colour of each party, was the livery of their chief.

Whether Pafton joined the Duke at Bury is uncertain, but from the fhortness of the time, I fuppofe he did not; and befides, a year after, he was employed by Henry, to feize Lovell as a traitor, which fuppofes, Henry did not think him one.

Henry made no stay at Shrewsbury; he wifely judged that lingering would weaken the spirit of enterprize, and diminifh his army. Though poffeffed of no perfonal courage, he wished to ftrike, and not wait to be ftruck.

Leaving Shrewsbury, he encamped at night on a little hill by Newport, when Sir Gilbert Talbot, fheriff of Shropshire,

uncle,

uncle, and guardian to the Earl of Shrewfbury, a minor, joined him with 2000 men, the power of their house with that of his office.

He arrived at Stafford, where he and Sir William Stanley had a private interview, not fo much on his own account, as his brother's, who durft not appear because of his fon.

At Lichfield he paffed the night in his camp, without the walls; and next morning was joyfully received into the town, which the Lord Stanley, two days before, had evacuated as if flying before him.

The king hearing Henry was encamped at Lichfield, would have marched on Monday August 15, but that day being the

affumption

affumption of our lady, perhaps through fear of becoming unfortunate, by incurring her difpleasure, he deferred it till the 16th, when he marshalled his troops in Nottingham market-place, and marched them in exact order, to Leicefter, twenty-five miles diftant, where he probably arrived the fame day, chufing rather to rest his men after a fatiguing march, than fight them after an eafy one; befides, time was neceffary to take measures. They chiefly confifted of foot, which he feparated into two divifions; the first marched five in a rank, then followed the baggage, then himself, gorgeously dreffed,

upon a

large white courfer, richly caparifoned, attended by his body guards; afterwards, the fecond divifion, five a breaft, as before. The horse also being divided, formed

formed the wings, and kept near the

centre.

This oftentatious parade was to fhew his power to the greatest advantage, to deceive the eye, and intimidate the enemy. Richard's wire-drawn army, would cover the road, at least three miles; they would be more than an hour in marching out of Nottingham, and as long in entering Leicester, fo that to a common obferver, his numbers would feem prodigious. His countenance all the way indicated a troubled mind, and his words declared vengeance. He entered Leicester in all the pomp he could affume, a little after fun fet,

In the north-gate ftreet, yet ftands a large handsome half-timber house, with one story projecting over the other, formerly

an

an inn, the Blue Boar; hence, an adjoining street derives its name, now corrupted into Blubber-lane. In one of the apartments Richard refted that night. The room

seems to have been once elegant, though now in difufe. He brought his own bedftead, of wood, large and in fome places gilt. It continued there 200 years after he left the place, and its remains are now in the poffeffion of Alderman Drake. It had a wooden bottom, and under that a falfe one, of the fame materials, like a floor, and its under ceiling. Between these two bottoms was concealed, a quantity of gold coin, worth about 300l. of our present money, but then worth many times that fum. Thus he perfonally watched his treasure, and flept on his military cheft. Thorsby tells us "this inn was kept in the reign of queen Elizabeth, by one Clarke, whose