Thank you, Colyn Evans, for correcting my error in saying Edward IV was executed in an inhumane manner when I should have said Edward II.

I must confess to feeling uneasy on not checking up on it, but I was at odds as to how he related to Edward the Confessor and, of course, he doesn’t. He was the son of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castille and born in 1284.

Clearly, then, I’m no great historian, but that subject interests me.

The Plantagenets are commemorated in Abergavenny behind the Angel Hotel. However, the most interesting of monarchs is Harry Monmouth, Henry V, who included 200 Welsh longbow men among the troops he took to Agincourt.

A contemporary chronicler is reputed to have said that 200 of the villainous archers of Wales slaughtered 5,000 of the flower of France with their accursed arcs rough hewn from elm.

The French hacked the arrow fingers off captured Welsh archers, hence the defiant two-finger salute!

To return to Edward II, his agonised screams were said to be heard by persons living outside Berkeley Castle as he was tortured by Sir Thomas Gourney, so I’m not convinced about his cruel demise being dubious.

Walt Jackson, Usk