"What rendered Nixon the most noticed was, that the time when
the battle of Bosworth Field was fought between King Richard
III. and King Henry VII., he stopped his team on a sudden, and
with his whip pointing from one land to the other, cried 'Now
Richard! now Henry!' several times, till at last he said, 'Now
Harry, get over that ditch and you gain the day!'"
This the plough-holder related; it afterwards proved to be true, and
in consequence Robert was required to attend Henry VII.'s court, where
he was "starved to death," owing to having been locked in a room and
forgotten. The Bosworth Field prophecy, which has often been repeated,
{327} carries the time of Nixon's existence much before the period named
by T. HUGHES, namely, James I.'s reign.