard III seeing Lord Stanley's banner on the hill orders the execution of Lord Strange. The young lord prepares for death and sends a message to his lady to leave the country with their child. With the vanguards engaged, the king is persuade d to delay the execution until after the battle. The fighting proceeds. Henry Tudor, Oxford, Savage, Talbot and Pershal all fight stoutly, but the king has superior forces:

King Richard did in his army ['in a marsh'#] stand, He was numbered to forty ['twenty'#] thousand and three Of hardy men of heart and hand, That under his banner there did be.
Sir William Stanley wise and worthy Remembered the brreakfast he promised to him; Down at a back [or 'bank'] then cometh he, And shortly set upon the King.
Then they 'countered together sad and sore; Archers they let sharp arrows fly, They shot guns both fell and far,

Bows of yews bended did be,
Springals sped them speedily, Harquebusiers' pellets throughly did thring; So many banners began to sway That was on Richard's party, their king.
Then our archers let their shooting be, With joined weapons were grounded full right, Brands rang on basinets high, Battle-axes fast on helms did light.
There died many a doughty knight, There under foot can they thring; Thus they fought with main and might That was Henry's part, our King.
Then to King Richard there came a knight, And said, 'I hold it time for to flee; For yonder Stanleys' dints they be so wight, Against them no man may dree.
'Here is thy horse at thy hand ready; Another day thou may worship win, And for to reign with royalty, To wear the crown, and be our King.'
He said, 'Give me my battle-axe in my hand, Set the crown of England on my head so high! For by Him that shope both sea and land, King of England this day will I die!
One foot will I never flee Whist the breath is my breast within!' As he said it, so did it be; If he lost his life, if he were King.
About his standard can they light, The crown of gold they hewed him fro, With doleful dints his death they dight, The duke of Norfolk that day they slew.

The ballad then records the deaths of Lord Ferrers, the 'noble' Sir Richard Radcliffe, a close counsellor of the king, the 'wight' Sir William Conyers, the 'full doughty' Sir Robert Brackenbury, the 'good' Sir Richard Charlton, all on Richard's side. It c ommends in particular the valour of the respective standard-bearers: William Brandon, the only notable casualty on Henry Tudor's side, and Sir Percival Thirwall who did not let fall the royal standard even when his legs were hewn from under him.
Then they moved to a mountain on height, With a loud voice they cried 'King Henry!'; The crown of gold that was bright, To the Lord Stanley delivered it be. Anon to King Henry delivered it he, The crown that was so delivered to him. And said, 'Methink ye are best worthy To wear the crown and be our King.'

The ballad continues with the victors riding to Leicester 'that night' and laying the late king's naked corpse in the Newarke for all to see. After commenting on the wondrousness of Fortune, it concludes with a prayer that the house of Stanley remain safe , illustrious and influential at the court of James 1.

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[RCKarnes.ged]

He was a shrewd man, who managed to remain in favour with successive kings throughout the Wars of the Roses, right up until his death in 1504.  His marriage to Eleanor, sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, did him no harm, even after Warwick was toppled from power, and he proceeded to take as his second wife, Margaret Beaufort, whose son, Henry Tudor, was the leading Lancastrian claimant to the throne. Richard III of England unwisely continued to trust Thomas Stanley and his brother, William, even after he had briefly imprisoned Thomas in 1483 on suspicion of conspiracy.  At the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Stanleys betrayed him, coming in on the side of the Lancastrians at a crucial moment.  It is Thomas who is alleged to have retrieved Richard's lost crown from the battlefield and placed it on the head of his own stepson.  In gratitude, he was created Earl of Derby on October 27, 1485, and never looked back.  His brother, William, did not fare so well.  In 1495, William made the mistake of supporting the pretender Perkin Warbeck, and was executed for treason.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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[Loren Family.ged]

The Complete Peerage vol.IV,pp.205-207.

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[John Luddy Burke.ged]

The Complete Peerage vol.IV,pp.205-207

1st Earl of Derby also called (1459-85) 2ND Baron STANLEY (b. c. 1435--d.

July 29, 1504, Lathom, Lancashire, England.), a prominent figure in the later stage of England's Wars of the Roses.

Great-grandson of Sir John Stanley (d. c. 1414), who created the fortune of the Stanley family, Thomas Stanley began his career as a squire to King Henry VI in 1454.  At the Battle of Blore Heath in August 1459, Stanley, though close at hand with a large force, did not join the royal army, while his brother William fought openly for York.  In 1461 Stanley was made chief justice of Cheshire by Edward IV, but 10 years later he sided with his brother-in-law Warwick in the Lancastrian restoration.  Nevertheless, after Warwick's fall, Edward IV made Stanley steward of his household.  About 1482 he married, as his second wife, Margaret Beaufort, mother of the exiled Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII).

