ABSTRACT
Margaret of Anjou was summoned on 22 July, the Earl of Warwick bent his knee to the Queen who he had harried from the north in 1463 and he would not have seen since the days of the Lancastrian court. Prospects for the Lancastrians now looked better than at any time for the best part of the last decade. Deserted by his Lancastrian confederates, now abandoned by Clarence, he found himself outflanked and impotent, for Edward now had the road to London clear before him. It was his turn, again, to win the throne, the very sceptre he had taken in 1461, lost in 1469, clung to the following spring, and lost that autumn. Barnet was the obvious vantage for both armies, rising ground that dominated the north road, looking in both directions. A cross ridge runs from Barnet to Wrotham Park, lies to the south of High Stone, by joining of the Hatfield and old St Albans roads.
