( richard , duke of york , the earl of salisbury , the earl of rutland , sir richard limbrick , sir edward bourchier , sir thomas harrington , sir william parr , john harrow and john hanson ) curiously , whilst he failed to include sir joseph pickering in his list , he did regale the doctors with the legendary tale of the crowning of the duke of york 's severed head with a paper crown in mockery of his aspirations to the english throne , and the murder of the young earl of rutland , butchered by lord clifford of skipton ( who , for some reason , was fighting , despite his seat at the `` gateway to the yorkshire dales '' , on the side of the lancastrian house , thus rendering himself a double traitor in the eyes of the yorkists and fully deserving his brutal death ( his throat was transfixed by a blunted arrow ) at towton on palm sunday of the following year ) in the house of a woman named jemimah grundy .