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Yorkist leaders were attainted, and declared guilty of 

 high treason. 



The Government of Calais having been conferred by 

 Henry's ministers, a short time before the affair of Lud- 

 ford, upon Henry, Duke of Somerset, son of Edmund, Duke 

 of Somerset, who had been slain at the first battle of 

 St. Albans, in 1455, they were anxious to remove 

 Warwick from it, but that was easier said than done ; 

 Somerset had a formidable adversary to deal with, and 

 on approaching Calais, was repulsed by the cannon of 

 the town, and prevented from entering the harbour. 

 Warwick maintained himself there, with a considerable 

 booty which he had acquired at sea, as Admiral, and 

 which is said to have amounted not to less than 

 the value of £10,000 ; for he had, after two days' fight, 

 taken three vessels of Genoa, and two of Spain, laden 

 with merchandize, with the loss of about a hundred men 

 of his own, and a thousand of theirs. 



Somerset being compelled, by the hostile reception at 

 Calais, to land in another place, proceeded to Guisnes, 

 but he was equally unsuccessful there, and had to send 

 to England for succour. Warwick's good fortune still 

 predominated, for Lord Rivers, and his son. Sir Anthony 

 Woodville, afterwards Lord Scales, with ships and a body 

 of men, were detained at Sandwich by contrary winds, 

 and Warwick, having good information of what was 

 going on, sent a body of land forces in some vessels, 

 under the command of Sir John Denham, surprised Lord 

 Rivers and his principal men, in their beds, one morning, 

 and carried them away, with all their ships, to Calais. 



Warwick soon afterwards sailed from Calais to Ireland, 

 to confer with the Duke of York respecting their affairs, 

 and as to effecting a landing in England ; and on his 

 return towards Calais, met the Duke of Exeter, lately 

 made Admiral, Avho had been sent to intercept him ; but 



