An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . V. p. 2. Genealogical Hiltory. m. 20. Pat. 2. Edw. IV. p. i. (z) Phil. Comines. m. 13. (a) Rot. Pari. 38. Hen. VI. n. 12. (c) Sandford, ubi fupra. [ 56 ] After the death of this carl, the countefs his widow lived Ingreat diftrefs. The vaft inheritance of the Warwick familyw?-S taken from her by authority of parliament, a
An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . V. p. 2. Genealogical Hiltory. m. 20. Pat. 2. Edw. IV. p. i. (z) Phil. Comines. m. 13. (a) Rot. Pari. 38. Hen. VI. n. 12. (c) Sandford, ubi fupra. [ 56 ] After the death of this carl, the countefs his widow lived Ingreat diftrefs. The vaft inheritance of the Warwick familyw?-S taken from her by authority of parliament, as if ilie hadbeen naturally dead, and given to her two daughters, herheirs, Ifabel and Anne before mentioned. She herfelf wasconftrained to take fanduary in the abbey of Beaulieu ; but afterwards, leaving that place privately, fhewent into the north, where Ihe lived fome years in a poorcondition. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, in regardcf his marriage with Isabel, was, by his brother, kingEdward IV. in the 14th year ofhis reign, created Earl of War-wick and Salifbury, being at thattime lieutenant of Ireland, and greatchamberlain to the king(d). Heheld his chief refidence at Warwickcaftle, and being a great builder,began to ftrengthen and beautify the. Gecrae of Jfanvtck ? place by new works. He intended. had he lived, to have walled thetown, and to have added an outwork to the caftle; as alfoto have purchafed the fields over-agalnft the caftle, whichformerly belonged to the Knights Templars, and thence borethe name of Temple-fields, in order to make a park under thewindows of his caftle : but before he could put thofe defignsin execution, falling under the fufpicion of his brother, theking, he was imprifoned in the tower of London, and on the15th of January, 1477, in parliament attainted of high-treafon (e). On the i8ih of February following, after hehad offered his mafs-penny in the chapel of the Tower, hewas drowned in a butt of Malmefey, by confent of the
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