permission, Dr. PARR says, "As to Bos

"worth Field, six or seven years ago

I ex

plored it, and I found Dick's Well, out of "which the tradition is that Richard drank

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during the Battle. It was in dirty, mossy

ground, and seemed to me in danger of

being destroyed by the cattle. I there"fore bestirred myself to have it preserved, "and to ascertain the owner. The Bishop "of Down spoke to the Archbishop of Ar

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magh, who said that the ground was not "his. I then found it not to be Mrs. "Pochin's. Last year I traced it to a per"son to whom it had been bequeathed by "Dr. Taylor, formerly Rector of Bosworth. "I went to the spot, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Lynes, of Kirkby-Malory. The grounds had been drained. We dug in "two or three places without effect. I then applied to a neighbouring Farmer, a good

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intelligent fellow. He told me his family "had drawn water from it for six or seven

years,

years, and that he would conduct me to "the very place. I desired him to describe "the signs. He said, there were some large "stones, and some square wood, which "went round the Well at the top. We

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dug, and found things as he had described "them; and, having ascertained the very

spot, we rolled in the stones, and covered "them with earth. Now Lord Wentworth, "and some other Gentlemen, mean to fence "the place with some strong stones, and to

put a large stone over it with the following "inscription; and you may tell the story if Yours, &c. S PARR."

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you please.

The

The original Publication of Mr. HUTTON is preserved, in the present Edition, without the slightest alteration; but I have added to it such elucidations as occurred during a long research into the general History of the County of Leicester; and have availed myself, particularly, of the opportunity of annexing some Observations on the important Field of Bosworth, the result of an excursion on the 17th of June 1789, as communicated at the time to one of my Companions in that exploration.

Of the Portraits of the three Monarchs,— that of Edward the Fourth is from an original Painting at Southwick House, Northamptonshire (see Gent. Mag. 1804, vol. LXXIV. p. 997); Richard the Third's is copied from Walpole's "Historic Doubts;"

and