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I am but a useless weapon, to be suspended at rest amongst the trophies of Towton in my hall of Middleham." "Return with us," said the Lord of St. John, "and we will make Edward do thee justice, or, one and all, we will abandon a court where knaves and varlets have become mightier than English valour and nobler than Norman birth." "My friends," said the earl, laying his hand on St.
Still men talk, hereabouts, of the golden rule of Earl Warwick; but since you have been, though great in office, powerless in deed, absent in Calais, or idle at Middleham, England hath been but the plaything of the Woodvilles, and the king's ears have been stuffed with flattery as with wool.
The popularity Edward had artfully acquired amongst the captains of Warwick's own troops, on the march to Middleham, now bestead him. Many of them were knights and gentlemen residing in the very districts through which he passed. They did not join him, but they did not oppose.
Vowed, as those warriors were, to the earl, they felt that A MONARCH was amongst them. "What say you, then? We are ripe for glory. Three days will we halt at Middleham, guest to our noble subject." "Three days, sire!" repeated Warwick, in a voice of surprise. "Yes; and this, fair cousin, and ye, lords and gentlemen, is my reason for the delay.
My mother bestowed her at Wilton, whence the creature of the Pope's intruding Abbess has taken upon him to expel her. So I am about to take her to Middleham, where my mother may see to her further bestowal." "We have even now come from Middleham," said the Duchess. "My Lord Duke sent for me, but he looks to you, my lord, to compose the strife between your father and the insolent Percies."
Mary's Abbey at York and was founded by Wyman, steward or dapifer to the Earl of Richmond, about the year 1100, whereas the Franciscans in the town owed their establishment to Radulph Fitz-Ranulph, a lord of Middleham in 1258. The doorway of St. Martin's, with its zigzag mouldings must be part of Wyman's building, but no other traces of it remain.
"Then, in God's name so conclude it!" said the earl hastily. "Give thy sister to the heir of Burgundy, and forgive me if I depart to the castle of Middleham. Yet think well. Henry of Windsor is thy prisoner, but his cause lives in Margaret and his son. There is but one power in Europe that can threaten thee with aid to the Lancastrians. That power is France.
It happened, unfortunately for the king and for Warwick, that Gloucester, whose premature acuteness and sagacity would have the more served both, inasmuch as the views he had formed in regard to Anne would have blended his interest in some degree with that of the Duke of Clarence, and certainly with the object of conciliation between Edward and his minister, it happened, we say, unfortunately, that Gloucester was still absent with the forces employed on the Scottish frontier, whither he had repaired on quitting Middleham, and where his extraordinary military talents found their first brilliant opening; and he was therefore absent from London during all the disgusts he might have removed and the intrigues he might have frustrated.
Vowed, as those warriors were, to the earl, they felt that A MONARCH was amongst them. "What say you, then? We are ripe for glory. Three days will we halt at Middleham, guest to our noble subject." "Three days, sire!" repeated Warwick, in a voice of surprise. "Yes; and this, fair cousin, and ye, lords and gentlemen, is my reason for the delay.
But yonder rise the towers of Middleham. Beloved walls, which sheltered my childhood! and, by holy Paul, a noble pile, which would resist an army, or hold one." While thus conversed the prince and the archbishop, the Earl of Warwick, musing and alone, slowly paced the lofty terrace that crested the battlements of his outer fortifications.
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