=Source.=--_Chronicles of the White Rose_, pp. 37, 38, 50, 51.
(Bohn, London: 1845.)
The same night following upon the morn, Wednesday and Thursday, the
14th day of March fell great storms, winds and tempests upon the
sea, so that the said 14th day, in great torment, he came to Humber
Head, where the other ships were dissevered from him, and every from
other, so that of necessity they were driven to land, every one far
from the other. The King, with his ship alone, wherein was the Lord
Hastings, his Chamberlain, and others to the number of five hundred
well chosen men, landed within Humber on Holderness side at a place
called Ravenspurne. The King's brother, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and
in his company three hundred men landed at another place, four miles
from thence. The Earl Rivers, and the fellowship being in his company,
to the number of two hundred, landed at a place called Powle, fourteen
miles from whence the King landed, and the remainder of the fellowship
where they might best get land. That night the King was lodged at a
poor village two miles from his landing, with a few with him; but that
night, and in the morning, the residue that were coming in his ship,
the rage of the tempest somewhat appeased, landed, and alway drew
towards the King.
... The King at that time being at Warwick, and understanding his near
approaching, upon an afternoon issued out of Warwick, with all his
fellowship, by the space of three miles, into a fair field towards
Banbury, where he saw the Duke [of Clarence], his brother, in fair
array come towards him, with a great fellowship. And when they were
together within less than half a mile, the King set his people in
array, the banners displayed, and left them standing still, taking with
him his brother of Gloucester, the Lord Rivers, Lord Hastings, and a
few others, and went towards his brother of Clarence. And in like wise
the Duke for his part, taking with him a few noblemen, and leaving his
host in good order, departed from them towards the King. And so they
met betwixt both hosts, where there was right kind and loving language
betwixt them two, with perfect accord knit together for ever hereafter,
with as heartily loving cheer and countenance as might be betwixt two
brethren of so great nobility and estate.