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AN OUTLINE OF THE LIFE OF 

 RICHARD NEVILLE, THE GREAT EARL OF WAR- 

 WICK AND SALISBURY, CALLED THE 

 KING-MAKER. 



By RICHARD BROOKE, ESQ., F.S.A. 



Waewick — " For thou slialt know, this strong right hand of mine 

 Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head, 

 And wring the awful sceptre from his fist, 

 Were he as famous and as bold in war, 

 As he is fam'd for mUdness, peace, and prayer." 



Shalcespeare's Henry VI., part 3, act 2, scene 1. 



Richard Neville, the eldest son of Richard Neville, 

 Earl of Salisbury, and Alice his wife, daughter of Thomas 

 de Montacnte, Earl of Salisbury, man-ied Anne, daughter 

 of Richard Beauchamp, sixteenth Earl of Warwick (by 

 his second wife), and sister and sole heiress of the whole 

 blood of Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, and in 

 consequence of his marriage with her, and also on 

 account of his services in war, Richard Neville, by patent 

 of the 27th year of King Henry VL, obtained the title 

 and dignity of (18th) Earl of Warwick, and as will be 

 mentioned afterwards, he acquired various other titles, 

 dignities, and offices, of great rank and importance. 



The Earl of Warwick was one of the most powerful 

 noblemen, whom England produced in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury. He possessed vast propei'ty and wealth, was 

 related or nearly allied to the principal and most influen- 

 tial of the English families of rank ; and his own family 

 (the Ne-salles), reckoned amongst its members the most 

 potent and warlike noblemen of the realm. The Earl of 

 Warwick's grandfather was Ralph Neville, fii'st Earl of 

 Westmoreland, who died in the fourth year of Henry IV"., 

 and had by his first wife, Margaret, da^^ghter of Hugh, 



