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 WARWICK 467 Crompton. The Warwick railroad extends to Rocky Point and Oakland Beach, popular sum- mer resorts. Drum rock, near the village of Apponaug, is a large rock so nicely balanced upon another that a boy can set it in mo- tion, producing a drum- like noise which can be heard for several miles. There are in the town 22 cotton mills, 2 woollen mills, 2 bleach- cries, and 2 calico works, 2 banks, 2 newspa- per offices, 16 churches, and 20 public and pri- vate schools. It is one of the oldest towns in the state, having been settled previous to 1642. WARWICK, a municipal and parliamentary borough of England, capital of Warwickshire, on the right bank of the Avon, here crossed by a stone bridge, and on the London and Northwestern railway, 85 m. N. W. of Lon- don ; pop. in 1871, 10,986. It is an ancient place, and contains one of the finest feudal castles in the kingdom. One of the towers, 128 ft. high, dates from the latter part of the Warwick Castle. 14th century; another, 147 ft. high, is still older, but of uncertain date. This castle was partially burned, Dec. 3, 1871, and some of its paintings, suits of armor, and other antiquities were lost. Its valuable collections had long been open to the public, and the restoration of the castle was begun by subscription prior to 1873. The town has some manufactures. WARWICK, Guy, earl of, a legendary English champion, supposed to have flourished in the time of the. Saxon king Athelstan, though his existence at any period is problematical. Chau- cer mentions the romance of " Sir Guy " in the " Canterbury Tales." Ellis, in his " Speci- mens of Early English Metrical Romances," suggests that an Icelandic -warrior, Egil, who contributed materially to Athelstan's victory over the Danes at Brunanburg, may be the legendary Guy ; Dugdale even fixes the date of his combat with the Danish giant Colbrand in 926, when he supposes Guy to have been 67 years old ; and Shakespeare alludes to " Col- brand, the giant," in " King John," and to Colbrand and Sir Guy in " Henry VIII." The romance of Sir Guy cannot be traced with cer- tainty further than the early part of the 14th century, though it is evidently founded upon Anglo-Norman materials. " The Booke of the most victoryous Prince Guy of Warwick," in metrical form, was printed by William Cop- land before 1567. There is a prose French romance of Sir Guy printed in 1525, which has been edited by J. Zupitza for the early Eng- lish text society (parts i. and ii., 1875-'6) WARWICK, John Dudley, earl of. See DUDLEY WARWICK, Richard Neville, earl of, surnamed "the king-maker," eldest son of Richard Nev- ille, earl of Salisbury, born soon after 1420, killed at the battle of Barnet, April 14, 1471. About 1449 he married Anne, daughter and heiress of Richard de Beauchamp, earl of War- wick, and on his death in that year was created earl in his place. Through the marriage of his father's sister with the duke of York he was first cousin of the earl of March, afterward Edward IV. lie pos- sessed enormous wealth, and his courage, intelli- gence, eloquence, frank and generous bearing, and liberality, won the affections of all classes. He first distinguished himself as a soldier in an incursion with his fa- ther and the earl of Northumberland across the Scottish border in 1448. He had the cred- it of the victory of the Yorkists over the Lan- castrians at St. Albans, May 22, 1455, and was made governor of Ca- lais, and later commander of the fleet for five years. In May, 1458, he attacked a fleet of 28 sail belonging to Ltibeck, and captured six of them after a battle of six hours. The wars of the roses broke out afresh in 1459, and Warwick joined his father with a large body of troops at Ludlow castle. The surren- der of the Yorkists in October cost him his 1 naval office, but he kept possession of Calais by force. With afresh army of 1,500 men he crossed over to England in June, 1460, and marched upon London. King Henry fled; 40,000 soldiers flocked to Warwick's standard ; the city threw open its gates ; and in the vic- tory of Northampton, July 10, the Yorkists captured the king. (See 'HENRY VI.) The Yorkist troops, defeated by Queen Margaret at Wakefield, Dec. 30, where Richard of York was killed and Warwick's father captured and beheaded, rallied under Warwick at Bernard's Heath, near St. Albans, Feb. 17, 1461, and suf- fered another defeat. Henry was set at lib-