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 58 WARWICK. •ad WoHMttor ; headed 140 men at arma and 800 archera (the iaigeat contingent) in the Scotch campaign of 1886 ; P.C., 1386-89 ; waa one of the Lorda appellant who appealed of treaaon the Kiog'a adviaere, and who were accordingly condemned in Feb. 1888, theae Lorda remaining paramount till 3 May 1389. After aome yeara' retire- ment(>) he waa arreated fur high tn^aaon, 8 July 1396, and imprisoned in the Tower of London,(b) confeaaing hit treaaon, 28 Sep., whereby accordingly kii k/onoun and eatatea were forfeited, he himaelf being banished to the lale of Man, tho' recommitted to the Tower, 12 July 1398, till liberated on the acceasiou of Henry IV., in Sep. 1899, when he waa retiored 19 Not. 1899. He took part, aa afMl., in that Riug'a coronation, waa of hia privy council and joined him in Jan. 1400 againat the rebel Lorda. He «. before April 1880, Margaret (niece of hia elder bruther'a wife), da. of William (FiBliBBS), liOiiD Fkhiikiim dk Ohouy, by Ilia firat wifu, Miugarut, da. of Kobert (Uftobd), Babl Suvvolk. He d. 8 April 1401, aged about 56, and waa bur. in Warwick church. M.L(o) Will dat. 1 April 1400.(<i) Admon., 27 May 1401, at Lambeth. Aek., 2 Hen. IV. Hia widow d, 22 Jan. 1406/7 and waa bur. with him. Her will dat. 28 Not. 1406. Esch., 8 Hen. IV. XIII. 1401. IS. RiOHARD (Bkauchahp), Earl of Warwick, only a. and h. ; 6. 28 Jan, 1381/2, at Sal warp, co. Worceater, hia apousora being Richard II. and Richard Scrope, afterwarda Archbiahop of York : waa 1L.B. at the coron of Hen. IV., 12 Oct 1399 ; tue. hie father, 8 April 1401, having liyery of hia landa, 18 Feb. 1402/8. He captured the banner of Owen Qlendower in 1408, and fought againat the rebela at Shrewabury in that year. K.G. 22 July 1403.(*; From 1408 to 1410 he waa abroad, viaiting Rome, Jeruaalem, ko. ; P.O. 1410 ; Joint Commiaar. to treat with Scotknd, 1411 ; I^ Hiuu Stkwaud for the coron. of Hen. V., 9 April 1418 ; Warden of the Welah marchea, 1418 ; waa inatrumental in auppreaaing the liOllarda, 1414 ; waa on aeveral important embasaiea to France, Burgundy, Germany and the Council of Couatance, 1414/19 ; Capt of Calaia and Qov. of Picardy, 1414-28, receiving the Emperor Sigiamund, then on hia way to England ; won Domfront from the French in 1418 ; joined in the aiege of Rouen and received ita capitulation in 1419 ; Capt of Beauvaia, 1419 ; took the town of Melun, 1420 ; arranged the truce with France, pre|>aratory to the marriage of Hen. V. with Katharine, at whoae coronation, 21 Feb. 1421, he wa« Deputy L. High Steward. Soon after the death, 22 March 1421, of the King'a uncle, Thomaa, Duke of Clarence and Earl of Albemarle, he appear8(0 to have been cr. EARL OF ALBEMARLE for life.(<) In 1422 he received the aurrender of Meaux. He waa, in 1422, P.O. and a Councillor of Regency to the new King, Hen. VI. ; waa made Capt. of the dty of Rouen, 1428 and Lieut-Qen. "for the field " in Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Ac., 1426 ; Joint Guardian of the truce with Scothmd, 1426. From 1 June 1428 to 19 May 1485 he waa Tutor (») During the period he built " Uuy*B tower," in Warwick Caatle, finiahed in 1894, at the coat of £395. (^) He gave hia name to ** the Beauchamp Tower " in that fortreaa. (^) A aplendid engraving thereof ia in Wallera " Monumental Brauet" with a good account aJao of the Earl'a career. Hia head in helmet ia (aa ia that of his father) engraved in " Doyle.** (d) q«||« aword and coat of mail of Guy of Warwick appear alao in thia will (aee p. 57, note " e ") likewiae the ** harneaa and rugged atavea ; " alao '* a bed of ailk embroidered with beara and my arma," thua illuatrating the well-known cognieauce of the Houae of Warwick, vts., the bear and ragged ataif. (*) Thia ia the date aaaigned in " Doyle " and a very probable one. He ia in Belts'a '* KnighU of the Oarter " conjectured to aucceed to a vacancy that occurred 16 Jan. 1899/400, but he waa then under age and did not aucceed to the Earldom till 14 year after th^t date. No leaa than 8 vacanciea occurred in July 1403. (0 See vol. i, p. 57, note "c," $ub. " Albemarle." (a) '* It waa preanmably on the capture of Aumarle, or Aumale, in Normandy thia year [1419] that the King grants him the additional title of Earl of Aumarle, which he bore in hia later yeara." [Nat. Biog. in an article by Jamea Gairdner.] If thia theory, which leema probable, be adopted, we muat conaider the grant aa one of the Anglo-Norman Earldoma conferred by Hen. V., for unqueationaby an Engliah Earldom of Albemarle, held by the Duke of darence, exiated aa lute aa 1421. «»••