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 38 SALISBURY. .».«•• XL 1+78, 8. Kdward Plantaoenkt, only s. and h. np. of to Richard, Puke of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III.), 1 184. by Anne, 2d and yst. da. of the abovenamed Richard (Nkvii.i.), Earl of Warwick, aud Earl of Salisbury, b. 1473, was et. 15 Feb. 1477/8, EARL OF SALISBURY. He, on the accession of his father to the throne, 26 June 1483, became DUKE OF CORNWALL, and was cr. 24 Aug. following Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER. He d. tmiu. and v p., 31 March 1484, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller particulars under" Cornwall " Dukedom, 14S3 to 14S4. »**#»» XII. HS">, 0. Kdward (Pla.vtagenet), Earl of Salisbury. Loud to Montacutk [1299], Loud Montiieu.mkr [1309], and Lord Monta- 1199. cute [18571, 1st and only surv. a. and h. of George, Diikk of ClaIIKNCK, by Isabel, da. and coheir of Richard (Nevill), Earl OF Warwick and Eaul of Salisbury, b. 21 Feb. 1474, at Warwick Castle ; was present (as Barlof Warwick) at the coronation, ti July 14S3, of his uncle, Richard III., by whom he was knighted S Sep. following-, tho', shortly afterwards, that King imprisoned him at Sheriff Hoton, co. Yolk, whence he was removed in 1485 by Henry VII. bo the Tower of London .(*) By the death, 16 March 14S. r >, s.p.s., of the Queen Consort Anne, his mother's only sister, he became jurcmatris EARL OF SALISBURY, &c, aa above, and bv the dentil, about 14y0, of his maternal grandmother, Anne. sun jure Counters of Warwick, he became EARL UF WARWICK, under which title he had all his life hern geuerally known. (•>) Planning together with Perkin Warbeck an escape from the Tower he was judged to have conspired with that pretender to the Crown and was accordingly executed for high treason on Tower Hill, 28 Nov. 1499, aged 25. He d. uniii. and was bur. (with his maternal ancestors) at Bisham, Berks. Having been attainted, 19 Jan. (1503/4), all his honours became forfeited. «♦•!.«. of Clarence, had been forfeited in 1477; there were consequently two Earldoms of Salisbury from the period of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence's death, 12 Dec. 1476, till her husband's attainder in the year following, and two Edward I'lantagenets, Earls of Salisbury from the creation of Edward (son of Richard, Duke of Gloucester) If) Feb. 1477, till his death 1484." It should, however, be noted that Isabel, Duchess ol Clarence, was, apparently, never a suo jure Countess, and that she was not sole heir, but only one of two coheirs to the Earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury. It may, indeed, be argued (with, it is conceived, great plausibility) that the creation of her husband by those titles was equivalent to the termination of the abeyance of them in her favour, but such apparently is not the view of Courthope, who speaks of that Earldom of Salisbury (cr. or restored in 1472) as having been forfeited. It was not till after the death (s.p.s.) 16 March, 1485, of Anne, Queen of Richard III, the sister and coheir of the said Isabel (a date luter than the period treated of by Courthope) that the issue of Isabel became sole heir to these ancient Earldoms. The wonls " Isabel, da. and heir of Richard," in the Act of Restoration, should read " Isabel, whose issue, after 1485, became heir of Richard," a sort of inaccuracy that is very frequently met with in documents of that, and of much later date. (a) His title to the Crown as the s. and h. of an elder brother was superior to that of Richard III., while, as to that of the lu'/c of Henry VII. (for that of Henry himsclj, save by Conquest, is too ludicrous to be seriously discussed) many people at that date considered the claim of the heir male (which this Edward w-as) superior to that of the female heir general. Imprisonment for life and an early and unjust death was the penalty. With him the house of Plautogeuet, which hud reigned 331 years, became extinct in the male line. ( b ) As eldest son and heir apparent of George, Duke of Clarence (Earl of Warwick and Salisbury) he would have been from his birth entitled to the style of Earl ol Warwick, and that ancient title (to which since he was 11 years old he had been heir apparent) he appears to have always retained, tho' (inasmuch as his father's Earldom of Warwick was, like his other titles, under attainder after 1478) he was not strictly entitled thereto till about 1490 when he sue. his maternal grandmother, Anne, suo jure Countess ok Warwick, in that diguity.