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nor until about 1469, when, being in Warwickshire, he 

 sent for his two brothers, George Neville, Archbishop of 

 York, and John Neville, Marquis of Montague, at which 

 time he communicated to them his reasons for the restora- 

 tion of King Henry, and soon won them to his views. 

 Taking advantage of some feeling of discontent which 

 George, Duke of Clarence, the King's brother, enter- 

 tained, Warwick allured him to his side, and in order to fix 

 him more strongly in his interests, gave him Isabel, his 

 eldest daughter, in marriage, with half the lands of her 

 mother's inheritance, and the marriage was solemnized 

 in the Chapel of our Lady, at Calais. 



In 1469 an insurrection broke out in Yorkshire against 

 Edward, which was soon followed by a battle fought at 

 Edgecote, in Northamptonshire, but near Banbury, and 

 from that circumstance called the battle of Banbtiry, 

 where the royal forces were defeated. It is not certain 

 that Warwick was implicated in this insurrection, although 

 it is probable that he was privy to, or encouraged it. He 

 shortly afterwards came over to England, with the Duke 

 of Clarence, and Edward thought it necessary to keep 

 fair with them, but seems to have formed schemes for 

 depressing their power, and to draw off Warwick's 

 brother, John Neville, Earl of Northumberland, after- 

 wards Marquis of Montague, from their party, by 

 dazzling him with the hopes of a marriage between his 

 son, George, Duke of Bedford, and Edward's daughter, 

 the Princess Elizabeth. About this period, however, 

 according to several historians, the Earl of Warwick and 

 the Duke of Clarence succeeded in surprising King 

 Edward in the night, and causing him to be conveyed to 

 Middleham Castle, in Yorkshire, and left in the custody 

 of the Earl's brother, the ArchbishojD of York; but 

 Edward, having been allowed the diversion of hunting in 

 the park, which the Archbishop permitted, madehiscscape. 



