See CINCINNATI: A. D. 1788.
LOSE-COAT FIELD, Battle of.
In 1470 an insurrection against the government of King Edward
IV. broke out in Lincolnshire, England under the lead of Sir
Robert Welles, who raised the Lancastrian standard of King
Henry. The insurgents were vigorously attacked by Edward, at a
place near Stamford, when the greater part of them "flung away
their coats and took to flight, leaving their leader a
prisoner in the hands of his enemies. The manner in which the
rebels were dispersed caused the action to be spoken of as the
battle of Lose-coat Field."
_J. Gairdner,
Houses of Lancaster and York,
chapter 8._
The engagement is sometimes called the Battle of Stamford.
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