Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . ye :— Richard the erl of Warwyk, of KnyghthodeLodesterre, borne of a stok that evyr schal be trewe,Havyng the name of prowes and manhoode,Hathe ay ben redy to help and resskeweKyng Edward, in hys right hym to endewe ;The commens therto have redy every houre;The voyx of the peuple, the voix of Jhesu,Who kepe and preserve hym from alle langoure. His immediate task was to finish the war inthe North by the subjugation of Lancastrian castles,while the King held coronation feasts and revelriesin London. It was a longer business tha
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . ye :— Richard the erl of Warwyk, of KnyghthodeLodesterre, borne of a stok that evyr schal be trewe,Havyng the name of prowes and manhoode,Hathe ay ben redy to help and resskeweKyng Edward, in hys right hym to endewe ;The commens therto have redy every houre;The voyx of the peuple, the voix of Jhesu,Who kepe and preserve hym from alle langoure. His immediate task was to finish the war inthe North by the subjugation of Lancastrian castles,while the King held coronation feasts and revelriesin London. It was a longer business than it seemedlikely to be at first. Queen Margaret was a greatadept at intrigue. She managed to get help—though not, it is true, very much help—fromboth Scots and French; and there were sporadicdisturbances, which, if not checked, would soon havebecome formidable, in 1461, 1462, and 1463. Weneed not follow the shifting fortunes of the war indetail; but we must take note of Warwicks morenotable achievements in it. He conducted a winter campaign in an age in 170. Warwick Castle *^ which armies were accustomed to spend the winterin winter quarters, maintaining four separate forces inthe field, and keeping them all well supplied. TheEarl of Warwick, says a Paston letter, is atWarkworth, and rides daily to the castles of Alnwick,Dunstanborough, and Bamburgh, which are beingbesieged, to oversee the sieges; and if they wantvictuals or any other thing, he is ready to purvey itfor them to his power. An incident of one of the battles of the periodmay be quoted for the light which it throws upon hischaracter :— At the departing of Sir Piers de Bressy and hisfellowship, there was one manly man among them,that purposed to meet with the Earl of Warwick ; hewas a taberette (drummer), and he stood upon a littlehill with his tabor and his pipe, tabering and pipingas merrily as any man might. There he stood byhimself; till my lord Earl came unto him he wouldnot leave his ground. Whereupon
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