Stanley was one of the executors of Edward IV and was at first loyal to the young king Edward V.  However, he acquiesced in Richard III's accession and retained his office as steward, avoiding entanglement in the rebellion (1483) on behalf of Henry Tudor in which his wife was deeply involved.  He was made constable of England and was granted possession of his wife's estates with a charge to keep her safe in some secret place at home.  Richard III could not well afford to quarrel with so powerful a noble, but he became suspicious when, early in 1485, Stanley asked leave to retire to his estates in Lancashire, and in the summer Richard asked Stanley to send his son Lord Strange to court as a hostage.  After Henry Tudor had landed, Stanley made excuses for not joining the King.  On the morning of Bosworth (August 22), when Richard summoned Stanley to join him, he received an evasive reply and thereupon ordered Lord Strange to be executed, although his order was neglected and Strange escaped.  After the Battle of Bosworth Field, Stanley, who had taken no part in the fighting, placed the crown on Henry's head.  Henry VII confirmed him in all his offices and created him earl of Derby.  His son Thomas succeeded him as 2nd earl of Derby.

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[Courtney L. Caldwell.ged]

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG (1435 - July 29, 1504), an English nobleman, inherited his father's titles, including that of king of the Isle of Man, in 1459. Stanley was a shrewd man, who managed to remain in favour with successive kings throughout the Wars of the Roses, right up until his death in 1504.  His marriage to Eleanor, sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, did him no harm, even after Warwick was toppled from power, and he proceeded to take as his second wife Margaret Beaufort, whose son, Henry Tudor, was the leading Lancastrian claimant to the throne.

Richard III of England unwisely continued to trust Thomas Stanley and his brother, William, even after he had briefly imprisoned Thomas in 1483 on suspicion of conspiracy.  At the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Stanleys betrayed him, coming in on the side of the Lancastrians at a crucial moment.  It is Thomas who is alleged to have retrieved Richard's lost crown from the battlefield and placed it on the head of his own stepson.  In gratitude, he was created Earl of Derby on October 27, 1485, and never looked back.  His brother, William, did not fare so well. In 1495, William made the mistake of supporting the pretender Perkin Warbeck, and was executed for treason.

Descendents of Thomas Stanley and Eleanor (or Alainor) Neville included George Stanley, Edward Stanley, and James Stanley, all of whom were also descended from the same Beauforts and John of Gaunt as the step-son who became Henry Tudor.

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[Jim Weber.ged]

Thomas Stanley, 2nd Lord (Baron) Stanley and 1st Earl of Derby, so created 27 Oct 1485, KG (1483), PC (1471); born c 1435; Esquire of the Body to Henry VI and Richard III 1471-85, Constable of England 1483 for life, at Battle of Bosworth 22 Aug 1485 betrayed Richard III at a decisive moment and allegedly set the crown on Henry VII's head afterwards, Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster (Northern parts) 1485-1504; married 1st after 10 May 1457 Eleanor Nevill(e), 4th daughter of 5th Earl of Salisbury of the 1337 creation; married 2nd Margaret Beaufort (died 29 Jun 1509), daughter and heir of 1st Duke of Somerset of the 1442/3 creation and widow of (a) 1st Earl of Richmond of the 1452 creation (by whom she was mother of Henry VII) and (b) Sir Henry Stafford, and died 29 July 1504, having had by his 1st wife [George].
[Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF STANLEY (II)

EARLDOM OF DERBY (X, 1) 1485

Thomas (Stanley), Lord Stanley, 1st son and heir of Thomas, Lord Stanley (so created by writ dated 1456), by Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham, Notts, was b. about 1435; succeeded his father 20 Feb 1458/9, being then aged 24, and was summoned to Parliament from 30 July 1460 to 9 Dec 1483.  He was also Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man and possessor of the large estates at Lathom and Knowsley in the hundred of West Derby, co. Lancaster, inherited from the family of Lathom.  Knighted 10 July 1460 by Henry VI, to whom in 1454, he had been Esquire of the Body; Chief Justice of Chester; was PC and Steward of the Household to Edward IV and Richard III 1471-85; was present at the Coronation of Richard III, KG 1483; Constable of England for life 16 Dec 1483, with the fee of 100 pounds a year, granted by Richard III, whose cause he skilfully betrayed at the battle of Bosworth, 22 Aug 1485, where he is said to have set the King's crown on the head of the victorious Henry.  Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster (Northern parts) 1485 till his death.  He was created by charter 27 Oct 1485, Earl of Derby, and made one of the Commissioners for the office of Lord High Steward at the Coronation of the King and his Consort.  Reappointed Constable of England 5 Mar 1485/6.  He was godfather (1486) to Prince Arthur, the King's eldest son. ; On 24 June 1495, he received a visit lasting nearly a month, from the King and Queen, at Knowsley and at Lathom.

