midnight
To the left of the churchyard of Hadley , at this day , the visitor may notice a low wall ; on the other side of that wall is a garden , then but a rude eminence on Gladsmoor Heath . On that spot a troop in complete armour , upon destriers pawing impatiently , surrounded a man upon a sorry palfrey , and in a gown of blue , -- the colour of royalty and of servitude ; that man was Henry the Sixth . In the same space stood Friar Bungey , his foot on the Eureka , muttering incantations , that the mists he had foretold , -LSB- Lest the reader should suppose that the importance of Friar Bungey upon this bloody day has been exaggerated by the narrator , we must cite the testimony of sober Allerman Fabyan : `` Of the mists and other impediments which fell upon the lords ' party , by reason of the incantations wrought by Friar Bungey , as the fame went , me list not to write . '' -RSB- and which had protected the Yorkists from the midnight guns , might yet last , to the confusion of the foe . And near him , under a gaunt , leafless tree , a rope round his neck , was Adam Warner , Sibyl still faithful to his side , nor shuddering at the arrows and the guns , her whole fear concentrated upon the sole life for which her own was prized . Upon this eminence , then , these lookers-on stood aloof . And the meek ears of Henry heard through the fog the inexplicable , sullen , jarring clash , -- steel had met steel .