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The above illustration is from  In search of Shakespeare in Gloucestershire 

The article states that “Shakespeare takes liberties with Tewkesbury” (and calls Richard III a scallywag!) and then lists all the things that are wrong in the Bard’s accounts. But it doesn’t notice the glaring error in the above illustration’s caption. I’d like to know how Warwick captured anyone at Tewkesbury when he’d died the previous month at Barnet! Oops!

I’m also curious about the “mound” in the left background in this illustration with the building on top. There’s nothing like that at Tewkesbury, but here in my home village of Churchdown there IS an isolated hill with a church (with a low tower) on top, which isn’t far away from Tewkesbury…although further than the illustration suggests. The hill is believed to have played a part in the Battle of Tewkesbury, and you can read about it here.