FRATERNAL FRICTION
Sep 30, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS: NIGE TASSELL
On the morning of 2 February 1461, in a field in Herefordshire, the Sun began to peek over the easterly horizon. But this was no ordinary sunrise. This was a parhelion, a vision where the low Sun appears to reveal itself in triplicate.
Many of those witnessing the phenomenon in this particular corner of the English countryside on this particular morning were mildly terrified at the sight. The witnesses were there in their thousands, soldiers in the service of the Yorkist claimant to the throne – Edward, Earl of March – ready to
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