Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 137, the Battle of Shrewsbury.

Okay everyone, really sorry I'd been way too long, I missed you.

But I thought I'd let you know that I have incidentally just brought a second hand copy

of a book called The Safe Car of the Sea by NAM Rodgers. Part of his series of books

on the history of the British Navy, it is quite superb, also not unordable, but hey, but

I hardly recommend the book. Though it did make me laugh a bit yesterday, because this is

a man who knows his boats and the forgotten art of saving boats the boat and he may not quite

understand that the rest of us may not have the same level of knowledge, so here's a little sample

for you. All seagowing ships seemed to have been fitted with a spa known as a luth to boom out

of the weathertack. I mean I understand each word on its own, it's just this specific configuration

with all of them working together I'm having a problem with. But seriously, I recommend it to you,

and at some point probably during Henry V and his reconstruction of the Navy, there'll be

more back ships on the way. So last time we left England in the grip of Civil War, the

purses have raised the banner of Defiance and Rebellion, invoked the name of Richard and

marched to the Welsh borders. While we don't know for certain if there was some arrangement

with Glindor, it seems pretty likely, but the purses also wanted to stop Henry teaming

up with his son. In that they'd failed. Henry, as he'd done for the epiphany rising, had

acted decisively and got to Shrews' rebuff all them. It meant both that he teamed up with

the Earl of Stafford and with his son, the Prince Henry. It also meant that Glindor would

not have the time to get an army up to support Hotspur and influence events. Stymid, by the

closed gates of Shrewsbury, the purses retired to Barric Field outside the town. We've heard

something of the leader of this army, Harry Hotspur, but he had two luthanents with him,

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