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the Duchess of Bedford, at her residence at Grafton, in 

 Northamptonshire, and there saw EHzabeth, the widow 

 of Sir John Grey, who lost his life on the Lancastrian 

 side, at the first battle of St, Albans, and that Edward 

 was so captivated with her beauty, that he eventually 

 concluded to marry her. 



It has been said, that after King Edward had obtained 

 the crown, through the power of the Earl of Warwick, 

 suspecting danger by his greatness, he endeavoured to 

 diminish his powei', which being discovered by Warwick, 

 he sought every opportunity to work the King's ruin ; 

 and also that Warwick having used many arguments to 

 dissuade the King from giving his sister Margaret in 

 marriage to Charles, son of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, he 

 felt aggrieved that he could not prevail. Whatever it 

 might be that caused the breach between King Edward 

 and Warwick, several years elapsed before their disunion 

 became apparent to the world. 



In 1463 the Lancastrians, under Queen Margaret, again 

 attempted to make head in the north against King- 

 Edward, who laid siege to the Castles of Alnwick, Bam- 

 borough, and Dunstanborough ; the two latter capitulated 

 on Christmas Eve, and in January, 1464, Alnwick surren- 

 dered to the Earl of Warwick. Edward in the same year 

 empowered the Earl of Warwick, and John Neville, Earl 

 of Northumberland, afterwards Marquis of Montague, to 

 receive all rebels concei'ned in the disturbances in the 

 north, to mercy (with one or two exceptions), upon their 

 submission. Warwick laid siege to the Castle of Bam- 

 borough, and his cannon beat down a tower, and in its 

 fall it so injured the Governor, Sir Ralph Grey, that he 

 was taken up for dead, and afterwards executed, and the 

 gariison surrendered the Castle. Warwick then marched 

 to Berwick, took the town, burnt one or tAVO places in 

 Scotland, and by those hostilities accelerated the conclu- 



