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double of what it has managed to retain. Ten years later the courage shown by the men of Stamford at the battle of Empingham or "Bloody Oaks" close by, on the North Road, where the Lancastrians were defeated, caused Edward IV. to grant permission for the royal lions to be placed on the civic shield of Stamford, side by side with the arms of Earl Warren. He had had the manorial rights of Stamford given to him by King John in 1206, and he is said to have given the butchers a field in which to keep a bull to be baited annually on November 13, and the barbarous practice of "bull running" in the streets was actually kept up till 1839, and then only abolished with difficulty.
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St. Mary's Street, Stamford.