. Niblett, records that "Hic jacet Edwardus princeps Walliae,
crudeliter interfectus dum adhuc juvenis Anno Domini 1471, mensis Maii
die quarto. Eheu, hominum furor: matris tu sola lux es, et gregis
ultima spes,"--or in English, that "Here lies Edward, Prince of Wales,
brutally murdered while but a youth, in the year of our Lord 1471, on
the 4th of May. Alas! the madness of men. Thou art the only light of
thy mother, and the last hope of the flock." Holinshed writes that the
body of the Prince "was homelie interred with the other simple corpses
in the church of the monasterie of the blacke monks in Teukesburie."
Another MS., which gives a list of noblemen slain in the battle of
Tewkesbury, states more definitely that he was "buried in the midst of
the convent choir in the monastery there." Traces of a coffin-lid were
found near the north-west pier of the tower, and from other evidence
it was taken to be the tomb of the young prince, and this would give
more colour to Hall's statement that he "was buried without any
solemnity among some mean persons in the church of the black friars in
Tewkesbury."

In 1796, when several alterations were made in the church, a brass
plate was inserted in a stone over a tomb in the choir supposed to be
that of the Prince. This tablet is now on the wall of the south
transept. It runs:

"NE TOTA PEREAT MEMORIA
EDWARDI PRINCIPIS WALLIAE
POST PROELIUM MEMORABILE
IN VICINIS ARVIS DEPUGNATUM
CRUDELITER OCCISI HANC TABULAM
HONORARIAM DEPONI CURABAT
PIETAS TEWKESBURIENSIS
ANNO DOMINI MDCCXCVI."

Or in English: "That the memory of Edward, Prince of Wales (brutally
murdered after the famous battle fought in the fields close by),
perish not utterly, the piety of the people of Tewkesbury had this
memorial tablet laid down, A.D. 1796." This tablet is mentioned in the
accounts for that year, and the cost is put down at L10; but perhaps
this included the composition of the Latin inscription, and the stone
in which the plate was inserted. This _pietas Tewkesburiensis_ still
survives, as flowers are annually laid upon the site of the grave.
Before this there was, according to Dingley, who wrote in 1680, a
"fair tombstone of grey marble, the brass whereof has bin pickt out by
sacrilegious hands, directly underneath the Tower of this Church, at
the entrance into the Quire, and sayed to be layd over Prince Edward,
who lost his life in cool blood in the dispute bet