Extract from Gregory's Chronicle: 1461-1469 in "The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century", ed. James Gairdner (London, 1876)

 

Alle so Edwarde Erle of March, the Duke of Yorke ys sone and heyre, hadde a gre jornaye ay Mortymer ys Crosse in Walys the secunde day of Fenruar nexte soo folowynge, and there he put tpo flight the Erle of Penbroke, the Erle of Wylstchyre. And there he yoke and slowe of knyghtys and squyers, and of the, (so)  to the number of iij Ml., &c.

And in that jornay was Owyn Tetyr i-take and brought unto Herforde este (Haverfordwest)* an he eas be heddyde at the market place, and his hedde sette a-pone the hygheyste gryce of the market crosse, and a madde woman kembyd hys here and wysche a way the blode of hys face, and she gate candellys and sette aboute hym brennynge, moo than a C. Thys Owyne Tytr was fadyr unto the Erle of Penbroke and hadde weddyd Quene Kateryn, King Henry the VI, ys modyr, wenying and trusting  all eway that he shulde not be hedyd tylle he sawe the axe and the blocke, and whenn that he was in hys dobelet he trustyd on pardon and grace tylle the coler of hys redde velvet dobblet was ryppyd of. Then he sayde. "That hede shalle ly on the stocke that was wonte to ly on Quene Kateryns lappe" and put hys herte and mynde holy unto God, and fulle mekely toke hys dethe.

Alle soo the same day that the Erle of Marche shulde take hys jornaye towarde Mortimer ys Crosse fro Hereforde este*, he mousterd hys many with owte the towne walls in a merche that ys callyd Wyg merche**. And ovyr hym men say (saw) iij sonnys schnynyng.