He m. 1stly, apparently after 10 May 1457, Eleanor, sister of Richard, Earl of Warwick (the celebrated King Maker), 4th daughter of Richard (Neville), Earl of Salisbury, by Alice, daughter and heir of Thomas (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury.  She was buried at St. James's, Garlickhithe, London.  He m. 2ndly, in 1482 (before Nov), Margaret, widow of Sir Henry Stafford and before that of Edmund (Tudor), Earl of Richmond, daughter and heir of John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, by Margaret, daughter of John (Beauchamp), Lord Beauchamp (of Bleetsoe). He d. 29 July 1504, at Lathom, aged about 69, and was buried with his ancestors at Burscough Priory, co. Lancaster.  Will dated 28 July, probated 9 Nov 1504.  His widow, who was b. 31 May 1443, at Bletsoe, was the well-known founder of Christ's and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge.  She d. 29 June 1509 (three months after the death of her son, Henry VII), in her 67th year, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. ; Will, as "Countess of Richmond and Derby", probated 17 Oct 1512.
[Complete Peerage, IV:205-207]

Note: The Stanley Earls of Derby descend right through Victorian England, to the present day, and they never had any significant land in Derby.  Knowsley was always their main residence.

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[Mark W Ballard.FTW]

Present at the Battle of Bosworth.  After the battle Lord Thomas Stanley placed the Crown on England on the head his step-son Henry Tudor.  He was later created 1st Earl of Derby.

From the Ballard of Bosworth:
The ballad begins with an appreciation of the wondrous transformation achieved through the accession of Henry VII, and an appeal to Christ to keep England in 'peace and tranquillity'.  The exile of Henry Tudor, his return to claim his heritage, his landing at Milford Haven, his appeal to the Stanleys are all recounted.  The scene shifts to the court of Richard III, where the king is being counselled to destroy the overmighty Stanleys.  Summoned to court, Lord Stanley falls ill at Manchester, and sends in his place Lord Strange, who on arrival is thrown in prison.  Hearing of the king's treachery and Henry Tudor's landing, Lord Stanley and Sir William Stanley (his brother) repudiate their allegiance: the latter promises to make his former lord 'such a breakfast upon a day as never made knight any king in Christendom.' The king replies that whoever opposes him, be it the Great Turk, Prester John or the Sultan of Syria, he will remain king, and threatens to leave no knight or squire alive between Lancaster and Shrewsbury, and to turn into a park the land between Holyhead and St. David's.
Then the king sends messengers to every nobleman and knight in the realm, and assembles a company of unprecedented size:

Thither came the duke of Norfolk upon a day, and the earl of Surrey that was his heir; The earl of Kent was not away, The earl of Shrewsbury brown as bear.
The ballad continues in similar fashion to list the nobles who swore to support the king; the earls of Lincoln, Northumberland and Westmorland, Lords Zouche, Maltravers, Welles, Grey of Codnor, 'Bowes' [Grey of Powys?].  Audley, Berkeley [earl of Nottingham?], Ferrers of Chartley, Lovell#, Fitzhugh, Scrope of Masham, Scrope of Bolton, Dacre, Ogle#, Lumley, and Greystoke.  There follows a list of other knights who were in attendance, including the following clearly identifiable persons: Ralph Harbott le, Henry Horsey#, Henry Percy, John Grey, Thomas Montgomery, Robert Brackenbury, Richard Charlton, Thomas Markenfield#, Christopher Ward#, Robert Plumpton#, William Gascoigne#, Marmaduke Constable, Martin of the Sea#, John Melton, Gervase Clifton, Henry Pierpoint, John Babington, Humphrey Stafford, Robert Rither, Brian Stapleton, Richard Radcliffe, John Norton#, Thomas Mauleverer, Christopher Moresby, Thomas Broughton, Richard Tempest, Ralph Ashton, Robert Middleton, John Neville, Roger Heron, James Harrington, Robert Harrington and Thomas Pilkington. A number of hypothetical reconstructions can be made from the two garbled renderings of the same name: Henry Bodrugan alias Bodringham ['Bowdrye', 'Landringham'#], Robert Rither ['Ryder', 'Rydyssh'#], Robert Ughtred ['Utridge', 'Owtrege'#], Alexander Baynham ['Fawne', 'Haymor'#], John Huddleston ['Hurlstean', 'Adlyngton'#]. ; Against the armed might of all England two shires alone (Lancaster and Cheshire).
Against the armed might of all England two shires alone (Lancaster and Cheshire) stand for Henry Tudor.  On Monday Lord Stanley leads the Lancashire men from Lathom to Newcastle.  Sir William Stanley with troops from Cheshire and North Wales moves first from Holt to Nantwich, then on Tuesday to Stone, whence he rides across to meet Henry Tudor at Stafford.  The narrative leaps several days to describe the triumphal entry of the pretender and the younger Stanley into Lichfield on the Saturday morning, but the latter abruptly leaves in the direction of Tamworth, where it is reported that Lord Stanley is about to be attacked by the king.  The Stanleys are in position near a place called 'Hattersey'; Lord Stanley has the vanguard, and Sir William's company comes in as the rearguard.  They remain in defensive formation through Sunday, expecting the royal advance, but Henry Tudor arrives first and finally meets Lord Stanley.  Early the next morning the battle begins.  Henry Tudor desires the vanguard, and Lord Stanley seeing the small size of his company lends him four of his chief knights, Robert Turnstall, John Savage, Hugh Pershal and Humphrey Stanley (cousin of Lord Thomas Stanley):

