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There was at least one royal clerk present at the Battle of Towton (someone needed to take notes!), he lived and made a claim for the loss of money and a book on the battlefield. He received £30. 3/3 UK National Archives, E 404/72/1/26.

Image from "The Battle of Towton (1461): a 550-Year Retrospective", by James Ross, from Magazine of the Friends of The National Archives, Vol. 22, No. 2, August 2011. We see a document with eight lines of lovely (mostly illegible to me, though I can pick out some words) medieval handwriting, no illumination or signature. The magazine's caption appears below the image of the document: "The Royal Clerk's claim for compensation for the loss of cash and a book on the battlefield at Towton, for which he received the sum of £30."
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