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Title: Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, Countess of, 1861-1938
Subjects: Warwick castle
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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), and drewthem up on a hill ; but the French, who were muchworn out, retired into the town, and during the nightthe Earl marched off some of the English going tothe castle of Landon, some to Nemours and else-where. The Earl rejoined the regent in Paris. In 1428, as we gather from the same source, itwas decided that the Earl of Warwick should besiegePontorson, and the Earl of Suffolk should invadeBrittany. Their armies were well provided with allnecessaries. The P2arl of Warwick made the attack inthe usual way, first dragging up his engines before theguns and bombards, which brought the town to sucha state that they were forced to agree to surrender,provided they did not receive succours by a certaindate. These did not arrive, and the fortress was de-livered to the English, who demolished it, and thenreturned into garrisons on the frontiers. Other operations are reported in less detail. In1433 Richard de Beauchamp was in London, wherethe ambassadors of Hue de Lannoi waited on him: 128
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VOL. I. Warwick Castle ^ he received them graciously, though a little moregravely than before. In 1435 his name appearsfirst in a list of the retinue of the Duke of Bedford,where he is described as captain of the city ofMeaulx in Brie, lieutenant of the field in the absenceof the Regent. He returned home, but sailed againon August 29th, 1437, and there, says StowsChronicle :— After the regaining of the towne of Ponthoise,Richard Beauchamp, Earle of Warwike, LieutenantGeneral of France, and of the Dutchy of Normandy,dyed in the Castle of Roan in Normandy, on thelast of April, the yeere of his age 58. And onthe fourth of October next following his corpes washonorably conveied, as well by water as by land, fromRoan in Normandy to Warwike in England, and waslaid with full solemnities in a faire chest made ofstone in the West door of the Colledge of our LadiesChurch, by his noble ancestors, till a chappell by himdevised in his life were made, which chappell foundedon the rocke, and all t

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