The daily gazette., 1880-05-21
B0ssCOrfh Field.

Alter a few flights of arrows the con.
test became hand to hand, as was GUS
tomary 10 those days, and ragged for an
hour without any great advantage to
partly, when it ID recorded that Oxford
closed up his ranks, and gave Richards
army a chance of outflanking him; and
at that moment Stanley, who outfanked
both, threw his men into Rlchmond's
forces. Richard, shouting out, "TreasonI
treason!" called on his attendants to
follow him where Henry was, and they
almost C 1t their way to within short
distance of him, but not till the King
fell, literally covered with wounds. His
white horse was killed. Catesby had
met him calling out:
"a horsel my kingdom for horse!''
"Catesby-
Withdraw, my Lord, I'll help you to
horse. "King Richard
Slave, have set my life upon O ca /.
And will stand the hazard OF the die
think there be six Richmonds in the
field;
Five have I slain to day instead of him:
A horse! a horsel my kingdom for q
horse!" From the time when Richard
galloped out of his ranks to the time
WhOh hO lCll Odu ouiI hdNO DStD some
fifteen minutes, but how full of import
they we're to England! The house of the
Plantagenets was extinguished, the bar
ons' power was reduced TO name, and
the church then more wealthy and pow
eIful than either, might have heard its
own knell in the Leicester chimes that
rang in the coronation of the first of the
rudors.
The crown was found near hawthorn
bush after the battle, and placed on
Henry's head by Sir William Stanley;
hence the crown in q bush on his mau-
ment at Westminster. A slope down to
the sprlng-which rises, however, near
ly TO the level of the Iand-makes 1t a
convenient drinking place for cattle.
There is stone over the well with the
following inscription: "Aqua ex boc
puteo hausta sitim sedavit,. Ricardus ter
titus Rex Angli@ cum Henrico comtn de
Rishmondia acerrime atque infensissime
prelians, ct vita parlter, &C sceptro, ante
noctem cariturus. ii, Kal. Sept. A. d.
MCCCLXXXV."
The country people always used to
say that the well ran water tinged with
the blood, and would not drink from it.
But the truth is, as we often see in
marshy lands, there is some tinge of a
red-oehrus character In the soil which
colors the wate. Yet this belief appears
stated as a matter of fact in history of
England that is very extensively used in
schools. Mr.. Hutton says that old
have pointed out how the
Tudors wished to case ignomy on Rich
ards character and physical shortcom-
ings, and dubbed the bill where he ad-
dressed his troops Dickens Nook, and
the we'll King Dicks Well. These
names they bear to the present day.
Indeed, when the writer asked rus
tic the way to Richards Well, he cor
rected him politely enough by saying
King Dicks. Some Of tie spoils that have
been dug up, such as the steel parts of
cross-how and spurs, that are preserved
in the church at Bosworth and in the
Liverpool Museum, are engraved in
work; and 80 beautiful is the
design that they would obtain prizes in
any exhibition in Europe. Burton
arrow-heads of great size and
weight but those l have seen are spear
heads. Spearmen seem to have played
a consideraf lie part in the strife. "Look
that my slaves be sound and not too
heavy," are Richards words on the
night before the battle, as he went to
his broken sleep.