The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-13
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After few flights of arrows, the con-
test became hand to hand, as was GUS
tomary in those days.; and ragged for an
hour without any great advantage to
either party, when it is recorded that
Oxford closed up his ranks, and gave
| Richards army a chanceodf outAsnking
him; and at that moment Stanley, who
outAanked both, threw his men into
Richmond's forces. Richard, shouting
out, "Treason! treasonp called on his
attendants to follow him where Henry
was, and they almost cut. their way to
within a 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 horse, horse! my Kingdom fer q
horsel ,efus}.tps!t
"Catesby.-
Withdraw, my Lord, I'll help you to
a horse. ,-.-s..,,....- ...o,-
"King Richard ,. " ~, ..,..,
Slave. have set my life upon a cast,
And will stand the hazard If the die.
think the e bes r crmOnds In the field;
Five have slain to-day instead ofhim: !.
A horse! horse! my kin dom for ahorse!"
From the time when Richard ,galloped
out Of his ranks to the time when he fell
can only have been some fifteen minutes,
but how full Of import they were To
England! The house Of the Plantasenets
was extinguished, the BaronsI power
was reduced to a name, and the church
then more wealthy and powerful than
either, might have heard Its own knell
in the Leicester chimes that rang in the
coronation of the first of the Tudcrs.
The crown was found near a hawthorn
bush after the battle, and placed on
Henry's head by Sir William Stanley;
hence the crown in bush on Ills monu-
ment Mt Westminster. A slope down to
the spring-which rises, however, nearly
to the level of the land-makes tia con-
venient drinking place for cattle. There
is a stone over the we'll with the follow
ing inscription: "Aqua ex hoe puteo
hausta sitim sedavit, Ricardus tertius
Rex Angfie cum Henrico comite de
Rishmondia acerrme atque infensiseime
prelans, ct vita pariter, &C sceptro, ante
noctem cariturus ii. Kal. Sept. A. d.
MCCCLXXXV." ITO.
The country people always used to
say that the well ran water tinged with
blood, and would not drink from it.
But the truth is, as we often see in
marshy linds, there is some tinge of a
red.ochrous character in the soil which
colUrs the W ter. Yet this belief ap-
pears stated as a matter Of fact ina his
tory of England that is very extensively
used in schools. Mr.. Hutton s;fys th t
old chroniclers have pointed out how the
Tudors wished to cast ignominy On Rich
ards character and physical shortcom-
ings, and dubbed the Hill where he adj
dressed his troops Di,,kon's Nook, and
the well King Dicks Well. Tuese mes
they bear to the present day. 2fatll
Indeed, when the writer asked rustic
the way to Richards Wei, ,ahe corrected
him politely enough by saying King
Dicks. Some Of the spoils that have
been dug up, such as the sleel prrtslof a
cross-bow and spurs, that are preserved
in the church at BOsw0rlh and in the
Liverpool Museum, are engraved inHut-
TOMS work; and 10 beautiful is the de-
sign that they. would obtain prizes IN
any exhibition in Europe. oBurtonmen-
tions arow-heads of great size and
weight, but those i have seen are spear
heads. Spearmen seem to have play
considerable part in the strife. Look
that my slaves be sound and not TOD
heavy" are Richards words on the
night before the battle, as he went to
his broken sleep.