The book offers a detailed route into the transition from Richard III to Henry VII. The selected passage compares Henry's battlefield proclamation with a York memorandum and other records bearing on Francis Lovell's whereabouts. Several of the highest-ranking Ricardian survivors were initially listed as dead, while later evidence shows that they lived. The author weighs deliberate political discouragement of opposition against the simpler explanation of confusion immediately after battle. The competing near-contemporary sources leave more than one explanation to assess.
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Two Courtiers tests who survived Bosworth
Monica E. Simon's Two Courtiers uses conflicting immediate reports to ask whether Francis Lovell fought at Bosworth and why Henry VII named living opponents among the dead.