=Source.=--Gregory's "Chronicle," in the _Collections of a London
Citizen_, p. 211. (Camden Society.)
Also Edward Earl of March, the Duke of York's son and heir, had a great
journey at Mortimer's Cross in Wales the second day of February next
so following, and there he put to flight the Earl of Pembroke,[18]
(and) the Earl of Wiltshire. And there he took and slew of knights and
squires to the number of 3,000.
[18] Jasper Tudor.
And in that journey was Owen Tudor taken and brought unto Hereford, and
he was beheaded at the market place, and his head set upon the highest
grice[19] of the market cross, and a mad woman combed his hair and
washed away the blood of his face, and she got candles and set them
about him, burning more than a hundred. This Owen Tudor was father unto
the Earl of Pembroke, and had wedded Queen Catherine, King Harry the
VI.'s mother, thinking and trusting all the way that he should not be
beheaded until he saw the axe and the block, and when that he was in
his doublet he trusted on pardon and grace till the collar of his red
velvet doublet was ripped off. Then he said: "That head shall lie on
the stock that was wont to lie on Queen Catherine's lap," and put his
heart and mind wholly unto God, and full meekly to his death.
[19] Grices = steps upon which crosses are placed.