On this day in 1460, following the Battle of Wakefield, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was executed.

Of Richard Neville's death the English Chronicle writes:

....."The Earl of Salisbury was taken alive and led by the said Duke of Somerset to the castle of Pomfret, and for a great sum of money that he should have paid had grant of his life. But the common people of the country, which loved him not, took him out of the castle by violence and smote off his head."

Image: Richard Neville depicted in the Salisbury Roll.

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