The Lord Stanley both stern and stout, Two 'battles' that day had he Of hardy men, withouten doubt Better were not in Christenty.
Sir William, wise and worthy, Was hindmost at the outsetting; Men said that day that did him see, He came betime unto our King.
Then Lord Stanley withdraws to a hill top whence he sees the enemy troops massing.  In a highly condensed and confused verse the two sides angle themselves for combat:
The duke of Norfolk advanced his banner bright, So did the young earl of Shrewsbury, To the sun and wind right speedily dight, So did Oxford, that earl, in company.
The king's ordnance is described: seven score serpentines chained together in a row, a similar number of bombards that blew 'like blasts of thunder', and ten thousand pikes and harquebusiers.  Meanwhile, Richard III seeing Lord Stanley's banner on the hill orders the execution of Lord Strange.  The young lord prepares for death and sends a message to his lady to leave the country with their child. With the vanguards engaged, the king is persuaded to delay the execution until after the battle.  The fighting proceeds.  Henry Tudor, Oxford, Savage, Talbot and Pershal all fight stoutly, but the king has superior forces:

King Richard did in his army ['in a marsh'#] stand, He was numbered to forty ['twenty'#] thousand and three of hardy men of heart and hand, That under his banner there did be.
Sir William Stanley wise and worthy Remembered the breakfast he promised to him; Down at a back [or 'bank'] then cometh he, And shortly set upon the King.
Then they 'countered together sad and sore; Archers they let sharp arrows fly, They shot guns both fell and far,

Bows of yews bended did be,
Springals sped them speedily, Harquebusiers' pellets throughly did thring; So many banners began to sway That was on Richard's party, their king.
Then our archers let their shooting be, With joined weapons were grounded full right, Brands rang on basinets high, Battle-axes fast on helms did light.
There died many a doughty knight, There under foot can they thring; Thus they fought with main and might That was Henry's part, our King.
Then to King Richard there came a knight, And said, 'I hold it time for to flee; For yonder Stanleys' dints they be so wight, Against them no man may dree.
'Here is thy horse at thy hand ready; Another day thou may worship win, And for to reign with royalty, To wear the crown, and be our King.'
He said, 'Give me my battle-axe in my hand, Set the crown of England on my head so high!  For by Him that shope both sea and land, King of England this day will I die!
One foot will I never flee Whist the breath is my breast within!'  As he said it, so did it be; If he lost his life, if he were King.
About his standard can they light, The crown of gold they hewed him fro, With doleful dints his death they dight, The duke of Norfolk that day they slew.

The ballad then records the deaths of Lord Ferrers, the 'noble' Sir Richard Radcliffe, a close counsellor of the king, the 'wight' Sir William Conyers, the 'full doughty' Sir Robert Brackenbury, the 'good' Sir Richard Charlton, all on Richard's side.  It commends in particular the valour of the respective standard-bearers: William Brandon, the only notable casualty on Henry Tudor's side, and Sir Percival Thirwall who did not let fall the royal standard even when his legs were hewn from under him.
Then they moved to a mountain on height, With a loud voice they cried 'King Henry!'; The crown of gold that was bright, To the Lord Stanley delivered it be.  Anon to King Henry delivered it he, The crown that was so delivered to him.  And said, 'Methink ye are best worthy To wear the crown and be our King.'

The ballad continues with the victors riding to Leicester 'that night' and laying the late king's naked corpse in the Newarke for all to see.  After commenting on the wondrousness of Fortune, it concludes with a prayer that the house of Stanley remain safe , illustrious and influential at the court of James 1.

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