The pace is slow but not entirely moribund
Richard III and his standard bearer. According to a single source, the Ballad of Bosworth Field, Richard's standard bearer was Sir Percival Thirlwall.The Ballad claims he met a gory end,
Sir Perciuall Thriball, the other hight,
& noble Knight, & in his hart was true;
King Richards standard hee kept vpright
vntill both his leggs were hewen him froe;
to the ground he wold neuer lett itt goe,
whilest the breath his brest ws within;
yett men pray ffor the Knights
that euer was soe true to their King.
The Ballad was a sixteenth-century narrative possibly based on something written by an eyewitness of the battle, probably in the retinue of the Stanleys. (According to the Coat of Arms, Third Series, Vol X1, 2015)
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And scratch-built a pair of late medieval houses.