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Captain of Calais, and of the Tower of Risebank, and 

 Lieutenant of the Marches there, and Governor of the 

 Castle of Guisnes. The latter he bound himself to keep 

 as long as he lived, with forty-eight men-at-arms on foot ; 

 himself and his Lieutenant on horseback, and fifty 

 archers on foot. 



He was likewise constituted General Warden of the 

 East Marches towards Scotland, Lord Great Chamberlain 

 of England for life. Constable of Dover Castle, and Lord 

 High Steward of England, Besides which, in recompence 

 of his many and great services, he obtained a grant in 

 fee of the Manor of More End, in Northamptonshire, and 

 of the Manors of Atherstone and Fulbroke, in Warwick- 

 shire. In 1462 he was made Constable of the Castle of 

 Hammes, in the Marches of Picardy, to be held by himself 

 or his deputy for the term of his life ; and to have there 

 one archer on horseback, and seventeen men-at-arms on 

 foot, and also seventeen archers. 



Besides Warwick's own lands and possessions, which 

 were great, he had many lordships granted to him, as 

 well crown lands, as lands forfeited by attainders of the 

 Lancastrians, and had also several great offices conferred 

 upon him ; so that it has been stated that his revenues 

 were valued at fourscore thousand crowns per annum, 

 besides his own inheritance."' 



Itdoes notappearvery clearly what firstcauseda coolness 

 between King Edward and Warwick, but some historians 

 have stated that Warwick was employed by Edward to 

 treat with Louis XL, King of France, for a marriage be- 

 tween Edward and the Lady Bona, daughter to Louis 

 Duke of Savoy, sister to the French Queen, and that he 

 received a favourable reply; but that in the meantime 

 it happened that Edward, taking the recreation of hunt- 

 ing in Wychwood Forest, near Stoney Stratford, visited 



(1) Phillippe de Commines. Book iii., chap. iv. 



