Near this spot in the reign of Richard II in September 1398 (September 1397 according to local history) a wager of battle was to have been fought between the Duke of Hereford (afterwards Henry IV) and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. Hereford had imputed treasonable utterances to Mowbray, who demanded the privilege of acquitting himself by single combat. The King consented, and came to Coventry in great state to preside but when the combatants presented themselves on the field His Majesty stopped the encounter and pronounced degree of banishment: Hereford for ten years (afterwards remitting four years) and Mowbray for life. Mayor Mr Richard Clarke.
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