Sheriff Hutton

He not only issued proclamations against Henry and his adherents, but raised money by forced loans, a thing differing only by a shade from those unpopular benevolences.

which he had declared by act of parliament should no longer be enforced caused the coast to be guarded sent the princess elizabeth to sheriff hutton to be out of the way and took up his position with an army at nottingham in the centre of the kingdom so as to be equally ready to meet the invader in whatever quarter he might land henry determined to land in his own native district He had received messages by one Morgan of Kidwelly, a lawyer, that Rhys App Thomas, a valiant captain of South Wales, and another named Sir John Savage, were ready to take part, and he had every reason to believe that his uncle, Jasper Tudor, on his reappearance in that country, would be at once greeted as Earl of Penbrook, notwithstanding his attainder.

The French king had given him a body of troops under the command of an able leader named Philip de Cholmde.

and with these and a whole body of his English followers he embarked at Harfleur on the 1st of August.

he was naturally therefore led to rest his claim as much as possible on his own inherent right without however challenging minute investigation or discrediting the title of the rival house of york whose heiress he was about to marry and having been thus crowned upon the field of battle he at once took upon himself the royal title without any further ceremony to intimate his accession indeed it would appear by some evidences he had even assumed the title before the battle and summoned his Welsh subjects to his standard to enable him to

wrest his kingdom from the hands of a usurper.

His first act after the victory was to send for Sir Robert Willoughby to Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire, and the castle to which the Princess Elizabeth had been sent by Richard's orders to be out of the way.

Here was also Edward,

The preparations made by Henry for the invasion of England were so well known that Richard took the most active measures to meet the coming danger.

He not only issued proclamations against Henry and his adherents, but raised money by forced loans, a thing differing only by a shade from those unpopular benevolences which he had declared by act of parliament should no longer be enforced, caused the coast to be guarded, sent the Princess Elizabeth to Sheriff Hutton to be out of the way, and took up his position with an army at Nottingham in the centre of the kingdom, so as to be equally ready to meet the invader in whatever quarter he might land.

Henry determined to land in his own native district.

He had received messages by one Morgan of Kidwelly, a lawyer, that Rhys ap Thomas, a valiant captain of South Wales, and another named Sir John Savage, were ready to take part, and he had every reason to believe that his uncle, Jasper Tudor, on his reappearance in that country, would be at once greeted as Earl of Pembroke, notwithstanding his attainder.

And having been thus crowned upon the field of battle, he at once took upon himself the royal title without any further ceremony to intimate his accession.

Indeed, it would appear by some evidences he had even assumed the title before the battle, and summoned his Welsh subjects to his standard to enable him to wrest his kingdom from the hands of a usurper.

His first act after the victory was to send for Sir Robert Willoughby to Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire, and the castle to which the Princess Elizabeth had been sent by Richard's orders to be out of the way.

Here was also Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of the unhappy Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV.