The house was beset;
but the king found means to get out, ran across the fields below Waddow
Hall, and passed the Ribble, on the stepping-stones, into a wood on the
Lancashire side, called Christian Pightle, but being closely pursued,
was there taken. From hence he was carried to London, in the most
piteous manner, on horseback, with his legs tied to the stirrups. Rymer
has preserved the grant of a reward for this service, of the estates of
Sir Richard Tunstall, a Lancastrian, to Sir James Harrington, by Edward
IV., dated from Westminster, July 9th, 1465."
At that time Waddington belonged to the Tempests, who inherited it by
virtue of the marriage of their ancestor, Sir Roger, in the reign of
Edward I., with Alice, daughter and heiress of Walter de Waddington. An
alliance had just been made between the Tempests and the Talbots. It may
be presumed, that in order to save their estates (which they afterward
were suffered quietly to possess), they agreed with Sir James to give up
the saintly monarch, which was the reason that the latter had the reward
for what the grant calls "his great and laborious diligence in taking
our great traitor and rebel, Henry, lately called Henry VI.
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