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and Warwick, the latter was too proud aud spirited to 

 accept his intervention, but indignantly rejected it, and 

 prepared for battle. Warwick's army was encamped at 

 a place then called Gladmore Heath, now enclosed, on 

 the north-westward side of Barnet, from which it is dis- 

 tant aboiit a mile, and just beyond the small village of 

 Hadley, in the county of Middlesex, but very near the 

 borders of Hertfordshire. Edward had advanced with his 

 army from London to Barnet, and passing through it, 

 encamped and passed the night prior to the battle in the 

 open field, near the forces of Warwick. 



On Easter Sunday, the 14th of April, 1471, the battle 

 of Barnet was fought between the rival armies, and ter- 

 minated in a complete victory obtained by the Yorkists 

 over the Lancastrians ; in which the Earl of Warwick 

 the Marquis of Montague, manj'" knights and gentlemen, 

 and a great number of common soldiers, were slain. 

 Phillippe de Commines informs us that Warwick never 

 used to fight on foot ; but his practice was, when he had 

 led his men to the charge, then to take horse, and if 

 victory fell on his side, to fight amongst his soldiers, other- 

 wise to depart in time ; but that at this battle, he was 

 induced by his brother, the Marquis of Montague, to alight 

 on foot, and send away his horse. 



The bodies of Warwick and the Marquis of Montague 

 were conveyed in a cart to London, and exposed to view 

 in St. Paul's Cathedral Church for three days, in order 

 that no doubt might exist as to their deaths ; they were 

 then buried in Bisham Abbey, in Berkshire, which had 

 been founded or endowed by an ancestor, one of the 

 Montagues : the Abbey was destroyed at the dissolution 

 of Monasteries ; their tombs were broken, and all know- 

 ledge of the exact spots where their mortal remains 

 were interred, is now utterly forgotten. 



So terminated the career of the great Earl of Warwick, 



