For an hour the royalist defense held firm and the attack faltered. At this critical moment the earl of Warwick showed why it was he was to become known as the king maker. Seeing that the barricades could not be take by storm, he decided to go around them."... "The ploy worked, Sir Robert Ogle, in command of 600 men from the Scottish marches, took the house between two inns, the sign of the cross keys, and the chequers, and broke into the market place. The blare of trumpets and the ringing war cry of A Warwick! A Warwick! announced the success of this flanking manoeuvre. The royalist in the center sounded the alarm and flew to arms, but again they were too late. The decisive breach had been made."
"At first the king's household put up a brave resistance, but they were in no condition to withstand the hail of arrows now descending upon them."... "After half an hour or so they broke and scattered."... "The King of England, wounded in the neck, sheltered in a tanner's cottage, while his standard lay abandoned in the street." "As soon as it was clear that the field of battle was his, York ordered the kings removal to more dignified quarters in the abbey."... "Less than a hundred men had been killed, mostly Lancastrians... but the deaths of Somerset, Northumberland, and Clifford suggest that York and the Nevilles had intended ... to kill their enemies."... "The problem for the Yorkists was, they still claimed to be loyal to the king... but could not free themselves from their enemies without killing them."
