ABSTRACT

None of the other Yorkshire cases are of special interest. One is concerned only with the misfortune of Richard Knyght, a surgeon in the service of the Earl of Warwick, who after Towton could not get leave to go to London and answer a charge of having purloined a bowl belonging to the Craft of Tailors.2 Two other cases arose out of alleged acts of pillage by the Lancastrians, John, Lord Clifford, and Sir William Plumpton, at the expense of political opponents.3 The other cases are all slight; one relates to the ransom of a servant of Sir Thomas Neville, who had been taken prisoner at Wakefield another to the robbery of Richard Langton, parson of Lyth near

Whitby, by servants of Lord Ros, who surmitted him to be a rebel and traitor to King Henry;’ a third seems to be no more than a simple case of pillage without any political motive by soldiers after Towton.1