Lord Dacre's Last Drink

[Stuart H]

Just finished this vignette from my Battle of Towton project.



The story goes that during the battle, that Randolf Dacre, 1st Lord Dacre of the North of Gilsland, paused for a drink and taking off his bevor, was shoot thorough the neck and killed. It is claimed that he was hit by a bolt fired from behind a bur tree by the son of a man Lord Dacre killed previously.



“This Lord Dacres, as the report goeth, was slayne by a boy, at Towton Field, which boy shot him out of a burtree, when he had unclasped his helmet to drink a cup of wyne, in revenge of his father, whom the said lord had slayne before, which tree hath beene remarkable ever since by the inhabitants, and decayed within this few yeares. The place where he was slayne is called the North Acres, whereupon they have this ryme. The Lord Dacres Was slayne in the North Acres” Glover 1585.



More on it on my blog http://28mmtowton.blogspot.com/.

Thanks

Stuart

[Romark]

Nice vignette and story 

[bluewillow]

great piece!

cheers
Matt

[commissarmoody]

Very cool.

[Rick F]

Nice little piece for the table and interesting story.

[Totleben]

It has the full story. 

[Atheling]

Fab vignette.

Every picture tells a tale and your vignette does that brilliantly