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Parliament, and discharged the Duke of York from the 

 office of Protector. The Earl of Salisbury was removed 

 from the office of Lord Chancellor. Sometime afterwards 

 Margaret and some of the Lancastrian party, appear to have 

 formed a scheme for getting York, Salisbury, and War- 

 Avick into their power ; and being with Henry at Coventry, 

 caused the King to send for them to that city. They 

 proceeded accordingly towards it, but having received 

 some intimation that danger awaited them there, they 

 got away ; York to his castle at Wigmore, in Hereford- 

 shire, in the Marches of Wales ; Salisbury to his castle at 

 Middleham, in Yorkshire ; and the Earl of Warwick to 

 Calais. 



However, in 1458, King Henry, and Thomas Bourchier, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, and several other Bishops, 

 being desirous to terminate the feuds between the par- 

 tizans of the factions of York and Lancaster, overtures 

 were made for a meeting, with a view to a reconciliation; 

 and accordingly the great leaders of the rival parties 

 met in London, in 1458. Warwick presented himself 

 there, amongst the others, he having come over from 

 Calais, and was attended by six hundred men, all wearing 

 his livery, in red coats, with white ragged staves, embroi- 

 dered before and behind. A hollow and transient ap- 

 pearance of reconciliation took place, and the great 

 opposite leaders went together, in solemn procession, to 

 St. Paxil's Church, to celebrate the seeming termination 

 of hostile feelings. 



Not long afterwards, however, happened an affray, 

 betAvccn a servant of the King and one of the Earl of 

 Warwick's followers, and it gave colour to a report that 

 there was a design to kill the Earl, which occasioned 

 him to hasten to Calais, to make sure of that important 

 place. 



In the summer of 1459, Warwick brought over a body 



