But Edward must pass within a few miles of Pontefract castle, where Montagu lay with a force that could destroy him at a blow.
The regiment spent a few days in Pontefract and was then disbanded.
In these summer days there was much faring abroad in the broad lands to north and to south of the Pontefract Castle.
The Stayntons were tenants in chief of both the 'honours' of Tickhill and Pontefract.
The celebrated John Harrison was the son of a carpenter on an estate at Pontefract.
We find him, from the 14th to the 16th, at Pontefract; on the 17th, at Doncaster.
The worthy governor seized his arms and dealt some blows, but was quickly disarmed, and Pontefract was again a castle of the king.
Thus at the first siege of Pontefract Castle in 1644 a cannon throwing a 42-lb.
It is barely possible that our modern historians may have been misled by Shakspeare, who makes Pontefract the scene of his death.
At Pontefract he passed in review nearly forty-nine thousand men.