=Source.=--Ingulph's _Chronicles_, pp. 425, 426. (Bohn Edition.)
Edward pursued them as far as a level spot of ground, situate near
the castle of Pomfret and the bridge at Ferrybridge, and washed by
a stream of considerable size; where he found an army drawn up in
order of battle, composed of the remnants of the northern troops of
King Henry. They, accordingly, engaged in a most severe conflict,
and fighting hand to hand with sword and spear, there was no small
slaughter on either side. However, by the mercy of the Divine clemency,
King Edward soon experienced the favour of heaven, and, gaining the
wished-for victory over his enemies, compelled them either to submit to
be slain or to take to flight. For, their ranks being now broken and
scattered in flight, the King's army eagerly pursued them, and cutting
down the fugitives with their swords, just like so many sheep for the
slaughter, made immense havoc among them for a distance of ten miles,
as far as the city of York. Prince Edward, however, with a part of his
men, as conqueror, remained upon the field of battle, and awaited the
rest of his army, which had gone in various directions in pursuit of
the enemy.
When the solemnities of the Lord's day, which is known as Palm
Sunday, were now close at hand, after distributing rewards among such
as brought the bodies of the slain, and gave them burial, the King
hastened to enter the before-named city. Those who helped to inter the
bodies, piled up in pits and in trenches prepared for the purpose,
bear witness that eight-and-thirty thousand warriors fell on that day,
besides those who were drowned in the river before alluded to, whose
numbers we have no means of ascertaining. The blood, too, of the slain,
mingling with the snow, which at this time covered the whole surface of
the earth, afterwards ran down in the furrows and ditches along with
the melted snow, in a most shocking manner, for a distance of two or
three miles.