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TABLE C: TOTALS AND CATEGORIES OF COMBATANTS, 1475

		Men-		Auerage no.		Ratio of
	No. of contingent	at-		per commander:		archers to
	commanders	arms	Archers	MAA	Archers	men-at-arm
A: Household Bannerets	7	69	720	10	103	10 to 1
Knights	5	39	370	8	54	7 to 1
Esąuires	28	107	910	4	32	8 to 1
Gentlemen	2	2	7	1	3ł	3ł to 1
Others ‘Gentlemen of the house	7	10	80	ił	nł	8 to 1
of the lord king’ ‘Archers of the	1	43	3^16	43	3^1®	7ł to 1
king’s chambers’			184
To tal of A: B: Peers—royal relations and holding household	50	270	2387
appointments	11	5^l6	4,080	47	37i	8 to 1
C: Other officials	9	29	^!34	3	15	5 to i
Total o/A, B & C:	70	815	6,801
D: Other peers E: Other—non-household:	12	231	1,619	16	135	9 to 1
Bannerets	5	32	272	6	54	O H<N CO
Knights	13	52	449	4	35	9 to 1
Esquires	52	9>	672	2	i3ł	7 to 1
Gentlemen	6	5	32	1	5	5 to 1
Others	32	40	268	1	8	8 to 1
Total of D & E:	120	45^1	2312
F: Scottish lords:	2	8	60	4	3°	7ł to 1
Total of D, E & F:	122	4^3	337^2
Total of all categories:	192	1,278	10,173
Total of commanders, men-at-arms,	, and archers				• 11,451
Add technical personnel (transport,	miners, craftsmen, etc.)				■■ 387
Grand total					.. 11,838
Plus non-combatants—secretaries, royal servants, councillors, etc—possibly another 10% or 12%					.. 1,182

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The Earl of Oxford, who had escaped to France after Barnet, madę a landing in Essex and another at St Michael’s Mount, but failed to raise an army. He surrendered in February 1474.

In 1475 Edward raised an army and inv^ded France, but abandoned the expedition in return for a substantial cash payment. Peace and prosperity at last descended on the realm, the only cloud being Clarence who, dissatisfied with his position, ąuarrelled with both Edward and Richard. In 1477 matters came to a head over some murders carried out on Clarence’s orders, and a rising in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, led by a man claiming to be the Earl of Oxford—a rising almost certainly inspired by Clarence. Clarence was arrested and sent to the Tower, where he died some six months later.

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