THE ROUT OF LUDFORD (1459), occured during the Wars of the Roses.
At Ludford, Oct. 13, Henry VI having advanced with a superior army, was joined by Sir Andrew Trollope,
with a large body of troops that had deserted the Duke of York at Ludlow, on which the Duke, with his sons, the Earl of March,
afterwards Edward IV, and the Earl of Rutland, and his valiant friends the Earls of Salisbury and
Warwick, fled; York and Rutland to Ireland, March, Salisbury, and Warwick, to Calais. The King then entered and plundered Ludlow.
