- Type of Memorial
- Obelisk
- WMR Reference Number
- 106427
- Description
- Tall column with square sides showing various details realting to the battle of Evesham
- Inscription
- “GreateLE'STER here expir'd with HENRY his brave Sonne,
When many a high exploit they in that day had done.
Scarce was there noble house of which those times could tell
But that some one thereof,on this or that side fell:
Amongst the slaughtered men,that here lay heap'd on pyles
BOHUNS and BEAUCHAMPS were, BASETS and MANDEVILL's:
HARDREDESHULL,CREPPINGS,LE DESPENSER,BALIOL,ROWELE,
INDE. TRECBY, EINEDYELD, ASTLEY, YORK, BERMINGHAM, TROSSELL,
SEGRAVES, and SAINT JOHNS,seeke,upon the end of all,
To give those of their names their christian buriall.
Ten thousand on both sides were la'n and slain that day;
PRINCE EDWARD gets the gule, and beares the palme away.
Drayton's Polyolbion”
ON THIS SPOT
In the Reign of HENRY III
THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM.
was fought August IV 1265
Between the Kings forces commanded by his eldest Son
PRINCE EDWARD
and
The BARONS under
SIMON DE MONTFORT. EARL of LEICESTER;
In which
The PRINCE by his Skill and Valour
obtained a complete Victory,
and
The EARL with his eldest son HENRY DE MONTFORT,
Eighteen Barons one hundred and sixty knights,
and
Four thousand Soldiers,
were slain in the Battle.