Book II.] THE EARL OF WARWICK. 89 



^^ Through the especial favour of the Queen, in the 3rd and 

 4th of PhiHp and Mary, Lord Ambrose Dudley, then eldest 

 surviving son of the attainted John Dudley, Duke of Northum- 

 berland, was restored in blood ; and in the first year of 

 Elizabeth he obtained a grant of the manor of Bibworth 

 Beauchamp, county Leicester, to be held by service of pantler 

 to the kings and queens of England at their coronations, which 

 manor and office his father and other of his ancestors. Earls 

 of Warwick, formerly enjoyed. In the next year he was 

 made master of ordinance for life, and two years afterwards, 

 December 25, 1561, advanced to the peerage as Baron LTsle 

 preparatory to his being created next day Earl OF WARWICK, 

 when he obtained a grant of Warwick Castle, and divers other 

 lordships in the same county, which had come to the crown 

 upon the attainder of his father. His lordship was afterwards 

 created a Knight of the Garter. In the 12th Elizabeth, upon 

 the insurrection in the North of the Earls of Westmoreland 

 and Northumberland, the Earl of Sussex being first despatched 

 against the rebels with 700 men, the Earl of Warwick, with 

 the Lord Admiral Clinton, followed with 13,000 more, the earl 

 being nominated lieutenant-general of the army. The next 

 year he was constituted Chief Butler of England, and soon 

 afterwards sworn of her j\Iajesty's Privy Council. During this 

 year he was one of the peers who sat in Westminster Hall on 

 the trial and judgment of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, as he 

 did fourteen years after at Fotheringay, on the trial of Mary, 

 Queen of Scotland. The Earl of Warwick married, ist, Anne, 

 daughter and co-heir of William Whorwood, Esq., attorney- 

 general to Henry VIII. ; 2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of 

 Gilbert Talboys ; and 3rdly, Anne, daughter of Francis, Earl 

 of Bedford; but died without heirs, in 1589, when all his 

 honours became extinct ; the lordship and lands, which he 

 had obtained by grant (part of the inheritance of the old Earls 

 of Warwick), reverted to the crown. Of these the ancient 



was something much more noble in naming these fine animals from his 

 own family, or that of friends from whom he had purchased them, than 

 the contemptible and nonsensical manner of denominating race-horses 

 at present." — " Hist. Craven," ed. 1878. 



