![]() Contrary to popular belief, the Battle of Bosworth Field of 22 August 1485 was not the last battle in the Wars of the Roses: that was the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487, when the Yorkist sympathiser, the Earl of Lincoln, was killed, having failed to get Lambert Simnel, who was masquerading as one of the Princes in the Tower, crowned as king.) ![]() So in the original chronicle, the horse was brought to Richard in order to spirit him away from the battle to live another day but in Shakespeare’s version, Richard calls for a horse, not so that he might make an escape but so that he might indeed, as in the chronicle, bring the war to an end of die in the attempt. However, Hall goes on to note that Richard rejected this idea, since he was determined to ‘make an end of all battles or else there finish his life’. ![]() They began ∣ ne to suspect fraude and to smell treason, and not only exhorted but de ∣ terminatly aduysed hym to saue hym selfe by flyght: and when the losse of the battayle was imminent and apparante, they brought to hym a swyfte and a lyght horse to conuey hym awaie. ![]()
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