Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . Kent, the Kentish menhad rallied to them, and they were marching uponLondon. The King was in the Midlands, whitherhe had gone to face the northern rebels, and couldnot stay their progress ; and these northern rebelsdid all the fighting that was required. The royalforces were defeated at Edgecott; and Edward, whohad not been at that battle, was surrounded at Olney.There George Neville, Archbishop of York, waitedupon him, and bade him rise and make haste anddress. Then the King said he would not, for he hadnot yet had his rest;

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Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . Kent, the Kentish menhad rallied to them, and they were marching uponLondon. The King was in the Midlands, whitherhe had gone to face the northern rebels, and couldnot stay their progress ; and these northern rebelsdid all the fighting that was required. The royalforces were defeated at Edgecott; and Edward, whohad not been at that battle, was surrounded at Olney.There George Neville, Archbishop of York, waitedupon him, and bade him rise and make haste anddress. Then the King said he would not, for he hadnot yet had his rest; but the Archbishop, that falseand disloyal priest, said to him a second time, Sire, you must rise and come to see my brother of Warwick, nor do I think that you can refuse me. So the King, 180 -* House of Neville and House of Plantagenet fearing worse might come to him, rose and rode off tomeet his cousin of Warwick. The meeting took place at Coventry.. The Kingwas held prisoner for a month—part of the time atWarwick Castle—though in honourable and comfortable. From an old print. KI.NG EDWARD IV., WHOM THE KING-MAKER FIRST TLACEDUPON THE THRONE AND THEN DEPOSED. condition, and with leave to go hunting under escort.But it was no part of Warwicks plan just then todepose King Edward in favour either of his brotheror of King Henry, who had been captured some timebefore, a wandering fugitive, in the North, and lodgedfor security in the Tower. He was satisfied to exactpardons and impose terms, including a grant to himself i8j Warwick Castle ^ of the office of Chamberlain of South Wales and theright to nominate the governors of sundry castles inthat region. Edward is reported to have been satisfied with thearrangement. The King himself writes one of the Pastonsthat day, hath good language of my Lords of Clarence, Warwick, and York, saying they be his best friends ;but his household have other language, so that whatshall hastily fall I cannot say. It looked, for a little while, as th