The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons : comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain . rfull a man, andknowne to bee a man that would keepe his promise, the LordKennedie hearing of it, (fearing hee could hardly long escapehis hands,) resolved, by way of prevention, to be himselfe thepresenter of his owne head unto him ; and accordingly, (keeping ARCHIBALD, FIFTH EARL OF DOUGLAS. his owne intention close to himselfe,) he came privately to Wig-ton ; where, finding the Earle Douglas at his devotion in SaintNinnians church, (a place famous, in those dayes, for the fre-quent
The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons : comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain . rfull a man, andknowne to bee a man that would keepe his promise, the LordKennedie hearing of it, (fearing hee could hardly long escapehis hands,) resolved, by way of prevention, to be himselfe thepresenter of his owne head unto him ; and accordingly, (keeping ARCHIBALD, FIFTH EARL OF DOUGLAS. his owne intention close to himselfe,) he came privately to Wig-ton ; where, finding the Earle Douglas at his devotion in SaintNinnians church, (a place famous, in those dayes, for the fre-quent resort of pilgrimes thither,) immediately after divine ser-vice, offered his head to the Earle, as one who had deserved thepromised reward, and did crave it. The Earle seing the reso-lution and confident assurance of the man, who had put him-selfe in his power and mercy, forgave him all former faults,made him his friend, and withall gave him the reward he hadpromised, disponing to him and his heires the lands of Stuar-ton, which his successiours, the Earles of Cassils, doe peace-ably enjoy to this day. 6. \ RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK. 1381 1439. MONUMENT AT WARWICK. Richard Beauchamp, son of Thomas Earl of Warwick, byMargaret, daughter of William Lord Ferrers of Groby, wasborn at Salwarpe in Worcestershire, on the twenty-eighth dayof January, 1381. His godfathers were, King Richard theSecond, and the then Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,Richard Scrope, afterwards Archbishop of York. At the Coro-nation of King Henry the Fourth, he was created a Knight ofthe Bath, being at that time only nineteen years of age; and inthe fifth year of that kings reign, at the Coronation of QueenJane, the Earl, according to the chivalrous gallantry of thosedays, declared himself her Majestys champion against allopponents, and acquitted himself with so great credit, thathe was retained to serve the King for one year, with a retinueof one hundred men at arms, and three hundred archers : of
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