Battle of Northampton

It was more Sir James's uncle who became the greater parliamentarian.

But again, the Thomas Tyrell, it was, who sat in the parliament that stripped all the Yorkists of their lands and titles and this sort of thing just before the Battle of Northampton.

And there were very much a Lancastrian family.

And it seems that because, obviously, they were based in Suffolk, but principally Essex, they were the Tyrells of Heron.

And the other great magnate of the time was the Earl of Oxford, who, you know, despite his name, his main landholding was Hedlingham Castle in Essex.

So the Tyrrells and the de Vere's, Earls of Oxford, were heavily involved and they were vaguely related by marriage and this sort of thing.

And when Margaret of Anjou had to flee north after the Battle of Northampton, in which two Tyrells fought on the Lancastrian side, she wrote letters, of course, trying to rally support for the Lancastrian cause.

And these letters were intercepted and they implicate William Tyrell, James's father.

It was founded in 1145 as a cluniac nunnery and for hundreds of years women lived and died within those walls.

Then came the Battle of Northampton in 1460.

The grounds around Delaprie became part of another bloody chapter in English history.

Yorkists and Lancasterians fought here.